Nopens het volgende citaat uit 'Eyeless in Gaza' kan men slechts verzuchten: hadden degenen die de loop van de geschiedenis hebben beïnvloed, dit maar ingezien en ernaar gehandeld! En hoe actueel is het!
(Helen is een vriendin van hoofdpersoon Anthony Beavis.)
'Helen's was the usual communist argument -- no peace or social justice without a preliminary 'liquidation' of capitalists. liberals, and so forth. As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve. Violence and war produce a peace and a social organization having the potentialities of more violence and war. The war to end war (Huxley doelt op de Eerste Wereldoorlog - hk) resulted, as usual, in a peace essentially like war; the revolution to achieve communism, in a hierarchical state where a minority rules by police methods à la Metternich-Hitler-Mussolini, and where the power to oppress in virtue of being rich is replaced by the power to oppress in virtue of being a member of the oligarchy. Peace and social justice, only obtainable by means that are just and pacific. And people will behave justly and pacifically only if they haved trained themselves as individuals to do so, even in circumstances where it would be easier to behave violently and unjustly.'
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