Lester Golden
1 min readSep 25, 2023

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Bakunin and Kropotkin warned Karl Marx that his statist socialism of the dictatorship of the proletariat would end up as the authoritarian dictatorship of a one party state that would be far more oppressive than any king or emperor. Their forecast was absolutely prescient, now that we know how murderous the regimes of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim Communist monarchy, Venezuela's Chavez, Fidel's Cuba have been. I apply Bakunin's and Kropotkin's forecasts to out of power authoritarians like you. Fortunately, embryonic Stalinists/Maoists like you will never get within many country miles of exercising power over anybody.

Who will decide which laws protect fossil fuel companies and which protect basic property and human rights? Would you abolish people's right to start a business? the limited liability corporation? money itself? stock exchanges and forex markets? private ownership of real estate? Antiques and artworks and their exchange in auction markets? Ban private car and boat ownership?

Again, who will decide what's "essential" and what not? I expect you believe my essentials are your unnecessary luxuries to be prohibited.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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