LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Said, or as they say “sang,” the late Rudyard Kipling in a poem called
“The Peace of Dives,” or dives.
Who grindest for thy greed
Men’s belly pinch and need.
What hope have you in a Russian invasion of Romania and Finland?
I hear your Sunday parsons howling to Christ. It is unconvincing, YOU
know, at least many of you know as well and better than I do, what the
Soviet system has been for the past 20 years. For yourselves you do not
believe in the communal ownership of gardens, bathtubs, a woman, you
like a bit of promiscuity, but you don’t run to the communal system.
You had a decent proportion of communal ownership of pasturage;
village commons, common lands, and you would do well to get back to
it, 150 ducal filchings, somewhat tangled skein, but you could untangle
it. He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
enemy from oppression. Tom Paine said it and died only partially
honored. I repeat that, quote: “He who would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.” You don’t appear
to want to put that in practice. You do NOT fight for world freedom, you
are stampeded. You, some of you, had dislikes, quite proper dislikes,
dislikes of being oppressed; and a great laziness, a very great laziness,
especially in the head.
Even Lenin saw that the “easiest way to debauch the capitalist system is
to debauch its currency.” No, you don’t exactly want the capitalist
system either. Especially if it is to be somebody else’s capitalist system,
with you vainly trying to get back to the udders. And so this is the new
opposition, the Commonwealth Party. [It] don’t seem to have got to your
microphones, not at the moments I have unhooked a receiver. It is said to
be of Communist tendencies. That is suspicious, considering the