It’s kinda weird to have tons of huge portraits of just 1 person instead of art celebrating the masses or many different people or whatever.

I understand the impulse but now that we know enough to know that great man theory is a harmful way to think about events, how do we prevent large populations from falling into that hero worship mindset in future communist countries?

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Everyone forgets he changed his public name to Galeano too.

    • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yep - he really went all the way with it - Commandante Marcos is now a historical personality.