Like The Phoenix, Socialism Is Reborn From

Once We Realize That The Strangers Are Here Forever And Won't Go Away, Then, Like Husband And Wife In The Old-style Marriage, We Would Try To Find A Way Of Living Together Peacefully And With Mutual Benefit. The Sooner We Understand That In A Globalized World The Diasporic Nature Of Cohabitation Is Never Likely To End, That It Will Always Be With Us, I Believe Such Modus Vivendi Will Be Found.

You Cannot Have A Cake And Eat It Too. Either You Eat It, Or You Have It.

The Consumerist Culture Insists That Swearing Eternal Loyalty To Anything And Anybody Is Imprudent, Since In This World New Glittering Opportunities Crop Up Daily.

If You Look Back On The History Of The 20th Century, The 19th Century Or Even To The Ancien Régime Of The 18th, You Will See That First People Rebelled Against The Order Of The Things Because Of Lack Of Liberty, And Demanded More Freedom. And When They Got More Freedom, They Got Frightened, And They Desired More Security For A Change. After A While, They Started Complaining, Although More Secure, They Also Become More Dependent And Rule-bound.

There Were No "unemployed" In The Impoverished Polish Countryside Before The Second World War. Not A Single Unemployed. Every Child That Was Born In The Peasant Family Had His Room At The Table And His Job In The Field, Stable Or Pigsty... If There Was Not Enough Food, Everybody Got Less. If Food Was Plentiful, Everybody Ate Better. In Such A Setting, We May Say, The Problem Of Security Couldn't Even Arise... One Was Born With Life-long Rights; The Only Thing That One Could Not Do Was To Change Them. A Setting Good On The Side Of Security, Though Bad On The Side Of Freedom.