Samizdata auto-critique

November 13, 2009 at 5:56 pm (Quotations) (, , , )

Over at Samizdata, the UK’s favourite libertarian gated community, Paul Marks–finding time between predicting the financial crisis, alerting the world to Obama’s incipient Marxism (thanks Paul!), and explaining why WH Smith is threatening our liberty–engages in 检讨jiǎntǎo, or Maoist self-criticism:

The enemy do not try and refute our arguments, they just sneer.

Quite.

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On the Origins of Political Violence

October 20, 2009 at 11:00 am (Quotations) (, , )

The first origins of all social processes of any importance should be sought in the internal constitution of the social group.

Durkheim

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