Yet there are idiots here who still think that THEIR brand of socialism/communism won’t be like ALL the others.
“Yet there are idiots here who still think that THEIR brand of socialism/communism won’t be like ALL the others.”
All of the various stripes of collectivism share basic features, whether they are Italian Fascists, German Nazis, Russian/Chinese/East German/Cuban/North Korean Communists or American Leftists (who haven’t yet worked up the guts to declare themselves to be Communists). As one of my Russian cousins told me when I asked him 25 years ago, “what is it like to live a life without Communists in charge?” ... “Same wall, different wallpaper.” Underneath, they are all the same - ignorant, jealous, intolerant, filled with hatred - and waiting for some strongman to tell them what to do, because they haven’t any courage to take on life on its own (or their) terms.
BTW, a hundred years ago Lenin talked about these people: he called them “useful idiots.” [I call them “useLESS idiots]. They were the naive, ignorant followers who gave mass to the force behind the Russian Revolution, but who were easily led and, in the end, were forgotten (if they were lucky) or disposed of in the Gulag or in a shallow grave somewhere in the forest. Today’s useful idiots are little different from the ones Lenin spoke of: Lenin’s spoke Russian and weren’t a bunch of coddled, spoiled snowflia