Reddit mentions of Diplomacy (Touchstone Book)

Well you see, the reason I defend Operation Condor and Cold War FP is because of this debate about the best form of government.

Let's say group A wants to form a Marxist vanguard party and wishes to suspend democracy due to democracy being a tool of the bourgeois. So they run in the next election says they want to suspend democracy to give the people the true power through a dictatorship of the proletariat. Sounds pretty cool right? Labor rights, free stuff, worker's paradise! Sounds like the kind of political system for me. Except, oh no, it doesn't work like that. Instead of a worker's paradise, it devolved into a secret police state where no property, personal, economic, political or spiritual rights exist. Well shit, what am I supposed to do now?

My point is that yeah, we should kill people that meet two criteria, those criteria being:

1. The desire to act out a totalitarian state, dismantling natural rights in favor or greater control of the state in people's lives and
   
   
2. The ability to carry out said desires.
   
   So no I don't think we should bust into every fourteen year old's room that browses /r/LateStageCapitalism and murder them, but if they grow older, begin to voice totalitarian, anti-market opinions, begin to arm up and talk of revolution, then yeah let's get some deathsquads.
   
   If nazis were a credible threat to our democracy, we certainly should eliminate them, the same for the anarchists, socialist and other totalitarian ideologies.
   
   Pinochet, Franco, Salazar and Peron were hardly totalitarian, they were people who just wanted to see their country do better. Now, thanks to their efforts, those countries all enjoy successful liberal democracies today.
   
   I have some reading lists which would be better than reading internet forums posted anonymously about political economies that have never worked.
   
   The Condor Years
   
   Diplomacy by Kissinger
   
   Bloodlands: The Land Between Hitler and Stalin
   
   The Black Book of Communism
   
   

Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger covers that era pretty well.

https://www.amazon.com/Diplomacy-Touchstone-Book-Henry-Kissinger-ebook/dp/B006ID6UAW/

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Great-Powers-ebook/dp/B004774792/