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20288 | You can't condemn violent revolution without assessing the evils it prevents [Singer] |
Full Idea: It would be one-sided to say that violent revolution is always absolutely wrong, without taking account of the evils that the revolutionaries are trying to stop. | |
From: Peter Singer (Practical Ethics [1979], 09) | |
A reaction: This seems like common sense, but there are plenty of right-wing authoritarians who would claim that stable authority has priority over all social wrongs. I think that view is mistaken. But the problem is, how to know the future? |
21997 | In Marxism the state will be superseded [Singer] |
Full Idea: It is a famous Marxist doctrine that the state will be superseded. | |
From: Peter Singer (Marx [1980], 9) | |
A reaction: Why is that final state communism rather than anarchism? |