Soviet Affairs Desk, 12/6/2021 It all started with a newborn interest in revolution. An interest itself born out of the growing sense that one was about to arrive. I had every reason to believe that it would bubble up from the American far left and go ripping through society from there; after all, by 2018 the far left was yowling about revolution a little more loudly than usual, and with some action to back up their incendiary rhetoric. They promised to rise up, to disrupt, to dismantle. In a sense, that is what actually happened. But my initial view of events and where they were leading was insufficiently dynamic. It was two-dimensional. Perhaps because I didn’t have a comprehensive grasp of what government is and what it always seeks to do (I was still a centrist), and certainly because I did not see SARS-CoV-2 coming. (Who did? The World Economic Forum? That’s a different essay.)
The Soviet Rabbit Hole Part I
The Soviet Rabbit Hole Part I
The Soviet Rabbit Hole Part I
Soviet Affairs Desk, 12/6/2021 It all started with a newborn interest in revolution. An interest itself born out of the growing sense that one was about to arrive. I had every reason to believe that it would bubble up from the American far left and go ripping through society from there; after all, by 2018 the far left was yowling about revolution a little more loudly than usual, and with some action to back up their incendiary rhetoric. They promised to rise up, to disrupt, to dismantle. In a sense, that is what actually happened. But my initial view of events and where they were leading was insufficiently dynamic. It was two-dimensional. Perhaps because I didn’t have a comprehensive grasp of what government is and what it always seeks to do (I was still a centrist), and certainly because I did not see SARS-CoV-2 coming. (Who did? The World Economic Forum? That’s a different essay.)