The Act in its final form represented a turning point in the emergence of disabled people from the shadows of neglect and indifference, and was the foundation stone of Alf's subsequent parliamentary career.

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Thus primitive communism is the Garden of Eden, the emergence of private property and the class system is the fall, the final gasps of capitalism are the last days, the proletariat are the chosen people and the socialist revolution is the second coming and the New Jerusalem.

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