"... He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."--Karl Marx

I've been reading Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed, which is about the Russian Revolution. I swear, their libs were as horrid as ours:

[the next speaker was] an officer, delegate from the Vitebsk Soviet, a Menshevik oboronetz. " It isn't a question of who has the power. The trouble is not with the Government, but with the war ... and the war must be won before any change --" At this, hoots and ironical cheers. "These Bolshevik agitators are demagogues!" The hall rocked with laughter. "Let us for a moment forget the class struggle --" But he got no farther. A voice yelled. "Don't you wish we would!"

Reading that just made me shudder with recognition. I just wish we had the loud, proud, Bolshevik party today. Reading how the Bolsheviks just ran the officer over and didn't even let him get away with his lib bullshit really made me feel that whole "farce" thing. Without push-back, milquetoast bullshit like that is heard and accepted uncritically by the masses. However, push-back, even as wimpy as Bernie Sanders, is vilified by the media, leaving most people believing that there is no better choice.

People need to know that there are other options. We don't have to win the war/fix the economy/cure the Rona/pay down the National Debt/etc. before we start agitating for change.