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Laozi Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way, translated and with commentary by Moss Roberts. University of California Press, 149 pages, $22
The connection between simple-life quietism and the political left has often been noted. Orwell, in his diatribes against the armchair progressives he so despised, never failed to include, along with Trotskyite poets, pamphleteering pacifists, and "pink" sodomites, the legions of sandal-wearing, vegetarian, teetotaling tree-huggers he knew so well from Independent Labour Party summer schools. Among my own acquaintances are two dear old friends in England, a married couple, who are left as left can be: keen readers of the Guardian ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The uses of quietism.(Tao Te Ching)