• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I think people need to start looking at having the right views as a privilege resulting from being exposed to convincing arguments.

    from having a political education, in general, more like. I've pointed this out before, but most leaders and theoreticians of the working class political movements dating back to the first international were not proletariat. They were often prosperous peasants (Mao, Lenin, Kim Il Sung), bourgeois heirs (Castro, Engels, Luxemberg, Liebknecht, Marx), children of political officials (Chen Duxiu, co-founder of CPC), or officer-class in a military (Sankara, Gaddafi).

    Very few leaders of the actual proletariat movements were themselves proletariat, probably because raising children, working full time, and trying to keep up with fitness and health make it harder to be a professional revolutionary.