| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | CanadaSucks (50)
04/15/2008 | Certainly isn't the case with the present administration.
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 | irishgit (156)
04/15/2008 | Arrant nonsense.
Bevin was often full of such hogwash.
The common man is more likely than not to be baying for blood.
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 | DrEntropy (40)
03/10/2007 | I tend to agree with Irish and Enkindu rather than Jon on this one. Sadly, the common man (though not, at least in the same way, the common woman...) is a bellicose creature, who only tires of war after years of slaughter...and then the next generation has to learn the cost of war all over again. The philosopher Bertrand Russell (observing the pro-war hysteria that accompanied the outbreak of WWI) was far more perceptive than Bevin: "I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better."
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 | JonTheMan (29)
03/27/2005 | As a prominent member of a working class party, Bevin could obviously see that the common man was not so brutal as the educated classes liked to believe. His party was invariably more pacifistic than the party of the so called educated classes, often to Bevin's chagrin, as he was certainly no pacifist himself! I'm sure the British aristocracy during the first world war found the common man quite base and barbaric, even as they conscripted him and sent him off to die in droves for a few more miles of frigid mud.
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 | Enkidu (39)
03/27/2005 | Either idiotically naive, or just plain stupid. The common man mainly gets worked up into a patriotic and murderous furor, especially when subject to a terrible fear, and wars happen again and again as a result.
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