• kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    he was one of the founders of the british communist party lol

  • Gelter [they/them,e/em/eir]
    1·
    4 years ago

    what do you mean their username is soviet muffin

    they totally understand communism

    also to /c/the_dump_tank

    • GamerCastro [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In one of the Asassins Creed games he’s basically just a labour organizer/speech giver who says stuff a long the lines of “peace is the only way to achieve socialism”

      • buh [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        they might as well have made him say verbatim "vote blue no matter who" at least it would have been worth a laugh

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "Please don't destroy precious property, that's a violence."

        -Karl Marx, Assassin's Creed Syndicate

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          4 years ago

          'We can assassinate people, but we can't destroy property', even for a video game that's dumb

          • Koa_lala [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yes

            "Killing people and destroying property solves nothing. Democracy is the only road to socialism." ―Karl Marx rejecting violence as a method to achieve the emancipation of the working class, 1868. https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Karl_Marx

            https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSaEE7xUkAEe6FK?format=jpg&name=large

            • kilternkafuffle [any]
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              4 years ago

              The first sentence kinda captures the ethos of the Emancipation of Labor Group, the first Russian Marxists - whom Lenin eventually joined. They were critical of the then dominant People's Will, a leftist terrorist movement that thought the only path to revolution was to bomb and assassinate as many bureaucrats, capitalists, and royals as possible. But, of course, the didn't eschew violence altogether.

              The second sentence is revisionist Marxism ala Eduard Bernstein, rejected by the vast majority of Marxists, never would have left Marx's lips.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I remember trying to make the case that MLK's peaceful protests wouldn't have been successful if the more militant philosophies in which Malcom X and the black panther party waded weren't there to provide a backbone to the cause. The guy I was talking to cited a movie in which Gandhi's efforts were actually frustrated by the efforts of the militant wing of India's liberation cause.

    My supporting evidence turned against me because he cited a fucking movie. Why do I even try? I tell myself I won't, but I just keep talking.

    • AntiVolcelAktion [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I've heard, but not verified, that the only reason gandhi got his way is because the anglos were getting rekt by the militants and wanted defeat with the delusion of honor. any sources with truth to this?

      • extraterrestrial5 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Passive resistance is about forcing authorities to use the prison state apparatus for silly unjust laws, so maybe?

        • AntiVolcelAktion [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          nah, i heard the actual resistance, the ones with guns, were winning in the more rural parts to such a degree that they chose to give in the ineffectual parts like gandhi.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I don't even think you can argue against that (your point that is), its like classic good cop bad cop stuff. Of course its more effective with a militarized group to make you look reasonable and tbh we need that now.