I'm taken with old Lord Acton's aphorism about a world in which our individualistic and distorted notions of power rule: 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
An oldie, but a goodie.
Cheers, Rob (a 'liberal' because he actually thinks 'all power to the Soviets' would have been a good idea ... )
>The habit of keeping a leader in charge until his death coupled with the
>one party system, seems to distance progressively the leadership from the
>masses. It´s the system fault. When a leader lives surrounded by running
>dogs
>that tells him only what he want, then there is a complete break up with
>reality. Those examples of degeneration were more evident in Stalin´s USSR,
>Ceuacescu´s Rumania and Hoxhas´s Albania. In other socialist countries the
>process is less dramatic, but also happened. The trouble with the one party
>system is that it becomes very attractive for opportunists in search of
>social ascension. I remember a broacast interview with a right wing
>Bulgarian
>politician who had been member of the CP. When questioned on this he told
>the
>reporter that "there is a diference between CP´s in west and in our
>countries,
>while the Western parties affiliated are communists, the Eastern Europeans
>CP´s are the key to social ascension". Well, with such communists, the
>collapse
>o communism is no surprise.
>I can wonder how this is this degeneration process by paying attention to
>the
>behavior of my country´s president, a former marxist intelectual, who turned
>to right wing and was re-elected for a 4 year term. It´s horrible to see
>that
>his cynism towards the social question is achieving sttagering levels. Last
>week, a landless peasant died in a confrontation with the police and the
>president said that his dead was and advise to those agitator´s...And he´ve
>remained only 5 years in power. What could happen in a 30 year mandate?
>We socialists, should pay more attention to those matters of human nature in
>order to build a better political system.