近代历史上共产党内部残酷的自相残杀运动莫过于肃反运动。 最厉害的是苏联共产党， 几百万人被流放西伯利亚（多数死亡），直接杀害一百多万人。 除了苏联共产党、东欧的和中国的也发生过多次肃反和清党运动。 这种内部残杀成为世界范围呢共产党的特色运动。 是一种共性。
美国黑帮内部也有类似的屠杀运动。 研究其特征和共性，不难发现其特点是：封闭性组织，恐怖统治，高度集权，严厉的一致性维护，等等。 不像开放的和平的民主的组织，内部矛盾通过表决来解决，黑帮和共产党内部的矛盾无法化解，只有不断升级，直到爆发。 不谈中共早期的肃反运动，就是在夺得天下后，有庐山会议那种爆发式的直接冲突，后来的文革，后来邓小平夺权抓四人帮。只不过因为时代进步了，不再是血腥屠杀，而是毛主席时代的路线斗争和政治斗争，邓小平政变式的抓捕，再到江泽民时代的以贪腐的刑事罪名抓捕陈希同，习王反腐可以说一场大规模的肃反整党运动，加上大规模的军队改革，可以说习近平有着一种极大的个人野心。当年苏联有契卡，现在有中纪委。历史就是如此的雷同。
再对比黑帮，美国黑帮杀人整肃内部异己分子往往是请吃饭请开会时突然下手。比如当年芝加哥黑帮老大杀不听话的分舵头目就是在年度大会上用棒球棍活活把该头目脑壳打碎。而中国四人帮被抓时就是被叫去开会，汪东兴带枪出现拿下。 陈希同、陈良宇、薄熙来以及后来的徐才厚郭伯雄等都是被叫去开会而一进入会场被持枪警卫拿下。 和黑帮手段如出一辙。
看西方世界所谓民主，多少明争暗斗舆论喧嚣，但至少是比较和平的、比较公开的竞争，当年小布什和戈尔没有打起来大开杀戒，现在希拉里和川普也没有血流成河。尽管缺点很多，但民主竞争毕竟是一种更加高级的人类文明活动形式。
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前天，美国著名NPR媒体有专题报道海航购买纽约州一个破烂酒店，有洗钱嫌疑。 现在海航已经成了西方媒体中的明星了。
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/10/27/560407035/episode-802-the-hotel-at-the-center-of-the-world
Episode 802: The Hotel at the Center of the World
SALLY HELM
NOEL KING
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Marcie LaCerte/NPR
Two years ago, one of the biggest companies in the world bought a failing hotel in a tiny rural hamlet in upstate New York. That made Planet Money reporter Noel King, curious. She grew up in the town and worked at the hotel as a teenager. Why, she wondered, would a multi-billion-dollar Chinese company invest in her hometown？
The HNA Group, the company that bought the hotel, started as a small airline in southern China. Today, it employs hundreds of thousands of people, and takes in billions of dollars of revenue. In the past three years, HNA has spent billions buying stakes in Hilton Hotels and Deutsche Bank. They own property on Park Avenue and eight golf courses in Washington State. They own the Radisson hotels, all of them.
What's behind HNA's buying spree? Why on earth did the company pay $13.8 million for the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa? And when are they going to fix it up?
The answers to these questions lead to us back to China, where government policies encouraged companies to look beyond mainland China and find their fortune in some places you wouldn't expect, including in a tiny New York mountain town.
