Ian Dunt

You look for the same, like USSR.

Why did the USSR turn into this tyrannical, oppressive government?

And then they'll say, well, it's because it wasn't really communism.

It was state capitalism.

And they'll give you a whole series of explanations that all fit whatever the Trotskyist analysis of the scenario was.

And you'll act towards it the same way that I did when I first encountered Jesus, right?

It's the life raft.

oh, I experienced doubt for a moment.

There was a quiver.

But now you've given me the things just so it's like, okay, this is all fine.

At no point are you engaged in truth.

At no point are you engaged in consensus or pragmatism or trying to understand where other people are coming from or trying to build solutions with others.

You are just engaged in the process of erecting the sturdiest walls for your dogma.

And because I see so much of that around me now, I've become quite grateful that I have those memories and that realization of how it worked when I was a child.

And that makes it almost more of a mental type and a thought process than it does anything ideological.

They need certainty.

There are two ways out of something like Marxism.

Number one, well, basically, you know, the house stands.

So you leave the structure in place, the foundations, but you get rid of all the sofas and the chairs and the tables and the beds and all the content.

And then you get in a whole bunch of new stuff.