Violence is the answer to the question we keep asking: "How do I get power over other people?"
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Maybe since things remain the same, turning to violence as the answer is like when they only saw the bullet holes in non essential parts of the airplanes, and we're only reading books that record violent conflict
At some point I fear it's the only language that wasn't tried, yet.
I mean, if we are talking international wars between major world powers, the only thing keeping bullets from flying directly at each other are nuclear weapons. They are the persistent gun to all of our heads to force the diplomats to not flip the table.
Until 1945, violence was the primary language of the world. At least in terms of subduing another world power.
Violence is the result of us still not having all the right, or even most of the right answers, collectively. Obviously we all think we have the right answers, that's a whole other part of the problem.
Communists were overtaken peacefully, fascists violently.
Communists? You mean all those dictatorships?
Dictatorship of the proletariat, yes.
The ones that voted to disolve?
Yes, after the dictatorship had fallen, remember?
Riddle me this; how many voted and were allowed to leave before the fall?
Also, before the fall of the ruling party, how fair were the elections? Do you seriously believe multiple competing parties were allowed for election and despite all that the people were so happy that all of them always voted for the communist party?
Free and fair elections in Soviet Union. That's definitely what soviets were known for.
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