Don't you know that any potential leader is probably just a grifter? If you want to build an effective leftist movement, you have to have no leaders whatsoever. Directionless resentment is surely the only way forward.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The last time someone successfully controlled Afganistan he was named Alexander the Great. A good chunk of those Pashtuns are the remains of his armies. They don't fuck around with johnny-come-lately amateurs.

    • ChudlyMcChubbyPants [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Noice. I did not know that far back. The Art of Not Being Governed is still in my get-to pile.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Invaded and burned, yes...conquered...well technically they were in the Mongol sphere, practically not so much. Timur had to burn it down al over again. Aghans can't catch a break.

        • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Timur showed up over 100 years later, though. A few cursory searches seems to indicate that the Mongol Empire held the territory for quite a while after the conquest in 1221. (Alexander's empire, meanwhile, fell apart when he died...)