In ancient times China had a hundred schools of thought. After the Qin dynasty united the place & formed the first Chinese empire, they carried out a pro-gamer move called the 'burning of books and burying of scholars', and as a result we know the names of only 12 of the 100 today. Of those 12, only 3 - Confucianism, Legalism and Taoism - had any relevance whatsoever in the succeeding centuries.
Ideas can in fact be killed, you just have to start by obliterating all the degenerate academics propagating them (something well understood by even Iron Age Chinese dudes whose fastest method of communication was horse travel & who didn't have anything resembling the Internet), and Marxism's death sentence & damnatio memoriae is welllll overdue.
Who knows how many of those ideas resurfaced under new brands over time? IMO it is far better to study and develop permanent ideological and cultural countermeasures or bulwarks against them. The three you listed actually do cover a lot of cultural ground, so maybe the Chinese were doing a little of both. (eliminate, replace)
Killing anyone who promotes an idea can work as long as you have the power to do so.
In ancient times China had a hundred schools of thought. After the Qin dynasty united the place & formed the first Chinese empire, they carried out a pro-gamer move called the 'burning of books and burying of scholars', and as a result we know the names of only 12 of the 100 today. Of those 12, only 3 - Confucianism, Legalism and Taoism - had any relevance whatsoever in the succeeding centuries.
Ideas can in fact be killed, you just have to start by obliterating all the degenerate academics propagating them (something well understood by even Iron Age Chinese dudes whose fastest method of communication was horse travel & who didn't have anything resembling the Internet), and Marxism's death sentence & damnatio memoriae is welllll overdue.
Who knows how many of those ideas resurfaced under new brands over time? IMO it is far better to study and develop permanent ideological and cultural countermeasures or bulwarks against them. The three you listed actually do cover a lot of cultural ground, so maybe the Chinese were doing a little of both. (eliminate, replace)
Killing anyone who promotes an idea can work as long as you have the power to do so.
Unless we have the power to enforce our will then it's just talk.