To be represented is the smallest aspiration.
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?
Progressive mores, which in the name of equality must be preached to and adopted by all, are mildly toxic to about a tenth of the population, crippling to two-thirds, and potentially fatal to the rest. For a few grifters they make a lucrative career.
The savage’s hatred of the civilized man does little harm, unless abetted by the civilized man’s hatred of himself.
Leninism is not communist any more than Catholicism is Christian: they are programs for the respective containment of communism and Christianity.
Dullness is so prevalent in high places that it has come to be regarded as an obligation.
There are worse ways to judge a government than if the trains run on time.
Written history is mostly war, and the surest way to be remembered is to start one.
Democracy dies at scale.
State terror denotes resistance: eventually it can be dispensed with.
The rulers, the ruled, and the theoreticians of rule alike always interest themselves more in who shall rule than how.