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If history is to be our guide , time and time again we see that passions and ideas cannot be snuffed out by prosecution . True , he does not lay as much stress on the importance of maintaining a plurality of political parties , freedom of speech and of the press , etc ., as democratic socialists would wish to do today ; but he did not yet know as many instances as we do of the ease with which these things may be snuffed out .