It's not a necessity, it's a categorical imperative.
Rosseau explicitly stated that a reign of terror to coerce the rest of the population into compliance with "The General Will" is a moral good. From their perspective, atrocities are moral.
It's funny, isn't it, how this "General Will" always seems to align itself with communists?
Remarkably consistent, that, isn't it?
Mind you, it's not like the rest of communist literature isn't "Yeah, it's perfectly fine to genocide your enemies - if they didn't deserve it, they'd have submitted to you already!"
Rousseau did something weird and said, "well, if there's one vote and it wins 50.0000001% of the vote, then that is The General Will, and therefore that's moral to use terror."
Why one vote is iron clad, I have no idea. He's kind of a lunatic.
well, if there's one vote and it wins 50.0000001% of the vote, then that is The General Will, and therefore that's moral to use terror.
Interesting. You know more Rosseau than I do, I think, do you know how he rationalises plugging along with the subversion when communism inevitably doesn't win the necessary votes?
He didn't really care what won as a policy, though he always assumed that his concept of Liberalism would win all elections. His primary point was that once an election established what The General Will was, that was it, and it wasn't up for discussion. Subversion actually isn't tolerated.
You lose that election, you succumb to The General Will, or you starve until you do.
It's not a necessity, it's a categorical imperative.
Rosseau explicitly stated that a reign of terror to coerce the rest of the population into compliance with "The General Will" is a moral good. From their perspective, atrocities are moral.
It's funny, isn't it, how this "General Will" always seems to align itself with communists?
Remarkably consistent, that, isn't it?
Mind you, it's not like the rest of communist literature isn't "Yeah, it's perfectly fine to genocide your enemies - if they didn't deserve it, they'd have submitted to you already!"
Pretty much.
Rousseau did something weird and said, "well, if there's one vote and it wins 50.0000001% of the vote, then that is The General Will, and therefore that's moral to use terror."
Why one vote is iron clad, I have no idea. He's kind of a lunatic.
Interesting. You know more Rosseau than I do, I think, do you know how he rationalises plugging along with the subversion when communism inevitably doesn't win the necessary votes?
Communism was invented long after he was dead.
He didn't really care what won as a policy, though he always assumed that his concept of Liberalism would win all elections. His primary point was that once an election established what The General Will was, that was it, and it wasn't up for discussion. Subversion actually isn't tolerated.
You lose that election, you succumb to The General Will, or you starve until you do.