My warning to you: pay attention before it is too late.
that he fled socialism in the Russia with his family in 1979 and does not want California to end up in the same place.more space to his girlfriend than to his argument.
Progressives on X dismissed the warning as hysterical billionaire bluster over a modest five percent tax. Unfortunately, it’s not hyperbole. The reflex to call it hyperbole is the warning sign itself. I am American, but my family is Czech.
Brin reaches for Russia because it is his story. I reach for Czechoslovakia because its example is even harder to dismiss. The two histories tell the same tale, and that tale runs straight through California today. before the Bolshevik revolution was richer than it had ever been. It industrialized rapidly on a gold standard ruble afterSavva Morozov , one of Russia’s richest industrialists, wrote checks to the Bolsheviks.
So did much of Moscow’s commercial elite. They thought proximity to the revolution would protect them from it. It did not. In 1938, my parents’ native Czechoslovakia was richer, freer, and more sophisticated still.
It was one of the most industrialized nations in Central Europe, with high literacy, a stable currency, and the only functioning parliamentary democracy left between Berlin and Moscow. The communists’ strength came not from coal miners but from the salons of Prague and Brno. Professors, novelists, theater directors, and editors of every important literary review championed the left. Some members of my own family were openly sympathetic to progressive politics.
, the communists seized the ministries one by one under cover of legality. Nationalization laws and decrees confiscated agricultural property and general property. Roughly ninety thousand Czechoslovaks faced political persecution over the next six years. The enabling elites went first.
They were arrested, expropriated, and worse.every nation except the United States, China, and Germany. It is strong and dynamic. It sets the pace, in Governor Newsom’s own words.the checks to fund our state’s and our nation’s self-destruction. They sponsored the foundations that captured universities.
They bankrolledwho refused to prosecute violent criminals. They paid for climate catastrophists, DEI consultants, open borders activists, and campaigns to “defund the police. ” They thought they were purchasing credibility and the right side of history. Instead, they were buying their own rope.
Brin himself offers the textbook case. He was a major Obama donor who called Trump’s 2016 victory deeply offensive. This year he emerged as the second largest individual donor in California,prosecutors , then the streets. Capture the language.
Capture the institutions. Demonize a productive class. Refuse to prosecute your own while selectively prosecuting everyone else. Treat property as theft and theft as a civil right.
Drive the productive out, then blame them for leaving. The Russians who could warn us are dead. The Czechs of my grandparents’ generation who witnessed first-hand the destruction of their country are mostly dead, too. The handful still alive beg Americans to recognize the pattern before the next stage begins.
We are in the midst of a Communist Revolution in California, and perhaps the nation writ large. Democrats now openly identify asBut it is underway, and any honest reading of the histories sketched here should leave you motivated to fight back rather than resigned to whatever comes next.
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