In
October 1917, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power
under the banner of socialism and set out to build the world’s most
equitable society. Today, capitalism prevails everywhere. Crushing
inequality and poverty is rampant around the globe. So, was the
October Revolution really as significant as it seemed 100 years ago?
We spoke to unrepentant Leninists from a variety of backgrounds and
different parts of the world to find out.
Operation Mindfuck: The origins of the Illuminati conspiracy fraud and how it became popular in our times
From the new documentary Can 't Get You Out of My Head by Adam Curtis globinfo freexchange The first settlers had come from Europe to America to flee from the corruption of power in the Old World. But although they had got away from the old power, they hadn't got away from their suspicious minds, and alone, out in the vast wilderness of the new America, that led them to imagining dark, hidden conspiracies in their own government, far away in Washington. One of the first of these, in the early 19th century, said that a secret group from Europe, called the Bavarian Illuminati, were running a giant conspiracy in America to destroy the new democracy. In reality, the Illuminati had been a utopian movement who wanted to replace religion with reason. But instead, they now became the first of a series of frightening suspicions that fed off the isolation of the settlers in the New World. One night (in 1958, somewhere in the vicinity of Whittier, Califo...
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