I think trying to boil down homicidal megalomania into a question of materialist dialectics is a stupid endeavor.
Killing lots of people has a lot more to it than economic policy.
If it were all about government supervision of property and the means of production then I think we would have seen a Swedish or Indian Pol Pot.
I really think its more about naive allocation of power sharing systems.
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Dan: Uh, what materialist dialectic are you talking about? As far as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, et al go, it’s always been about one thing and one thing only: Power.
Hell, you think Stalin gave a shit about Marx? No, when I say “communism”, I’m not talking about an ideology, Dan. That’s a convenient foil for those that like to get caught up in the salesmanship of Lenin, or Gramsci or Chavez. Communism, like fascism, or totalitarianism or Catholicism or militant Islam, is nothing more than window dressing for the accretion of power. That’s pretty much all history is anyway, one group of SOBs killing or robbing from another group of those weaker until they’ve either consumed or subsumed or been taken out by yet another stronger group of SOBs.
Start with Herodotus and Thucydides and work your way down through history. Same freakin’ story, different cast of characters.
