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1. Artfldgr Says:
   December 20th, 2010 at 11:51 am

   I am currently reading “reds”

   as well as
   “Liberty Under the Soviets”
   by Rodger Baldwin (founder of the ACLU)
   http://www.questia.com/read/231256

   i would suppose that amazon has both…

   The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental. When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever. Dictatorship is the obvious means in a world
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   of enemies at home and abroad. I dislike it in principle as dangerous to its own objects. But the Soviet Union has already created liberties far greater than exist elsewhere in the world. . . . [There] I saw . . . fresh, vigorous expressions of free living by workers and peasants all over the land. And further, no champion of a socialist society could fail to see that some suppression was necessary to achieve it. It could not all be done by persuasion. . . . [I]f American champions of civil liberty could all think in terms of economic freedom as the goal of their labors, they too would accept “workers’ democracy” as far superior to what the capitalist world offers to any but a small minority. Yes, and they would accept – regretfully, of course – the necessity of dictatorship while the job of reorganizing society on a socialist basis is being done.

   Baldwin

   from another work Returning to Eden
   [which has been updated to "the war has begun"]

   Utopian socialism — by which I mean chiefly the idea that human welfare can be divorced from economic and biological reality — has for so long been a part of the political landscape of the West that most people have accepted it as the cultural embodiment of an idea that is fundamental to the world. In fact, it is just so much inherited wishful thinking and confabulated flapdoodle, sewn together from fragments of ancient mythology, chiefly those relating to the Eden of the Hebrew Bible and its antecedents and descendants. While its roots are ancient, a program that recognizably constitutes a form of modern socialism was first assembled by the Sozzinis of sixteenth century Italy, whose ethic became known as “Socinianism” and set the stage for the utopian aspects of the Enlightenment.

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