Originally posted by TweetyBird
Oh do tell - how did communism do that?
Step 1
Communism is adopted by a nation of hundreds of millions through revolution.
Step 2
because it is impossible to make an immediate transition to pure, idealized communism, a provisional government takes control.
Step 3
A power pyramid is formed, with .0000001% of the populous at the top, and everyone else at the base.
Step 4
A single leader, most likely the craftier of the bunch, rises to the top. Everyone else listens to him because, guess what? Those who didn't tend to wind up dead.
Step 5
Single leader is in control of a vast nation, and all of its resources. He is paranoid that an upstart, a man not so different than he himself was in his youth, might decide to win favor with the committee that the leader currently oversees. Paranoid leader takes action.
Step 6
As time wears on, and the line to buy a car or a refrigerator becomes measurable in years, our paranoid leader sees more and more 'upstarts'. He eventually places some very observant people in control of determining who is and who will ulitmately become an upstart based on a very long list of criteria. The group of people, perhaps named something like 'Commitee for Government Safety', grows in size and power.
Step 7
As the committee expands it operations, and weeds out more and more upstarts, their families and their friends, our paranoid leader dies of a stroke.
Step 8
Next guy in line take place. Cycle restarts.
Step 9
Modonna and Mcdonalds force the nation out of business. Head of the Committee for Public Safety waits while a drunken guy fails as a provisional leader, takes control of the country and gives all the cool stuff to his buddies.
Now go get your fluff'n shinebox.
