[Selvik]

Why are you being so unpleasant? Viewing a desire for bathroom privacy as reactionary is characteristic of the whole set of ideals related to the new soviet man.

"Who needs a "1"? The voice of a "1" is thinner than a squeak. Who will hear it? Only the wife... A "1" is nonsense. A "1" is zero." --Soviet Poem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man#Selflessness

EDIT: And yes, the unrealistic dream of building a society of new soviet men is central to the failure of communism. Hayek's criticism of a planned economy is valid but a hypothetical society of very altruistic people could make it work much, much better than it ever did in practice.

[jbooth]

Nobody's defending communism, he's just saying that the bathroom practices were pretty secondary to, you know, the whole communism thing.

[Selvik]

What makes you think the bathroom practices are unrelated to communism? It's called totalitarianism for a reason...