gun barrel politics (was: Re: Nazis memories)

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At 02:15 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Michael Lorrey wrote:

>Socialism denies the
>concept of Natural Law, and states, as Mao said,"Justice comes out of the
>barrel of a gun".

For some reason, despite my previous wails, Mike keeps misquoting this real-politik observation (which is congenial, I'd have thought, to Libertarians and gun-fanciers). Mousy Dung *actually* said:

`POLITICAL POWER comes from the barrel of a gun'

• that is, however true, noble and virtuous your political ideas, if you don't have the firepower to back them up you're smoke in the breeze. A moment's checking on the Web would confirm this quote. Cf., e.g.,

http://www.albany.edu/~cl3715/quotes.html

Damien Broderick (no fan of the Chairman's)

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