Actually, Don, Akenaton plainly says in his post that to "break out the Red Banner and storm the Winter Palace" (your words) would probably result in "a civil war....which would be almost certainly lost and as Hawk says would result in a Fascist State".(his words)

Therefore he is not advising what you say he is advising. He is saying that change to this existing system is going to take a lot longer than most of us would like it to. And he is saying that we have to work change in the minds of millions of our fellow citizens in order to change things, and that will take some time. It may take a generation or two to do it.

I tend to agree with that.

Anyway, there's a problem in human relations that keeps happening here, and it goes like this: If you deliberately interpret (or misinterpret) another person's words in the way that best suits your low opinion of him, meaning in the worst way...rather than trying to understand what he is actually saying to you...you will probably be doing him an injustice and erecting a straw man in his place to hurl invective at.

It would be really handy for the gratification of the ego if everyone we disagreed with about politics was stupid, evil, wrongheaded, and an idiot to boot...but it just ain't so, Don. Yet people here keep dumping on other people as if it were so.