Idealist revolutionaries, though they may talk convincingly about freedom, will inevitably bring about a dictatorship of the few or of the many. They will also create a personal cult and totally destroy every form of freedom. You may have observed this in the French and Russian revolutions. Your ideal, which may come out of the ashes of the present structure, will only be speculative and theoretical and on this speculative utopia, call it what you like, you want to build a new society. This is what all the physical revolutionaries have done. They begin with equality, social justice, the withering of the state, and so on, and end with a tyrannical bureaucracy, insistence on conformity, and the exercise of authority in the name of the state.


From Beginnings of Learning

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