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An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote

What's super interesting for me about some of these first quotes here is in relation to the argument I hear from some decent marxists and others around how the climate crisis is hopeless unless we were to get some kind of global authoritarian system in place that dictated the massive changes necessary for general survival of our lifeways.

A least in the case of Mao, it's quite clear that the top-down imposition of ideology was really very bad. There was a part of me that thought that even though it was completely undesirable, an authoritarian regime might be in some sense effective. But now, thinking about this and the various ways mass-scale ideology imposition would be disastrous, even if relatively deeply thought. So now I'm wholly skeptical.

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