Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Fascinating > > A happy hour has been spent coursing about the internet reading all sorts of > references to this Strauss chap, rest assured that I've reached my own > conclusions. Can't see what all this hoped to achieve? Platt you assert that > Arlo > is presenting a biased view, but who cares? I'm hardly going to just lap it > us as > gospel from some fellow I barely know off the internet. > > Anyhow for what its worth, it strikes me that deliberate social engineering of > this type is a strongly left-wing thing to do, irespective of what your > approach > is trying to achieve, the real divide is between two behaviours: > 1) "attempts to regulate in favour of defined desirable outcome" > and 2) "attempts to de-regulate in favour of freedom" > > Anyone who sets a clear plan for how they will engineer a society towards a > defined end product is a basically a Marxist.
No. There's a world of difference between engineering a society towards tyranny vs. towards individual freedom. Marxists fit the former category. It's the difference between the Russian revolution and the American revolution. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
