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But all this means is that those of us who declare ourselves socialists must reaffirm our radicalism, envision a truly revolutionary anti-capitalist future, and understand that today, as in Gilded Age America, the our cause is increasingly that of a radical democracy struggling to be born.
In seriousness, no it doesn't.
Not everyone in Russia died when Communism took over. What did happen?
All of the previous elite were killed first. They all died. Well, some escaped to New York. But it was a bloodbath. And then, yeah, things went on from there over the decades.
Perhaps we have misunderstood communism and thus missed its potential as a useful tool. Everywhere communism has tried, it has worked brilliantly. It has resulted in the deposement and wholesale slaughter of the country's previous ruling elite. That is the purpose of communism. That is why God gave it to us, as a tool. Communism is not an economic system, it is a tactic. As an economic system, it would be retarded and obviously unworkable. But as a tactic of "how can we get rid of all these horrible disgustoids ruling over us?" it seems to work almost miraculously well. It's never failed.
Now the Russian czars and oligarchs were not that bad, it's quite a shame they were slaughtered, and those rulers who replaced them were a decided step down in quality. But our rulers today are an unrelentingly malicious, unmitigated horror of freaks with no virtue, no intelligence, no taste, and no excuse to be allowed to continue living. Whatever rulers replaced them couldn't possibly be worse. If whipping the people up into a communist revolution would be an effective way of exterminating our rulers, it certainly deserves some consideration.
(I don't actually believe the above. It's just a fresh and interesting perspective to consider.)
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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This guy has an awesome channel.
And a really hot Belarussian girlfriend.
He mostly hangs out in Russia and the former soviet states, but he's in Cuba this week.
No, I was thinking of specifically what I wrote: Communist revolutions. The French revolution was not Communist, though certainly it did seem to do the trick of killing off the existing elite, too. Various countries have undergone successful Commie revs. Coming to mind are:
Russia
China
Cambodia
In each instance, the tactic worked brilliantly: existing ruling class slaughtered. You can just follow the trail of rotted ruler bodies. Proof, meet pudding. Pudding, proof.
Communism works.
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