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1、更多好书请点击www.uus8.org"TheAltruistinPolitics"TheAltruistinPoliticsbyBenjaminCardozo1更多好书请点击www.uus8.org"TheAltruistinPolitics"Therecomesnotseldomacrisisinthelifeofmen,ofnations,andofworlds,whentheoldformsseemreadytodecay,andtheoldrulesofactionhavelosttheirbindingfor
2、ce.Theevilsofexistingsystemsobscuretheblessingsthatattendthem;and,wherereformisneeded,thecryisraisedforsubversion.Thecauseofsuchphenomenaisnotfartoseek."Itusedtoappeartome,"writesCountTolstoi,inasignificantpassage,"itusedtoappeartomethatthesmallnumberofcultivated
3、,richandidlemen,ofwhomIwasone,composedthewholeofhumanity,andthatthemillionsandmillionsofothermenwhohadlivedandarestilllivingwerenotinrealitymenatall."Itisthisspirit-thespiritthatseesthewholeofhumanityinthefew,andthrowsintothebackgroundthemillionsandmillionsofothe
4、rmen-itisthisspiritthathasarousedtheantagonismofreformers,andmadethedecayoftheoldforms,theruptureoftheoldrestrictions,theidealofthemandoftheirfollowers.Whenwealthandpovertymeeteachotherfacetoface,theonethemasterandtheotherthedependent,theoneexaltedandtheotherdeba
5、sed,itisperhapshardlymatterforsurprisethatthedependentanddebasedandpowerlessfaction,inenvyoftheiropponents'supremacy,shoulddemand,notsimplereform,butabsolutecommunityandequalityofwealth.Thatcryforcommunismisnonewoneinthehistoryofmankind.Thousandsofyearsagoitwashe
6、ardandactedon;and,inthelapseofcenturies,itsreverberationshavebutswelledinvolume.Againandagain,thealtruisthasariseninpolitics,hasbiddenussharewithotherstheproductofourtoil,andhasproclaimedthecommunisticdogmaasthepanaceaforoursocialills.Sotoday,amidtheburiedhopesan
7、dburiedprojectsofthepast,thedoctrineofcommunismstilllivesinthemindsofmen.Understressofmisfortune,orindreadoftyranny,itisstillpreachedinmoderntimesasPlatopreacheditintheworldoftheGreeks.Yetitisindeeddoubtfulwhether,inthehistoryofmankind,adoctrinewasevertaughtmorei
8、mpracticableormorefalsetotheprinciplesitprofessesthanthisverydoctrineofcommunism.Inaworldwhereself-interestisavowedlytherulingmotive,itseekstoestablishatoncean
