In Arthur Koestler's masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, his next-door cellmate in the Russian prison constantly taps out the message - 'Arise Ye Wretched Of The Earth'. Maybe that is what is happening with many of the awakenings across the globe. A kind of collective rage against hopelessness, greed, venality, squalour and political cynicism. Tune in to the protests across the world here.
Darkness At Noon was an expose of Stalinism and the faked show trials and purges of the 1930's. It was written and published at a time when the socalist/communists of the West refused to believe what we later discovered was in fact happening under Stalin. Hitler was made the boogy-man when in fact the communists made Hitler look like a Sunday school teacher. The Revolution became it's own worst enemy. Those who forget/ignore the past are doomed to repeat it.
ReplyDeleteCan't disagree with any of that.
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