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And in the new iteration, people like the New York Times staff will be hauled outside their building, lined up against a wall, and shot dead.

It depends on whether the "moderate" group or the "extremist" group gained power. The Russian royal family was originally spared in 1917. George C. Scott played the film role of moderate revolutionary. He was to let the Czar and family go to England. The extremists then threw the moderates out and the Russian royal family were shot dead. Malea, females and child.

Excuse this ramble, but the aerial view of Thomas Friedman's ( NYT) woodland mansion and even another house has been often shown. One could not for one moment, imagine Mr Friedman being allowed to remain "the lord of all he surveys". First he goes to the small house with swimming pool, if he is lucky. If the other extremists get in, he gets a trailer and lumps it.

I have not encountered such folly for years of people shilling for a sharing of the wealth. This and supporting the demagogues that preach it. Then expect to live in a vacuum, mansions, luxury condos, country retreats etc.

I agree. Redistribution is universal, until normalcy settles in, and then the party officials grant dispensations to the new privileged class, themselves.

I have a hard time with the concept of moderates here, because as I touched on earlier, folks will never follow the progression of these ideologies by choice.

As they fight the new system, more and more legislation is required, to force them to comply. And when they still don’t, physical force is required. The freedom the idiots think is their right today, to complain, dies up front. You don’t publicly complain under these systems, and if your neighbor is on the state payroll, you basically can’t open your yap other than to breath and eat. And as Socialist societies always evolve, breathing and eating also comes under control

You’re very existence is by permission from the state.

That was a crime what happened to the Tsars. Unfortunately, some of my ancestors and family fought on the Red side in Russia, my great-great grandfather, supposedly he knew Lenin. If I was around then with the mind I have now, I’d say, “sorry gramps, but I have to fight you because I fight for what it right.”