[livius]

This is a lengthy and terrifying article because the same scenario is being played out today in the US. The author particularly focuses on how the liberal party of the day, the Kadets, went from supporting legality to actively (through words, lack of law enforcement, and money) supporting the anarchists and Communists who were killing as many as they could and destroying Russia. Traditional “liberalism” disappeared and the Kadets, who were finally afraid of what they had unleashed, did more and more to placate the leftist terrorists. In the end, it didn’t work, because once the communists got control of Russia, they seized the property of and killed the Kadets anyway.

Replace Kadets with Democrats and you’ll find an exact match.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A party that has openly embraced extreme Socialism, bordering on full-bore Communism, with a demented nominee who can barely remember his own name, is still within striking distance of winning the Presidency six weeks out.

Just let THAT one sink in before you start writing tombstone epitaphs for the Left.

[Erik Latranyi]

The repeat of socialism is that it always starts with naive and uneducated people who are losers in life and join forces with the over-educated and useless academia to endorse massive gov’t control over everything in order to produce a more “fair” nation.

The masters pulling the strings will be the big beneficiaries...their power and wealth increase.

The losers who were the cannon fodder are discarded and suppressed. The academics are sent away to gulags and the poor get poorer.

The nation goes into a death spiral.

This is the cycle that happens in EVERY socialist revolution.

[mosaicwolf]

One issue that is mormally forgotten in these comparisons is the 390+ million guns in the hands of American Patriots.

[infool7]

Yeah but this year...

Fink beats the Stomach.

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[Yollopoliuhqui]

Not like the Czar’s autocratic oligarchical regime and a history of serfdom and ignorance made life an opportunity filled garden of Eden for 90% of the citizenry.

[edwinland]

Fantastic article.

I just finished it and highly recommend everyone read the whole thing.

It describes a kind of madness that we can easily identify in an individual (suicidal tendencies, megalomaniacal thinking, violent outbursts, self harm) but when it takes root in a collective group of people it’s harder to diagnose because the symptoms are literally all around us.

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> Not just lawyers, teachers, doctors, and engineers, but even industrialists and bank directors raised money for the terrorists. Doing so signaled advanced opinion and good manners. .... Revolutions never succeed without the support of wealthy, liberal, educated society. Yet revolutionaries seldom conceal that their success entails the seizure of all wealth, the suppression of dissenting opinion, and the murder of class enemies. <<<<

And repeatedly the who’s who representing “lawyers, teachers, doctors, and engineers, but even industrialists and bank directors” all think they won’t be eaten or eaten last.

Humans rarely learn from history lessons.