"Only after one understands how freedom and rights are being suppressed by the managers of imperial states -- even as they preach peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule to their citizens to maintain their beliefs in the morality of their society, and thus assure the continued support of the masses for inflicting such violence upon the world -- can one write honest history. If one does not understand that process, one is almost certain to write a history in which, unbeknownst to the author, the background and documentation have been carefully created to give Managers of State the freedom to suppress other people's rights and transfer their wealth to the imperial center through unequal trades."
-- J.W. Smith, Economic Democracy; The Political Struggle for the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2000), p.95 |
