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Globalization is Communism Lite
“Globalization” was communism in disguise. It failed for the same reasons communism always fails: Greed and logistics.
According to the Black Book of Communism, communist systems and forms of government have been responsible for the death of 100 million people over the past 100 years.
From the engineered famines of Mao’s post-Cultural Revolution China to the execution of the entire Russian royal Romanov family — right down to the youngest child — by the Bolsheviks, communism is a failed system. Communism sounds good. It looks good on paper. It makes a good song.
“Imagine all the people, sharing all world.” — John Lennon
“Imagine” is a beautiful song — just like the ideals espoused by communism. The reality, however, is far different.
While the artist known as John Lennon was regaling Beatles fans with his utopian vision of a world with no possessions, John Lennon the real-life person — the businessman — was in the process of relocating his vast fortune to more tax-friendly climes.
In so doing, he was seeking to avoid the very communist approach to wealth redistribution he was idealizing and memorializing forever in song.
His reasons for doing so were probably very complicated, but like many wealthy…