The world is and always was a shitty place. So far, the only kind of Marxism we’ve observed is the shitty, murderous, expansionist kind. I have no problem with little voluntary Marxist communes here and there, but I have a big problem when it tries to drag everyone into its rapacious grip. And of course, Marxism is all about the dialecti…
The world is and always was a shitty place. So far, the only kind of Marxism we’ve observed is the shitty, murderous, expansionist kind. I have no problem with little voluntary Marxist communes here and there, but I have a big problem when it tries to drag everyone into its rapacious grip. And of course, Marxism is all about the dialectical, so the synthesis of Marxist-Leninism is a feature and not a bug.
At least with the Crusades, most were defensive wars against a totalitarian aggressor who spread a particularly vicious strain of religion out of the Arabian peninsula, across North Africa, throughout the Spanish Peninsula and almost to Paris in the west. In the East, it fought its way through the Levant, into the Balkans and as far northwest as Vienna. After centuries of attacks against the eastern Roman Empire, when Constantinople was finally defeated, it spread east into Central Asia and as far as China. Whatever the sins of the Crusaders, it was better than the alternative we still live with today.
The world is and always was a shitty place. So far, the only kind of Marxism we’ve observed is the shitty, murderous, expansionist kind. I have no problem with little voluntary Marxist communes here and there, but I have a big problem when it tries to drag everyone into its rapacious grip. And of course, Marxism is all about the dialectical, so the synthesis of Marxist-Leninism is a feature and not a bug.
At least with the Crusades, most were defensive wars against a totalitarian aggressor who spread a particularly vicious strain of religion out of the Arabian peninsula, across North Africa, throughout the Spanish Peninsula and almost to Paris in the west. In the East, it fought its way through the Levant, into the Balkans and as far northwest as Vienna. After centuries of attacks against the eastern Roman Empire, when Constantinople was finally defeated, it spread east into Central Asia and as far as China. Whatever the sins of the Crusaders, it was better than the alternative we still live with today.