QUOTE: Socialism in an Age of Waiting:
"That sums up the “anti-war” crowd in just 24 words ... Nevertheless, one thing can be said in Dyke’s favour: his motives are utterly transparent, probably because he’s too stupid to know how to disguise them. His amour propre has been severely dented and, unlike the more sophisticated bullshitters in the “anti-war” crowd (pick your own examples - there are all too many of them), he doesn’t care who knows it. Contrast the behaviour of the Respect Coalition, now boasting, insanely enough, about their “success” in splitting the Labour vote and helping a Tory to take a council seat in Tower Hamlets, for the first time in decades, while carefully avoiding mentioning the fact that their own candidate for the seat explicitly supported Saddam Hussein in his struggle to avoid being overthrown. Displaying honest stupidity in order to sell your memoirs is at least marginally less disgusting than deploying outright dishonesty in order to win votes and aid Michael Howard. Then again, what other use has the ultra-left ever had but to support the forces of reaction while pretending to be in favour of progress?"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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