• Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    It's a pretty succinct distillation of the RadLib worldview. Only martyrs, never successful leaders. Only failed revolutions, never any that achieved national liberation.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Winning means selling out. You don't want to be a sell out, do you?

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            This is slightly less funny than it should be, because a lot of people actually seem to believe it.

            • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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              3 years ago

              I know, it's the same mindset as "if you display any emotion, you're irrational and therefore wrong"

        • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The violence required to change things may be less than violence required to maintain our current way, but it's still violence and therefore we're at an impasse :shapiro-gavel:

      • effervescent [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I can’t remember the exact quote, but somewhere in The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace character says something to the effect of this. When you’re small and unknown you convince yourself that the big players are sellouts and that your work is pure for being obscure. Then when you get big, you still judge yourself by those same metrics and it feels hollow