Beyond the obvious examples like Buttigieg.

Imagine being one of the most influential American Marxists of the twentieth century, then having your son get a job at the Soros foundation, then he later writes a hagiography for fucking Alexander Hamilton

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Material conditions are basal, but people still make their own choices. For every Buttigieg there's a Kropotkin or Engles.

    • T_Doug [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      True, leading to one of the greatest dunks in History (which might be too good to have actually happened)

      Nikita Khrushchev: The difference between the Soviet Union and China is that I rose to power from the peasant class, whereas you came from the privileged Mandarin class

      Zhou Enlai: True. But there is this similarity. Each of us is a traitor to his class.

      • PartyMonster [they/them,any]
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        4 years ago

        :dril: "im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob :corn-man-khrush:

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's one of those things where you can predict with incredible accuracy what 90% of a group of people will do, but if you're looking at an individual from that group there's no way to tell if they'll be in the 10% that do something unexpected.