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.

  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Edit: also he would be the only communist character ever where a central flaw is reading too much theory.

    ok but have you seen Kautsky tho :lenin-walenin:

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Imagine being so radioactively wrong that random people online are still dunking on you more than 80 years after you die. :walter-shock:

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          :rosa: Eh, it could be worse. You could be the SPD and still be as radioactively wrong in exactly the same way as you were 100 years ago.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            :josus-stalin: Hey there social fascist party, how's it going?

            :this-is-fine: making deals with right-wing parties

            :yea: yea