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Beyond control
Christian Century, Jan 10, 2006
BEYOND CONTROL: A police state like the former Soviet Union lives by the Leninist principle that trust is good but control is better. But Karl Marx himself had wondered, Who controls the controllers? The only response is to have more controllers, which leads to a pervasive system of control in which people say only what they think authorities want to hear, and stop thinking for themselves.
Jurgen Moltmann (Theology Today, January) turns the Leninist maxim around--control is good, but trust is even better. But trust can only flourish where there is freedom for people to grow in truth telling. To restore trust where it has been lost, there must be repentance, confession of guilt, a change of heart, and reparation--which can happen on both the personal and the political levels. Even nations are capable of "confidence building measures" that restore the trust of their citizens or of other nations.
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