“Under Individualism people will be quite natural and absolutely unselfish, and will know the meanings of the words, and realise them in their free, beautiful lives. Nor will men be egotistic as they are now. For the egotist is he who makes claims upon others, and the Individualist will not desire to do that. It will not give him pleasure. When man has realised Individualism, he will also realise sympathy and exercise it freely and spontaneously. Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom. The wider sympathy is, of course, the more difficult. It requires more unselfishness. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature – it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist – to sympathise with a friend's success. In the modern stress of competition and struggle for place, such sympathy is naturally rare, and is also very much stifled by the immoral ideal of uniformity of type and conformity to rule which is so prevalent everywhere, and is perhaps most obnoxious in England.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“Sympathy with pain there will, of course, always be. It is one of the first instincts of man. The animals which are individual, the higher animals that is to say, share it with us. But it must he remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better able to endure evil, but the evil remains. Sympathy with consumption does not cure consumption; that is what Science does. And when Socialism has solved the problem of poverty, and Science solved the problem of disease, the area of the sentimentalists will be lessened, and the sympathy of man will be large, healthy, and spontaneous. Man will have joy in the contemplation of the joyous lives of others.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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”Bolshevism, embodying the ideal of a centralising state, has shown itself as the deadly enemy of the free spirit of revolutionary toilers.
Resorting to unprecedented measures, it has sabotaged the development of revolution and besmirched the honor of its finest aspect.
Successfully disguised, it concealed it's real face from the gaze of the toilers, passing itself off as the champion of their interests."
— Nestor Makhno, The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks
Resorting to unprecedented measures, it has sabotaged the development of revolution and besmirched the honor of its finest aspect.
Successfully disguised, it concealed it's real face from the gaze of the toilers, passing itself off as the champion of their interests."
— Nestor Makhno, The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks
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