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Old 04-28-19, 03:16 AM   #9812
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Originally Posted by ikalugin View Post
Left authoritarianism exists.
Indeed it does, in many different facets. From the military dictatorship in Venezuela to the left-leaning opinion dictate of media, politics and civil society in Germany that rules out and even sanctions any differing view or opinion that does oppose the mandatory consenus: it looks different, but its all symptoms of one and the same root evil. When consensus becomes mandatory (or in modern plain Merkel-German: "alternativlos/without any alternative") and gets enforced in totality, what is left then is tyranny.

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Originally Posted by Alexis de Tocqueville


"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

"Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they will withhold them, and if you seek only their esteem, they will feign to refuse even that. You will remain among men, but you will forfeit your rights to humanity. When you approach your fellow creatures, they will shun you as one who is impure. And even those who believe in your innocence will abandon you, lest they, too, be shunned in turn. Go in peace, I will not take your life, but the life I leave you with is worse than death."
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