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>The most scathing analyses of Bolshevism I have heard have come from the likes of Chomsky and Zinn

Bolshevism yes, the political movement it belongs in general, no. Take Zinn for example: "Let's talk about socialism. I think it's very important to bring back the idea of socialism into the national discussion to where it was at the turn of the [last] century before the Soviet Union gave it a bad name."

>For all of its faults at least capital aggregation doesn’t have a moral prerogative behind it.

The protestant work ethic? The white man's burden? The various civic-religious views of the free-market and the invisible hand?

Or, Dr Bowring, an English economist said it in the 19th century: “Jesus Christ is free trade and free trade is Jesus Christ.”

Or maybe it's freedom itself? Friedman: "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself".

-- and tons of such colonial, and neo-liberal moral justifications, from the 16th century to Fukuyama end of history with the triumph of the one true system.