[MD] Speaking of intellectuals

Platt Holden pholden at davtv.com
Tue Apr 25 09:23:55 PDT 2006


> [Arlo]
> Orwell himself stated that "Every line of serious work that I have
> written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against
> totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it," he
> wrote in 1946." I can see how that's inconvenient for you. But there it
> is. 

Not inconvenient at all. Obvious Orwell's "understanding" of socialism 
and mine differ. What Orwell failed to see was that socialism 
inevitably leads to tyranny, as explained by F. A. Hayek in his 
classic, "The Road to Serfdom."

Platt




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