To me the word freedom has not the value of a starting-point, but of an actual goal to be striven for. The word order designates the starting-point. It is only on order that freedom can be based. Without order as a foundation the cry for freedom is nothing more than the endeavour of some party or other for an end it has in view. When actually carried out in practice, that cry for freedom will inevitably express itself in tyranny. At all times and in all situations I was a man of order, yet my endeavour was always for true and not for pretended liberty.Klemens von Metternich: fighting for order in the chaos of the Austrian Empire.
One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Fighting for order in the Chaos
If you want further evidence that the Dredd idea about order is a reactionary one, consider this great statement of principle from famous reactionary Klemens von Metternich.
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