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  • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's one of my favorite quotes from Disco Elysium, on the pretty similar topic of "If no one can agree what real communism even means, and the rest of the world keeps killing us for our beliefs, what's the point?"

    Steban, the Student Communist - "Oh! And, gendarme. One last thing. About that question you asked earlier. It reminded me of a certain poem that you might appreciate. It was written by a young communard who was killed on the barricades during the Coalition landings. The story goes that he wrote it on the last night of his life, keeping watch from the barricades in the middle of the night. I don't have the whole thing committed to memory, but there's a line in it I think about sometimes."

    Harry - "What's the line?"

    Steban, the Student Communist - "'In dark times, should the stars also go out?' Anyway, goodnight to you."