Socialism Explained

Another winner from Battlefield315:



We started a new book today. Robert Conquest's 2005 book, The Dragons of Expecttions, Reality and Delusion in the Course of History. A quote jumped out at us on page 6:

There are minds that, having risen beyond primitive, unthinking orthodoxies, often merely turn to a rejection of the traditional. Whoever has made this apparent advance is convinced that he or she has reached a superior condition. Minds that have improved their knowledge and remained open to more have indeed progressed. But we often find those who have achieved a critical attitude to the traditional have also adopted a largely, or wholly, uncritical attitude to untried, or even failed, alternatives whose attraction is verbal rather than real.