Orwell, meditating revolutionary socialist dictatorship, defined power as the ability to make men suffer.
Furet, contemplating the history of Communism's depredations in the 20th Century, explained its revolutions, civil wars, and democides by attributing all of it to the most abject hatred of the bourgeoisie.
Not the self-interest, desire for well-being, or even jealousy or greed of the masses.
Their sheer destructive hatred of the high and the mighty.
Now consider the crusade of the American billionaires to destroy the great legacy of progressivism, doing all they can to plunge the working class once again into the worst horrors of 19th Century wage slavery.
They are too rich already for this to be about self-interest or their own well-being.
Nor, obviously, can it be about jealousy or envy of the masses.
It could be, but it is not likely, pathological greed.
Might the motive of Koch style, radical Republican politics not be a fierce malevolence, a real and definite desire to greatly and grievously harm the low and the weak, out of sheer hate?
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