[OPE] Marx and wikileaks

I've found a Marx-quote which helps explain why Marxists embrace wikileaks:

"The bureaucracy has the being of the state, the spiritual being of society,
in its possession; it is its private property. The general spirit of the
bureaucracy is the secret, the mystery, preserved inwardly by means of the
hierarchy and externally as a closed corporation. To make public the mind
and the disposition of the state appears therefore to the bureaucracy as a
betrayal of its mystery. Accordingly authority is the principle of its
knowledge and being, and the deification of authority is its mentality."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch03.htm

Thus, there seems to be in general something radical about divulging
confidential state information.

J.

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Received on Sun Feb 20 19:50:05 2011