Written history is mostly war, and the surest way to be remembered is to start one.
Dec 072018
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Nov 152018
Democracy dies at scale.
Nov 022018
State terror denotes resistance: eventually it can be dispensed with.
Nov 012018
The rulers, the ruled, and the theoreticians of rule alike always interest themselves more in who shall rule than how.
Oct 302018
Orthodoxy’s palace guard paints and probably sees itself as an embattled and powerless minority, defending unpopular truths without fear or favor.
Oct 182018
There are always things you can’t say. Repression is measured by how many obviously true things you can’t say.
Oct 162018
Fascism is often confused with a shave, haircut, and shoeshine.
Oct 082018
“Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” would be a fine description of communism except that it is atheistic, and thus the dead go unsorted.
Oct 052018
High civilizations are lost not in battle but by forfeit.
Sep 202018
Modern democracy has nearly perfected itself; that the people can still occasionally make their wishes known remains its one flaw.