True socialists do not want a better world, they want a perfect one. That is why they so often view piecemeal amelioration with disdain or even hostility, and why they are willing to sacrifice the happiness of a present generation for the imagined bliss of a generation to come in the distant future. To adapt the Fool's words in Twelfth Night very slightly: Present mirth hath no laughter. What's to come is very sure. In delay there lies plenty
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