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.

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    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 years ago

        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!