“Uncle Joe” Stalin was a murderous thug. This is, in most circles, not controversial. If you want some real humour about his last days, Armando Iannucci’s 2017 “The Death of Stalin” is a staggering achievement.
This below, from “Tonight, Josephine: and other undiscovered letters” by Michael Green, is pretty good…
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Communisms -v-Capitalism (left-v-right), have had their day. Growth has made them both irrelevant, the pure weight of numbers (population), is making politics obsolete.
No party or coalition will be able to have controlling numbers, government as we know it will and is becoming unworkable.
Authoritarianism (control), is the future, the people won’t be asked, they will be told. Democracy is obsolete, the greater the numbers, the less chance of getting any form of consensus.
I doubt I’ll see it, but the next 50 years will be fun.