Kolakowski, Leszek

Why did God create the world Traditional answers have involved the notion of enriching alienation, of God externalizing himself in the world he creates so as to increase his fullness of being. Leszek Kolakowski cites the following passage from Eriugena, which can also be applied to the act of literary creation ... 

Lest one imagine that the state coercion to be applied would be decided democratically by the proletariat or its representatives, Lenin makes it clear just after the revolution that, as Leszek Kolakowski puts it, "the point about the dictatorship of the proletariat... is the absolute power, constrained by no laws, based on sheer, direct violence. And he said that there would be no freedom and no democracy (those were his very words) until the complete victory of Communism all over the world ( A Calamitous Accident, Times Literary Supplement, November 6, 1992, p. 5). 

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