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Stalin got his start in the bolshevik party as a fundraiser. He robbed banks. Not with a stick up, not with safe cracking. He would roll up with a team, throw some grenades into the building, run in as the dust settled, grab the cash, then throw grenades around dthr Street the cover the getaway.

Stalin was a crazy dumbass willing to kill dozens of innocents for money.

Hitler was an Incel. His college roommate told the world about how he obsessed over a young woman for months, said they were fated to be together, but never got the courage to speak to her.

He carried a horsehip everywhere and hit people that passed him off.

He made people call him "Herr wulf" (Mr wolf) as a badass nickname. This is why his bunker in Berlin was called the wolf's lair.

They were absolutely fucking stupid.

Source: early episodes of Behind the Bastards podcast.

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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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Government getting involved and putting their thumb on the economy is as capitalist as it gets.

South Sea Trading bubble, East India Company, Lake Eyrie Canal, trans continental railroad. Teapot Dome.

The government has ALLWAYS had its thumb on the scale for big business interests and if you think that's not true I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you.

Right next to some beachfront property in Arizona.

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The young woman Hitler stallked didn't know he existed. She found out about the crush decades later. He thought she was secretly communicating her love for him via qanon esqe codes like the color of her scarf or where she stopped to eat a pastry.

He was a complete incel buffoon, (obviously not later with Eva Braun, but as a young man) and part of reason he was declared chancellor was they thought he couldn't do much harm.

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At least where I live there would need to be a generational project of encouraging unionization and worker owned coops.

Labor is so rare and weak that most people either don't know anyone in a union or don't know that they know someone in a union.

Worker owned Co ops are vanishingly rare. I wasn't able to find any operating in Texas Last time I checked. We don't have the infrastructure for workers to rise up and manage anything here, so we remain at the mercy of capital.

But, expanding Unions and Co ops is worth doing for its own sake. Even if the revolution never happens, it still improves human welfare.

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That makes zero sense. Wealth taxes where implemented do just that. Fund the welfare state.

I have been convinced by the arguments of the economist Gary Stevenson. If wealth inequality is allowed to grow as it has for the past 50 years the rich will inevitably own everything.

If you have a better suggestion to prevent this future, by all means explain it. But investment reducing inequality is nonsense. Who are you borrowing from to make the investment? The wealthy.

That's like suggesting I pay off my credit card with a different credit card. It's still debt.