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Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the new soviet man.

"Who needs a "1"? The voice of a "1" is thinner than a squeak. Who will hear it? Only the wife... A "1" is nonsense. A "1" is zero." --Soviet Poem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man#Selflessness

EDIT: And yes, the unrealistic dream of building a society of new soviet men is central to the failure of communism. Hayek's criticism of a planned economy is valid but a hypothetical society of very altruistic people could make it work much, much better than it ever did in practice.



Nobody's defending communism, he's just saying that the bathroom practices were pretty secondary to, you know, the whole communism thing.


What makes you think the bathroom practices are unrelated to communism? It's called totalitarianism for a reason...




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