{"id":105335,"date":"2016-09-04T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105335"},"modified":"2016-09-06T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T15:55:10","slug":"who-rules-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105335","title":{"rendered":"Who Rules Whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* \u201cWho? Whom?\u201d is a great concept, but a lousy phrase. It\u2019s meaning isn\u2019t obvious enough, it\u2019s a little hard to say, and it sounds too much like an owl talking. Was it translated from a language where it sounds better?
\nIt\u2019s better than no phrase at all, but do readers have any ideas for a substitute phrase for the idea that some people ask who is helped and who is hurt before they decide who is right, in politics. \u201cCui bono\u201d is related, but not the same \u2014 it refers to the \u201cfollow the money\u201d idea that some action has a hidden motive. \u201cBut will it hurt the Jews?\u201d is the same idea, but we need something that applies generally, not just to one group.<\/p>\n

* Who, whom?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\n“…a Bolshevist principle or slogan which was formulated by Lenin in 1921…
\n2nd All-Russian Congress of Political Education Departments…<\/p>\n

…”The whole question is \u2014 who will overtake whom?”<\/p>\n

…Trotsky used the shortened “who whom” formulation in his 1925 article, “Towards Capitalism or Towards Socialism?”…<\/p>\n

…invoked by Joseph Stalin in 1929… gave the formula its “aura of hard-line coercion”…<\/p>\n

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\n“The fact is, we live according to Lenin’s formula: Kto-Kovo?: will we knock them, the capitalists, flat and give them (as Lenin expresses it) the final, decisive battle, or will they knock us flat? “.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…Stalin used kto-kogo to justify a policy of mass coercion against peasant kulaks to implant collective farms long before industry reached a high level.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who wins, who dies?<\/p>\n

Who gets to do what, to whom?<\/p>\n

Who’s the horse, who’s the rider?<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s not an entry-level catchphrase. You have to know it to know it, if you know what I mean. But once you do know it writing it out longhand as \u201cWho rules whom\u201d or \u201cwho shall rule whom\u201d is tedious. People like less obvious catchphrases, by the way. It makes them feel like insiders for knowing them.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a better phrase, but \u201cwhose side are you on\u201d works okay. Maybe we could just flash gang signs at each other.<\/p>\n

* I am sure that Lenin intended it in a very broad sense.<\/p>\n

Who gains from whom?<\/p>\n

Who defeats whom?<\/p>\n

Who did what to whom?<\/p>\n

Who chooses to be with, support, favour or join whom?<\/p>\n

* I think that \u2018Who? Whom?\u2019 is a great formulation.<\/p>\n

Nothing could be more concise.<\/p>\n

Subject form, object form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer: * \u201cWho? Whom?\u201d is a great concept, but a lousy phrase. It\u2019s meaning isn\u2019t obvious enough, it\u2019s a little hard to say, and it sounds too much like an owl talking. Was it translated from a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105719,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105335\/revisions\/105719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}