Chris Hedges Quote
The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is a rough measure of the model’s validity. That the Soviet Union had to use so much coercion undermined the credibility of communism as a model of reality, he said. It is perhaps symptomatic that the USA, a society that elevates freedom to the highest position among its values, is also the one that has one of the very largest penal systems in the world relative to its population. It also inflicts violence all over the world. It tolerates a great deal of gun violence, and a health service that excludes large numbers of people.
Chris Hedges
The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is a rough measure of the model’s validity. That the Soviet Union had to use so much coercion undermined the credibility of communism as a model of reality, he said. It is perhaps symptomatic that the USA, a society that elevates freedom to the highest position among its values, is also the one that has one of the very largest penal systems in the world relative to its population. It also inflicts violence all over the world. It tolerates a great deal of gun violence, and a health service that excludes large numbers of people.
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