From: Eva Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> "democratic guarantees" reflects your "Rousseauistic belief in human
>> perfectibility". What's changed Eva? How can "more of the same" yield
>> anything other than "more of the same" results?
>
>What changed is that now we have an other historical evidence
>- namely, that socialism cannot succeed without democracy,
What we have is historical evidence that yet another hallucination failed.
Jay
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"The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the
proles from bondage. . . . In reality very little was
known about the proles. It was not necessary to know
much. So long as they continued to work and breed,
their other activities were without importance. Left to
themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of
Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that
appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral
pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters,
they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief
blossoming period of beauty and sexual desire, they
married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they
died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work,
the care of home and children, petty quarrels with
neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all,
gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep
them in control was not difficult."
-- George Orwell, 1984
