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serious student of history of ideas in the West will deny that
liberalism is anti-power and anti-state in its origins and essence.
Its concern is the mythical individual torn out of the social
fabric. While it could, in the name of that nonexistent individual,
help legitimize private greed and economic growth as an
offshoot of that greed, socialism of whatever variety must
inevitably deny it that role.
Socialism too is anti-state in its
origins and essence. It is a child of Utopianism and a twin brother
of anarchism which liberalism as the philosophic foundation of
capitalism must, in its turn, seek to frustrate. The Marxist concept
of dictatorship of the proletariat would have remained the
meaningless prattle it was if Lenin had not conceived of and built
an army of professional revolutionaries and subordinated that army
called the Communist Party to his will. This was a case of total
inversion of the original idea. The kind of concentration of power
is negation of power and not its fulfillment
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