you could probably make me into a Stalinist with the following argument - Stalin was a paranoid mass murderer - who correctly identified that the USSR had about ten years to reshape its entire society in order to withstand an existential threat that would totally destroy it
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- that despite this same paranoia leading him to commit atrocities that actually hindered that preparation, he led the Soviet people to that goal through a mixture of inspiration and terror - and it worked - this is the kind of mobilisation necessary to survive climate change
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