Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:43:55 +0200
From: Ilan Shalif <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: AUT: Perplexing Ilan


Just a bit of wisdom from Asia.
A great Chinese poet, who was also a great military expert of
geurila strategy and tactics... who also new one thing or two
learned from a long history of social struggles, wrote an article
relevant to the subject we floated around.

The article printed 1957 is labeled "on the correct handling of contradictions
among the people". It explaned why the leadership of the winning
revolution is bound to betray it. Though he was very wise, he
was not bold enough to do the obvious - fighting to dstroy
the authoritarian party before it was too late.

Though he did not use the concept of authoritarianism, he describe
the result of people in authority given the authority by the masses
who accept the hyerarchical social order.

For people who did not guess the name of this person, a google.com
will reveal it.

Surprise surprise, but 9 years later (1966), while I read it and translated
for distribution, I started the final stage of "converting" to the libertarian
communism.
Ilan




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