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Re: Powerlessness Corrupts



me:
>  ... the CP are encouraged to think in
> totally black and white terms. Those organizations themselves tended to
> think in black/white terms.

Charles:
> What's your argument for this claim ?

me:
my experience.

Charles:
Are you saying you think in more subtle terms than the CP ?

I'd like to.

By "black
and white" you mean overly simplistic ?

what else could I mean?

--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal



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