That ol' Two-Minutes of Hate 's got some staying power. Goldstein, Reaganstein, Bushstein, now we await for PP to set out the next "stein"
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Planet Pepe's 1984, A Quarter Century Later
That ol' Two-Minutes of Hate 's got some staying power. Goldstein, Reaganstein, Bushstein, now we await for PP to set out the next "stein"
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Of course, the original Goldstein was Trotsky. And Orwell didn't think there was much difference between Stalin and Trotsky -- both Commies:
The fact that Trotskyists are everywhere a persecuted minority, and that the accusation usually made against them, i. e. of collaborating with the Fascists, is obviously false, creates an impression that Trotskyism is intellectually and morally superior to Communism; but it is doubtful whether there is much difference. The most typical Trotskyists, in any case, are ex-Communists, and no one arrives at Trotskyism except via one of the left-wing movements. No Communist, unless tethered to his party by years of habit, is secure against a sudden lapse into Trotskyism. The opposite process does not seem to happen equally often, though there is no clear reason why it should not.
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