Oppression and Liberty

The fundamental idea of the book is the power of the bureaucracy.

inspired by that force of mind and spirit that is found only among the proletariat,

the ideal of a society governed in the economic and political sphere by co-operation between the workers now inspires scarcely a single mass movement,

But the most significant movement of this kind is that technocratic movement which is said in a short space of time to have spread over the whole of the United States. We know that it advocates, within the limits of a closed national economy, the abolition of competition and markets and an economic dictatorship exercised in sovereign fashion by tec

He was not at all concerned with seeing clearly into his own thought, but solely with maintaining intact the philosophical traditions on which the Party lived. Such a method of thought is not that of a free man.

enchanting picture of a society in which, with the abolition of the market, technicians would find themselves all-powerful, and would use their power in such a way as to give to all the maximum leisure and comfort possible.

No workers’ State has ever yet existed on the earth’s surface, except for a few weeks in Paris in 1871, and perhaps for a few months in Russia in 1917 and 1918.

The entire works of Marx are permeated with a spirit incompatible with the vulgar materialism of Engels and Lenin. He never regards man as being a mere part of nature, but always as being at the same time, owing to the fact that he exercises a free activity, an antagonistic term vis-à-vis nature.

Socialism will not even be conceivable as long as science has not been stripped of its mystery.