On dictatorship.

... On dictatorship. Having been commissioned by Mr Alderson to make some sort of attempt to give the magazine a somewhat left wing feel, I've decided to write about a topic to which the majority of readers know something about and can thus relate to it. But then I decided against it... Living in 21st century Western Europe, in relative harmony and peace, with guarantees of freedom of speech, worship and body art, and more or less free from fear of big brother, one is perhaps understandably distant from the issue of dictatorship. When the average self-acclaimed intellectual is put to question on the issue, they will typically throw up clichés advocating democracy, slating totalitarianism and somewhat mention human rights if they are really liberal. It has always intrigued me that Stalin always gets brought up first in these deliberations as opposed to Hitler. Westerners view Stalin as a larger than life

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