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Monday, August 30, 2010

Power corrupts!

It looks like the Democrats are becoming the Republicans. Isiah Berlin's analysis of the corruption of power as he wrote Karl Marx's biography:

'We believe power corrupts those who wield it as much as those who are forced to obey it. Under its corrosive influence, some become greedy and ambitious tyrants, exploiting society in their own interest, or in that of their class, while others are turned into abject slaves.'

Read a short synopsis of 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell here:

Animal Farm

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