Fascism puts Left foot forward 5778ferdie On the contrary, the liberal, J S Mill for example was very worried about the idening of the franchise and the terrible implications he saw in it of "mob rule...
Fascism puts Left foot forward 5779But back to "fascism". The following 'cut-paste' is self explanatory and is a perfect example of govt by 'anyone' who can make 'anyone' seem ' anything...
Fascism puts Left foot forward 5781Dean T That's the Cliffite rather than the Trotskyist claim. They claimed the bureaucracy was a new clbutt. They are third campists, making them anti-Trotskyist A scandalous piece of...
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Yes it is. What it shows is a paradox -- namely, that ideas that rise beyond the demands of mere survival typically come from disaffected sections of the privileged rather than the oppressed clbuttes. It's in the nature of oppression to oppress. It would have been astonishing if people with a life expectancy of about 50 who commonly began long hours of arduous work before they were ten, who had little formal education, who typically worked in conditions that inflicted terrible injuries on them and whose fondest hope was to have aneough of their children survive and marry well enough to support them when their capacity to work inevitably failed could consider anything beyond the thought that they'd been dealt a rough hand by a bunch of rich bastards. Typically, they thought god was punishing them for some sin several generations earlier. One of the few pieces of "property" a working clbutt man had then was his wife and family -- his own personal dynasty -- hence the idea that "a man's home is his castle". Needless to say, this view of the world had horrible implications for the treatment of women and children (who were kind of like the mans' serfs), for other ethnic groups etc.
What it also says is that freedom from labour is a condition for human intellectual and social progress -- for the realisation of every person's journey towards realisation of their full humanity. So long as material scarcity persists, labour is unavoidable and inevitable, and thus what is rational is to strive for that balance which is, as far as it is materially feasible, in favour of leisure rather than labour on as ubiquitous a distribution as possible.
Democracy and freedom are meaningful only to the extent that every person is in an equal position to make rational, considered and informed decisions about their interests. And thus, democracy and freedom positively demand egalitarian policies based on sustainable growth and labor allocation on the basis of actual human need. Because the clbuttes with the principal and immediate interest in such a policy are the workingclbuttes and their allies amongst the rural poor, communism chose for itself the symbol of the hammer and the sickle.
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