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Originally Posted by Andrew Mandelbaum
The left you bring up, I assume, is the Bolsheviks and later Stalin. Personally I don't recognize most of that business with the anything but another Statist ideology gone bad.
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Andrew,
I wrote: 'Russia, 1918'. There is nothing to
assume.
Anyone who hasn't lived under a rock will know exactly what I referred to, to be blunt. That revolution had repercussions that affected the world, and, more heinously, flattened and demoralized the Russian populace.
Statist ideology doesn't have to
go bad, it's bad to begin with. When you believe that the state is more important than the individual, and that any number of individuals can and often
must be sacrificed to maintain the well-being of something that is not a flesh and blood entity but a nebulous abstraction— and essentially an unattainable dream in the heads of a few privileged intellectuals—then something is terribly wrong.
The October Revolution was not just an ideology gone wrong. It was a bloody massacre of innocents.
And let's not forget the French Revolution. Yet another festival of blood and carnage.
When the Mob rules, all bets are off. The Mob can be right or left, it doesn't matter. A mob will behave the way a mob behaves. And it's never pretty, and it's never good.