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To: mad_as_he$$

A Trump banner will earn a wholly incommensurate level of vitriol and unmitigated profane denunciations. Being a Communist, not so much.

But Communism has NEVER won by persuasion alone, it has always been grown out of the barrel of a gun. Command and control as a way of administering any government may seem to be “efficient” at first, but then the necessary bureaucratic and police measures to keep it going soon overwhelm any other functions altogether, and the only way to maintain an equilibrium between economic collapse and rebellion by the masses is to invent an external “enemy” to keep the subjects focused on other than the problems generated by the internal failures of the regime.

War actually IS the answer to keep the regime propped up.


10 posted on 09/26/2017 3:56:43 AM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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To: alloysteel
Congratulations!

Unlike Hillary, you understood George Orwell's 1984 perfectly.

13 posted on 09/26/2017 4:07:11 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Why do those with the least to say do so loudly and often?)
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To: alloysteel

The USSR existed so long as it did because it stayed on a war footing and because it had a capitalist world from which to copy pricing and technology. It got a major boost with the conquest and stripping of Eastern Europe. Reagan finally pushed the USSR to its natural conclusion by accelerating the rate at which the USSR felt it necessary to expend (in misdirection) the last of the loot from Eastern Europe.


38 posted on 09/26/2017 4:52:53 AM PDT by arthurus
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