Surly's Soap Box

9/28/2005
So You Think You Want a Revolution...?

I've also seen - and I wish I hadn't - that the revolution, when it's carried out seriously and succeeds, brings forms of injustice and oppression even more abominable than the current ones. I've seen those new forms of injustice and oppression in the eyes and the words of the most sincere, hardest working, most loyal revolutionary leaders. They feel themselves messianic saviors, avatars of history; they think they know my interests, my wishes, my needs, better than I do; they don't consult me or listen to me; they've struck off on their own as my representatives, as vanguards in my struggle; they are paternalist tutors; they pre-configure today that future Olympus where they will make all decisions for my well-being and my progress; they'll make the decisions and they'll impose them on me in my name, through fire and blood in my name.

J.M. Briceno Guerrero

I was going to post on the Castro/Chavez/Carter/Jackson/Sheehan connection, but I ran across this quote through the Caracas Chronicles, an excellent commentary on the rise of communist thug Hugo Chaves. His words should ring an alarm to those who would have a socialist government/revolution here in the United States: Be carefull what you ask for.