One branch of 'socialism' went out of business in 1945.This one branch of 'socialism' had infested large parts of the globe, perhaps most of the globe, and it had not simply disappeared together with the demise of the old "Soviet Union can do no wrong" state.
One can physically destroy people, and there is hardly anything to be said in favor of such a proposition.
But what about a slow, painful, yet unnoticed and yet all-pervading menticide ?
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