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We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-flesh-and-blood-but-against

• vmorgulis 11y ago
  "But the puppetry expands past individuals toward whole empires and movements. If God reached into the year 1900 and removed every single Communist, and every Communist book, and erased all memory of Communism, I think it would take about five minutes before someone reinvented something much like the movement, because there were a bunch of very poor people who felt desperate and cheated crammed up against a bunch of very rich people who weren’t afraid to flaunt their wealth. The new movement might have differed from Communism in minor details – maybe their color would have been blue instead of red – but it wouldn’t be hard to identify." I think it's green...