Die Ziolkowski-Achse

“The problem with Ziolkowski arises from his intellectual environment, Biocosmism: the avant-garde of the Russian Revolution of 1917 soon discovered the injustice inherent in the communist idea. (…) According to the Biocosmists, a truly just communism would also have to be just in time. It would have to overcome death and bring the deceased back to life. Which, of course, leads to a lack of space on Earth. Hence: space colonies. Infinite communism in the endless expanses of outer space. 
However, the self-proclaimed misanthrope Ziolkowski and his biocosmist allies had other proposals for improvement as well — proposals that could easily have been integrated into the foundations laid by the rocket pioneers of Peenemünde …”
(Ralo Mayer)