Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

July 20, 2012

Amersoc: Welcome to serfdom



In Orwell's masterpiece, 1984, the interrogator of Winston Smith explains the goals of Ingsoc (English Socialism, i.e. Marxism): 


"Power is not a mean, it is an end.  One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.  The object of persecution is persecution.  The object of torture is torture.  The object of power is power."

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