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| Lao-tse has returned, greeted by cult followers! |
That an anti-Czarist, anti-Slavophile form of German socialism dealing with the industrial working class (and Black slaves) ended up becoming the official state ideology of a neo-Czarist neo-Slavophile anti-German empire that almost resurrected (White) slavery, is surely one of the biggest "dialectical" ironies in world history. See also: China.
Where Marxism became the latest form of Taoist millenarianism of a kind very common in Middle Kingdom history. First, overthrow the empire. Then, become the empire.
Not sure what conclusions we should derive from this. Except that the world is a very, very strange place.
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