Two Visions for Europe

…There has been a fight between the advocates of two different ideals from the beginning of the European Union. Which stance should it adopt: the classical liberal vision, or the socialist vision of Europe? The introduction of the Euro has played a key role in the strategies of these two visions. In order to understand the tragedy of the Euro and its history, it is important to be familiar with these two diverging, and underlying visions and tensions that have come to the fore in the face of a single currency.

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L’histoire falsifée du XIXème siècle

…Nous semblons oublier que, aussi pénible qu’il fut; le passage à l’usine représentait pour beaucoup d’ouvriers de l’époque, même des femmes et des enfants, une véritable libération par rapport aux conditions de vie infernales qui étaient le lot des journaliers agricoles ou des travailleurs à domicile de la période préindustirelle dont aujourd’hui nous idéalisons la situation, avec nos yeux d’hommes du XXème siècle (sans parler des immigrants irlandais échappant à la grande famine).

Henri Lepage

Tyranny in a small state world

“…neither the problems of war nor those relating to the purely internal criminality of societies disappear in a small-state world; they are merely reduced to bearable proportions. Instead of hopelessly trying to blow up man’s limited talents to a magnitude that could cope with hugeness, hugeness is cut down to a size where it can be managed even with man’s limited talents. In miniature, problems lose both their terror and significance, which is all that society can ever hope for. Our choice seems therefore not between crime and virtue but between big crime and small crime; not between war and peace, but between great wars and little wars, between indivisible total and divisible local wars.

But not only the problems of war or crime become soluble on a small scale. Every vice shrinks in significance with the shrinking size of the social unit in which it develops. This is particularly true of a social misery which seems to many as unwelcome as war itself. Tyranny!

There is nothing in the constitution of men or states that can prevent the rise of dictators, fascist or otherwise. Power maniacs exist everywhere, and every community will at some time or other pass through a phase of tyranny. The only difference lies in the degree of tyrannical government which, in turn, depends once more on the size and power of the countries falling victim to it.

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Identidad Asesina

…la identidad de una persona está constituida por infinidad de elementos que evidentemente no se limitan a los que figuran en los registros oficiales.

La gran mayoría de la gente, desde luego, pertenece a una gran tradición religiosa; a una nación, y en ocasiones a dos; a un grupo étnico o lingüístico; a una familia más o menos extensa; a una profesión; a una institución; a un determinado ámbito social….

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