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...prison only sharpened Djilas' opposition to the abuses of the Communist system. In his notable book, The New Class, smuggled out to Western publishers, Djilas wrote: "The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." As chief controller of the new class, Tito was forced to take the remark personally; his court ordered seven more years added to Djilas' sentence...
...lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...
Reason would undoubtedly help man cope with the bomb, but the human situation is complicated by another monstrous threat-totalitarian rule, as embodied by Russia: "By one, we lose life; by the other, a life that is worth living." The confrontation of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., each bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion...
Among the Dangs, by George P. Elliott. Whether the author tells of a weird anthropological expedition or a totalitarian solution to the race problem, his excellent short stories have this in common: they were not written to soothe...
Among the Dangs, by George P. Elliott. Whether the author tells of a weird anthropological expedition or a totalitarian solution to the race problem, his excellent short stories have this in common: they were not written to soothe...