Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics

[sufi]

1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
3. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

 

[luka]

dont understand any of that can you explain it to me?

 

[sufi]

probably not but maybe someone else can

RC did a history of Russia under Stalin, and sounds like he has a usefully paranoid counterintuitive perspective to shed light on our current political plights

 

[luka]

i know craner likes him cos hes anti-commie and craner hates commies