1. People say that @bronzeagemantis on the right or @leninology on the left are modest accounts with little influence. This is naive. Jesus started with 12 disciples. The Chinese Communist Pary’s 1st congress had 12 people at it. The Nazis started with 60.
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2. These accounts & the people behind them have more clout than the CCP, Jesus, or the Nazis did at the beginning. People always laugh at these movements at the beginning...but all it takes is a few quirks of current events to put determined men in power.
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3. Always take determined men seriously, even if they seem “small fry” now. A lot can happen in a few short years.
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4. Carlyle’s words about Mohammad are also relevant here: “Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. In one man's head alone, there it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it; there is one man against all men.”
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