Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Churchill on Socialism

         Churchill said, “Socialist policy is abhorrent to the idea of freedom.  It is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.  No socialist government could afford to allow free sharp expressions of discontent.  It cannot succeed without a vast bureaucracies of civil servants who are no longer civil and no longer servants.”   
       He did not believe that any administrative class, however educated, could be trusted with the kind of power that he feared it would gather, the kind that the doctrines of socialism and scientific historicism justified and required. The members of that class would still be human, and men are not angels.

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