Thread by @Monetarius

All revolutionaries have an eschatological bent — that their beginning necessitates the end of the order that precedes them. It was so with the Bolsheviks who understood any action they took was justified to realize their aims.

They adhered to Marx's notion that capitalism had to end by virtue of its internal contradictions that he had artfully calculated in his masterwork Capital.

When Joseph Stalin seized power, he commissioned a renowned Russian economist named Nicolai Kondratiev to study capitalist economies to determine when they will end.

Kondratiev gathered price data going back to the Napoleonic era of key elements of market economies such as gold, pig iron, coal, Consol bonds, etc., and observed that over time, capitalist economic activity displayed a regular sine wave pattern lasting between 45 to 60 years,

and always ending in deflationary depression, but ultimately recouping to start a new long wave. Capitalism, he surmised, was not destined to end, but to repeat in long waves.

Kondratiev's observations did not fulfill Stalin's request, and because he also had been critical of some of the Communist regime's agricultural policies, he was summarily arrested in 1930 and sentenced to eight years in the Moscow jail.

He continued his economic research in deteriorating health and in one of his last letters to his wife, claimed to have resolved a two-factor model that explained the phenomenon of the long waves of economic activity.

Nobody has seen it, as yet, because at the end of his sentence he was escorted to the courtyard of the Moscow jail and shot. In the minds of the Bolsheviks, Kondratiev was guilty of "thought crimes".

The point of the following summation by Justin Ling of the nature of MAGA which is founded on the ideological antecedents of people of whom you may only be vaguely aware, is that they are not "conservative",

because that definition would only be a reflection of the old order they are determined to overthrow. They see themselves as revolutionaries, and that carries all the historical baggage we are aware of.
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