@georgetakei It's worth remembering that Russell was initially quite enamoured with the ideals of soviet communism, that is, until he learned about its obscene brutality.

The far-left fools and their ilk became "tankies", commie mouthpieces hailing communist "peace tanks" liberating peoples...

A dictatorship is a dictatorship, whether fascist or communist.

I also wonder what he'd make of russia and china turning fascist third reich students in the 2000s...

(He'd already seen American hitlerites marching and rallying in the late 1930s so the signs were already there, not forgetting prevalent segregationism...)