Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about...
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoReally, the thing that people fear is authoritarianism. And it can happen in any government so long as power is consolidated.
Power corrupts.
Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about...
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoReally, the thing that people fear is authoritarianism. And it can happen in any government so long as power is consolidated.
Power corrupts.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I like this take on it:
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
– Frank Herbert