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I watched the first part up to where Alex Christoforou chips in. Interesting. I will maybe watch the rest later.
As soon as blood is involved in a revolution, things go from "very bad" to "worst possible nightmare" quickly. The Russian Revolution was once such incidence, the French Revolution was studied at high School in the UK, and even the softened down kids version was enough to give any normal person nightmares. What it must of been like to live though would be an unimaginable horror to anyone alive today. Denouncing your neighbour was fashionable, or anyone you didn't like. Unfortunately that seems to be back in vogue.
The American way of life is almost the opposite to communism, and it will be the last country to succumb to a communist regime. It did give rise to the Rockefeller's though, and a number of other individuals and societies that have helped created todays problem, including the Russian Revolution, and the Nazi empire. These people/societies developed the plan to help put communist China through an advanced pace industrial revolution to where it is today. In this way the manufacturing might of the USA could be under cut and the middle class destroyed. Mnuchin foreclosing all those properties after the financial "contagion" left a long list of very pissed off people, I add that as just a side note. Sticking it to the people creates blowback, and frankly the Russian Czars were stupid.
Technology has played an important part in things too. A lot of jobs we have today can also be "disappeared". That can cause a big shift in political power.
Forget the labels for a moment. There is a social aspect to "We the people", and an aspect of individual rights, freedom of speech, religion, and an open market economy. There is rule of law. The "open market economy" beats the communist type "command economy" hands down.It's amusing to reread "Khrushchev Remembers", he has stories about the open market economy. Bad actors and corruption can creep in to both systems, more likely in the latter. Importantly the MIC, which was a hefty proportion of my workload is effectively a command economy. Easier money to earn generally. Just also something to note. At the end of the day it's a matter of balance. The USA has a tradition of getting right more often then most countries. Democracy maybe the worst possible system to run a country, except it's better then all the others. (Churchill)
Balance is what it is all about, and that is the ball to keep an eye on.
Regarding the communists, I still only have watched a bit of this. It's a must for any student of politics imho, especially if you intend to go to university to study. Subversion. Sometimes you just have to hand it to the KGB, maybe being hungry and broke all the time makes you sharper and more cunning ?
However, you can always learn from the other side as well. But being upfront and a straight player can be a winner some of the time too. Maybe most of the time -g-
