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.
He points out that the revolution actually starts with the intelligentsia, who then use the mob and the fear it generates as their way to take over and destroy legitimate institutions. Russia was full of the “intelligentsia” at that time...well-off young people who either didn’t have to work or took some kind of “intellectual “ job (teaching, for example) and then devoted themselves to trying to destroy society and remake it in their image.
Just like all the sorority girls and trust fund babies getting caught at our recent riots.
The article is very long, if you click on the link, but it’s very thought interesting.