Stephen Kotkin

Young people, the future of those countries go to their senseless deaths.

What's that about?

It's about imperialism.

It's about capitalism.

And so that's evil and we must overcome that.

And so there's a way in which life experience, as well as the fervor of youth, let's build a new world today rather than wait for tomorrow.

Let's be impatient.

Let's eradicate capitalism.

Let's bring about socialism.

Let's bring about socialism meaning end war and imperialism.

Achieve abundance for everybody so that it's not just the haves and the have-nots, but everybody's got something.

And in the process, let's make my little life world historical.

So here I am, just a little activist with a red star on my cap.

And my life means nothing, except if I'm a participant in building a new world, in a world historical process that's going to end exploitation, that's going to end haves and have nots.

There's a big story here, which is about how we're building a new world and there are people against that because they're the bourgeoisie.

Or they're the fools who are doing the bourgeoisie's business on behalf of the bourgeoisie.

Right.

They're duped into false consciousness.

They know that there are enemies out there.

They know that this process has people who are against it.