Anticommunism Web Site (re: anticommunism

[kelley]

At 07:10 PM 7/12/00 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>kelley wrote:
>
>>hmmm.  is this along the lines of the thatcher quote:  society doesn't 
>>exist?  sorry for way over quota but this is bugging crap outta 
>>me.  probably b/c i have a deadline.
>
>Not Maggie's quote: "There is no such thing as society. There are 
>individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do 
>anything except through people, and people must look after themselves. 
>It's our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our 
>neighbour." (Margaret Thatcher,'Womens Own', 31 October 1987.) As I 
>remember my conservative ideology, it's thought that liberals and Marxists 
>share a belief in the perfectability of human society - that humans make 
>their own history, and therefore they can make it better. To which the 
>troglodyte, I mean conservative responds: hubris! We must accept our human 
>limits and acknowledge that God and/or Nature dictate(s) the conditions of 
>our lives, and that any attempt to improve human society (outside the 
>beauties of the market, of course) will lead inevitably to the Gulag.
>
>Doug

jesus.  now i *really* know why i had to read joseph de maistre for my 
hisotry/development of social theory course.  shite.  and i'm dealing with 
one of them right now at another list.  criminy.  this is so damn 
ancient?  this is so damn confused when i think of other positions that 
cons take

that said, i think there's some truth to the need to question "human 
perfectibility" thesis.  ahhhh.  fond memories of social theory course and 
my soc professors thesis about sociology's attempt to weave a path b/t the 
cons and the libs of the time.  i have some really cool doodles i drew 
during those lectures.

kelley