S.D.S
It's funny. Karl Marx had
the right idea. He just chose the
wrong people. The Russians have
as much business attempting to
institute socialist
"Utopia" as they do
trying to fit into a good suit.
It's like putting a saddle on a
cow. Good luck! Better if he had
chosen a more worthy people for
such an experiment in human
socio-political evolution. His
own brethren, the Germans, may
have pulled it off, albeit a bit
stridently. The British could
have put a charming and snobbish
face on it. The very private
Swiss, perhaps. Maybe the
Japanese. But instead, in the
end, he chose the paranoid and
brutalizing Russians, of all
people. So much for good ideas.
That
exercise in abject futility
notwithstanding, this doesn't
diminish my enthusiasm for a
better human condition. Marx felt
the same way, and it led to a
revolution. Robespierre felt the
same way with the same result.
Gandhi. Jesus. Visionaries who
understood that passion of
purpose can change human history,
and it doesn't happen by
accident. It's a calculation.
The
"Battle of Seattle" had
the same passion and clarity of
purpose as did "Kent
State" three decades before.
Then, it was a military conflict.
Today, it's an economic one, and
both stand as stark testimonials
to a desperate need for a better
vision through another good idea.
But so long as we continue to be
governed by those beholden to
greed, corruption, self-interest
and social injustice, then we'll
never realize that better vision,
because no one of the ruling
class will ever come up with a
better idea. It wouldn't be in
their vested interest.
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