mass movements 2

Marx’s theory was that you needed an industrialized country to have a proper communist revolution, he expected it to be in Germany and was a bit dumbfounded when it happened in Russia, even more dumbfounded when it happened again in China. In fact I think all the commie revolutions have happened in agrarian countries.

Before Hitler took over, Germany had a large commie contingent and I think it was close to fifty-fifty, and I think Hitler got support from other countries because they would rather have him then the commies. And one of the reasons they let him get away with so much crap before the war started, was they kept hoping that he would attack commie Russia.

Oh and that working up a crowd thing is no virtue. I never like a guy who can stir men’s souls.

Men get in much more trouble when their souls are stirred then when they are a little bored.

I don’t see libertarians getting into a mass movement, just not in their nature. Oh you had the tea party, but half of them were religious, and most of them were more anti-Obama than they were anything else, and I don’t think you can underestimate the guys who thought they looked pretty damn cool in those hats.

But I think mass movement is more of a lefty thing. You know how we are always talking about The People, and we seem to like mobs and marching. Not a good thing about us, but there it is.

And then I’m thinking that I had an actual experience of being in a mass movement by being a hippie. But what about joining the army, isn’t that like joining a really massive mass movement? What do you think?

I think I’ll start on my mass movement experience in my next post.