In 2018, Elon Musk dropped by a SXSW panel and made a reference to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian scientist who helped pioneer the Russian cosmonautics program. Tsiolkovsky was also a founding member of Russian Cosmism, who believed that humanity’s primary goal should be immortality and “interplanetarism.”

Tsiolkovsky also believed the only way to achieve this goal was widespread eugenics programs.
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#QElon constantly says how much he’s inspired by Tsiolkovsky and rocket scientist Sergei Korolev who was inspired by Tsiolkovsky as well.

This has been looked on very favorably by Russian state media and Vladimir Putin.
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Tsiolkovsky was deeply Russian Orthodox, to the point of being ascetic, and he was a Soviet who supported the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Bolsheviks were co-founded by Alexander Bogdanov, who became a rival of Lenin in the party. Bogdanov is thought by many to be the inspiration for the technocracy movement. And the Soviet Union itself has been referred to as a technocracy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

Bogdanov was also a science fiction writer who wrote a book about how a socialist technocratic government would take over Mars in case that sounds familiar.

And, he was an early promoter of blood transfusions as a fountain of youth. Until he died from one in 1928.

Another person very interested in this subject is Peter Fucking Thiel. #PFT
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

The “Technocracy movement” was started by Howard Scott in 1936. It had hundreds of thousands of members in the United States and Canada.

One of the leaders of the movement in Canada was Joshua Haldeman, who was arrested on charges for it in 1940. Joshua Haldeman is Elon Musk’s grandfather.

In 2019, Elon Musk tweeted “accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.”
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https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk

It should be noted that the central feature of technocracy, as defined by “Technocracy Incorporated” is the elimination of the “price system,” ie. money.

Of course, Elon Musk has been trying to disrupt the financial system for his entire career, including PayPal and his many adventures in pushing cryptocurrency scams.
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#QElon’s grandpa Joshua Haldeman, former leader of the Technocracy movement, got fed up with Canada’s “moral failures” by 1950, and moved his family to South Africa, two years after the racist, oppressive regime of Apartheid (literally, “apart-hood”) started.

The government of South Africa had been advertising it as a “whites-only paradise.” Joshua Haldeman’s daughter Maye, gave birth to Elon in Pretoria in 1971.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html

Around the same time that Musk declared his admiration for Tsiolkovsky in 2018, Musk tweeted this: “If you must know, I am a utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks.”

While this may seem wildly out of left field, it actually makes a sick kind of sense.
Iain M. Banks was an avowed socialist, who despised people like Elon Musk, and wrote a series of books about an anarcho-communist space-faring society called “The Culture.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
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