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7/1/2025, 11:52:30 PM
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3. Most Communist states had revolutionary strongmen founders e.g. Tito or Castro. Or were selected by a patron soviet state from a stable of potentials e.g. Kim Il-sung.
4. Communism has a high pressure selection system for leadership. It's a wild filter. Look into the lives of most Communist founders and they have crazy dangerous life stories compared to some boring jagoff head of parliament.
- Stalin escaped prison/exile like 6 times, and infamously got his start in the party being a dirty bank robber where others were too onions, after quitting a life as a potential priest. If he had failed at anypoint we would never have heard much of him.
Mao got promoted by surviving a death march that had 10% survival rate. Pol
- Pot became leader of his party because it was under constant state surveillance and persecution as an illegal organization, and leaders tended to die. Pol Pot was one of the guys willing to take the job after the previous had been murdered, so I hear. And the Khmer Rouge rose to power because the country had been bombed to smithereens by the USA.
- Che Guevara's life is akin to an isekai protagonist. He was a straight up adventurer.
- Khrushchev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOIzK8NuoU
Anyway, the survivors tend to select for a certain type. Unambitious people with reasonable safe approaches to life and average everyman personalities is not it.
3. Most Communist states had revolutionary strongmen founders e.g. Tito or Castro. Or were selected by a patron soviet state from a stable of potentials e.g. Kim Il-sung.
4. Communism has a high pressure selection system for leadership. It's a wild filter. Look into the lives of most Communist founders and they have crazy dangerous life stories compared to some boring jagoff head of parliament.
- Stalin escaped prison/exile like 6 times, and infamously got his start in the party being a dirty bank robber where others were too onions, after quitting a life as a potential priest. If he had failed at anypoint we would never have heard much of him.
Mao got promoted by surviving a death march that had 10% survival rate. Pol
- Pot became leader of his party because it was under constant state surveillance and persecution as an illegal organization, and leaders tended to die. Pol Pot was one of the guys willing to take the job after the previous had been murdered, so I hear. And the Khmer Rouge rose to power because the country had been bombed to smithereens by the USA.
- Che Guevara's life is akin to an isekai protagonist. He was a straight up adventurer.
- Khrushchev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOIzK8NuoU
Anyway, the survivors tend to select for a certain type. Unambitious people with reasonable safe approaches to life and average everyman personalities is not it.
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