After the Revolution, it will be necessary to maintain a government for defense of the realm and to protect subjects from one another. This government will have to have an absolute monopoly on force with no delegation to political subdivisions. It will be a principal activity of the government to prevent subjects from and punish them for conspiring with one another to use force on other subjects even where the object of the conspiracy is a perceived public good. Another principal activity will be the re-education and rehabilitation of authoritarians. It will be necessary to maintain constant vigilance and to suppress counterrevolutionary concepts wherever they are manifest. Another principal activity will be the spread of the Revolutionary Movement to every corner of the world until every human has the blessings of liberty whether they want it or not. They will come to embrace it in time and with careful indoctrination. In that day of worldwide unity, the government will be able to curtail a significant portion of its activities and reduce costs so as to increase liberty to every terran beyond what we can now imagine.
The campaign to change the hearts of authoritarians will not be as difficult or as costly as one might imagine. Many authoritarians are irredeemable and will always be authoritarians. They can, however, be ordered to be free and to respect the freedom of others, and they can be expected to obey. What is necessary is to decapitate the authoritarians. I'm not speaking of actual executions, just the apprehension and removal of authoritarian leaders and their "intelligentsia". Inasmuch as most of these people are opportunistic and lacking in any principles other than careful attention to self promotion, many of them will be easily persuaded to welcome their new overlords and to encourage their constituencies to embrace Revolutionary Principles. Others may require more in the way of persuasion and indoctrination and will have to be housed in special learning centers until they come around. Others, especially those who have participated in crimes and held governmental offices, will be tried and dealt with justly by by Revolutionary Tribunals.
It is only by constant soulcraft that the Revolution can succeed.
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I'm really sorry; this is such good satire I can't tell if you're serious or not. But just for the record, anyone who really believes "Freedom at the end of a gun barrel is still freedom" is in serious need of re-education. I think you agree with me, but I refer you to my first sentence.
And to think that I was going to put the Freedom at the end of a gun barrel proverb in the front of my book of sayings for the edification of the masses.
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