Tuesday 5 November 2013

the Socialist disease....

The following excerpt is from a letter that Vaclav Havel wrote to the Czech Dictator Husák in April 1975.
It could (should?) have been written to both Gillard and Rudd.

"So far," Havel scolded Husák, "you and your government have chosen the easy way out for yourselves, and the most dangerous road for society: the path of inner decay for the sake of outward appearances; of deadening life for the sake of increasing uniformity; of deepening the spiritual and moral crisis of our society, and ceaselessly degrading human dignity, for the puny sake of protecting your own power."

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