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is it wrong to kill several thousand people who back a government in the process of installing a communist dictatorship, with all that that entails?

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

after Xi Jinping removed term limits and instilled himself as “president for life” in 2018, the Chinese people were stripped of their optionality (while the Chinese do not have democratic elections, its leaders in the years prior to Xi typically responded to the needs/wants of the Chinese people and were chosen by consensus every ten years).

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Ted Lamade • America’s Superpower

Lenin, in his last period of active life, became increasingly aware of the dangers posed by the power of the bureaucracy. At the eleventh party congress in 1922 (the last he attended) he sounded this warning:

“The [state] machine refused to obey the hand that guided it. It was like a car that was going not in the way the driver desired but in a dire... See more

George Collins • Russia: How the Bureaucracy Seized Power

THE MIG-21 PROJECT | Ralph Ziman

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Marxism Unmasked (LvMI)

Ludwig von Mises

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The visual above tells the story. The most right-wing country in the world is now CCP China, the ethnocentric champion of the Han, the place where “sissy men” are now banned from TV and whose self-admitted goal is irredentist reunification. Its core premise is ethnonationalism, which can be paraphrased as “Chinese people are the best.”103 Conversel

Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country

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the orientation of the Hitlerite masses, though violently anti-capitalist, is by no means socialist,

Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty

Lame Man Tang was soon arrested. By the beginning of 1968, a new, fourth stage of the Cultural Revolution had started. Phase One had been the teenage Red Guards; then came the Rebels and the attacks on capitalist-roaders; the third phase had been the factional wars among the Rebels. Mao now decided to halt the factional fighting. To bring about obe