Utopianism and idealism have long plagued the left, as Marx and Engels pointed out a century and a half ago. But these days, the leftists are tilting at wind...

This is actually quite good; addresses the western left's obsession with purity and martyrdom without producing a single useful result.

  • Zodiark
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    6 个月前

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      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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        3 年前

        Bolsheviks mostly fought against religious and nationalistic brainworms, capitalist propaganda in the modern sense didn't yet exist.

          • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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            3 年前

            They were even more idiotic than modern brainworms, but massive disillusionment with old society really helped.

            there’s probably always a period where radical ideology is disseminating through the masses and is mostly misunderstood you know?

            There was literally a joke about it:

            • Who you support: Bolsheviks or Communists?

            • I support the International!

      • apparitionist [none/use name]
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        3 年前

        uniquely large amount of people in the west who misunderstand socialism

        the most brainwashed and propagandized

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      3 年前

      Breadtube just wants a 2nd New Deal.

      I rest easy knowing they'll never get it

      • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 年前

        Its so funny considering its a total failure. What good was the New Deal when we are living in its consequences?

        • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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          3 年前

          Western "leftists" like the ones in the "breadtube community" have a fetish for failure. They can only support movements that didn't actually achieve much at all before being destroyed, only support leaders who were martyred, etc.