PoliticalChic
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Rousseau, as typical of the Left, reverses the actual meaning of words.
15. “Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s ‘democratic centralism’. Laws made under the General Will must, by definition, have moral authority. ‘The people making laws for it- self cannot be unjust.’ ‘The General Will is always righteous.’ Moreover, provided the State is ‘well-intentioned’ (i.e., its long-term objectives are desirable) interpretation of the General Will can safely be left to the leaders since ‘they know well that the General Will always favours the decision most conducive to the public interest.’ Hence any individual who finds himself in opposition to the General Will is in error…
Rousseau’s state is not merely authoritarian: it is also totalitarian, since it orders every aspect of human activity, thought included….This procedure demanded total submission.
You must, therefore, treat citizens as children and control their upbringing and thoughts, planting ‘the social law in the bottom of their hearts’.”
Paul Johnson
Hence, the mission statement of government school.
'In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.”
Himmelfarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.
BTW.....Hillary Clinton wrote something very similar to that in her college thesis.
So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil" and should be dealt with as a wild beast.
15. “Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s ‘democratic centralism’. Laws made under the General Will must, by definition, have moral authority. ‘The people making laws for it- self cannot be unjust.’ ‘The General Will is always righteous.’ Moreover, provided the State is ‘well-intentioned’ (i.e., its long-term objectives are desirable) interpretation of the General Will can safely be left to the leaders since ‘they know well that the General Will always favours the decision most conducive to the public interest.’ Hence any individual who finds himself in opposition to the General Will is in error…
Rousseau’s state is not merely authoritarian: it is also totalitarian, since it orders every aspect of human activity, thought included….This procedure demanded total submission.
You must, therefore, treat citizens as children and control their upbringing and thoughts, planting ‘the social law in the bottom of their hearts’.”
Paul Johnson
Hence, the mission statement of government school.
'In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.”
Himmelfarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.
BTW.....Hillary Clinton wrote something very similar to that in her college thesis.
So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil" and should be dealt with as a wild beast.