Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Hellen Keller, Thinking on the Margin
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” – Helen Keller
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Not suprising to me.
Helen Keller, George Orwell, and even - so I read - Albert Einstein in his later years, were so-called "democratic socialists" - i.e. they rejected "totalitarian" socialisms (such as those in Orwell's 1984; in real life, Hitler's National Socialism, or Soviet-style communism), but favored "benevolent," democratic socialism.
To such "democratic socialists," it was possible and preferable to merge a command economy with political freedom.
Of course, as I am sure you are aware, liberals (real ones) from Ludwig von Mises (see Socialism) to F.A. Hayek (see The Road to Serfdom) to Milton Friedman (see Capitalism and Freedom) have demonstrated the impossibility of this.
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