Communism is wealth seizure.But communism requires surveillance.Here’s how to see that.In 1918, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin gave an order to murder 100 nearby “kulaks.” By that he meant the kind of peasant who might have two cows.An under-appreciated aspect of Lenin’s order is that it required a list. That is: the communists couldn’t murder the kulaks without actually having a list of kulak names and locations.Moreover, the poor kulaks were tied to those locations, like farmers tend to b ...

POSTSCRIPT(a) Please note: the intended purpose of the California wealth seizure referendum is to rob or exile everyone in tech. There is no point in complaining about this as being stupid.(b) Rather than stupid, it is intentionally evil. The reason is that Democrats fear that technologists might actually displace their control over California, and so they are striking first. The goal of the Democrats is to drive tech out of California, like they did the Republicans, so they can enjoy permanent one-party co ...