>>84666
Hi Satan.
...also, one of the central problems, not sufficiently often brought up, I think, with authoritarian states generally is that they have a tendency to regard their citizens as identical, interchangeable, fungible, expendable units of economic consumption and production. This is true whether the government in question purports to be Leftist, Rightist, or Third Positionist.
"After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers’ Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had furfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled effurts. Would it not be easier
In that case fur the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"
Berthold Brecht was a degenerate but this nasty little epigram redeems him completely in my eyes. When you wish fur a State that will make the trains run on time, be careful. You just might get it.