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To: Yaacov who wrote (15051)	10/23/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

>>>Well, here you have this love affair with Baron Ungaren-Sternberg who wants you sent back to Nakhodka>>>> Given the choice of words "Love Affair" as opposed to "Hate Affair" that you have <gg>...I plead guilty...:) "What bound the Finance Minister to the Jewish pedlar? The same blood? Stuff and nonsense! A common faith? Pooh! Nothing was in common between the two, except one thing: the hatred that raged against the great Jews as against the small" (from incomparable Lion Feuchtwanger's Jew Suss) "In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself." Albert Einstein

To: Yaacov who wrote (15051)	10/25/1999 5:42:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

How many times shall I have to remind you of it?? SI's discussion forums are no Knesset!! Plurality is the Internet's name of the game.... Hopefully, I've got medicine for you: THE AUTHORITARIAN CATECHISM One problem that will become more prevalent in the coming years is many ex-Communists, knowing that their tired ideologies have shown their wear and that the public won't follow them, are now flocking to anarchism, the "untried idea" of socialism, in hopes of garnering followers for the next Big Revolution. In a way, they resemble the "anarcho-"capitalists in that they're trying to repackage old ideas in new wrappers in hopes that doing so will fool folks and give them new legitimacy they certainly don't deserve. This idea is related to what I was talking about earlier with deductive and inductive anarchists. See, so long as anarchism is confined simply to words and theory, its name will be abused. Only if the methodology of anarchism itself is undertaken will we even be close to attaining anarchism in reality. In that spirit, I'm writing an "authoritarian catechism" -- a handy (and loosely satiric) guide for authoritarians for your benefit, so you can spot would-be authoritarians in your ranks and take precautions against them. The rule of thumb is if you do the opposite of this catechism day to day, you'll be far closer to anarchism than these folks pretend to be. Authoritarians are basically people with low self-images. They react to their own negative self-image by focusing on externalities. They aggressively throw their weight around in an effort to disprove what they already know -- that they're stunted, empty people. All the greatest autocrats of this century: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Yaacov, Pol Pot, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and others -- were ruthless, paranoid individuals who validated their low self-images through relentless pursuit and acquisition of power. There are countless more out there, too. [...] radio4all.org