And a cite would please.
2007-12-04
15:33:28
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claytr0n
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Why does it matter if it's for a class? I live in the real world, and the facts matter to me.
2007-12-04
15:45:11 ·
update #1
A crucial totalitarian principle is that the state is identified with the people, the culture, the society. For those who adopt that principle, criticism of the state is hatred of the country. In the old Soviet Union, for example, dissidents were condemned as “anti-Soviet” or “haters of Russia,” because they condemned policies of the Holy State. We, however, rightly regarded them as the people most dedicated to the welfare of the Russian people. The concept has biblical origins. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned the Prophet Elijah as a hater of Israel because he denounced the crimes of the evil king, who, like all totalitarians, identified state power—himself—with the society and people.
Where there is a democratic culture, such a notion would be ridiculed.
2007-12-04
17:40:57 ·
update #2