What Comes Next II: March Violets and Long Knives
25th January 2021
Severian draws some parallels.
Here again, trying to predict specific events is a mug’s game. However, as I said in the comments to the previous post, revolutions — which, let’s recall, are by definition ideological — have to do certain things. They’re “historical necessities,” as Marxists might say, but it’s not “History,” capital-H, which makes them necessary; rather, it’s the ideology. A Machtergriefung not followed by a Gleichschaltung will be over before it starts.(1) Which means March Violets and Long Knives are on the menu in some form….