Opinion | Every Person With a Conscience Is a Revolutionary Waiting
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Revolutionaries sees the potential in human beings—they see our world's potential to become something vastly better than it is today.
  • TrumanShow_IRL [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    lib website:

    A revolutionary is, of course, someone who wants to overthrow the existing order.

    Marx's 150 year old manifesto:

    The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism.

    All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions.

    The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.

    The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.

    • wantonviolins [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is splitting hairs. For all intents and purposes, "bourgeois property" is the totality of the existing order in western countries, and in Marx's example of the French Revolution, feudal property was the existing order.

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    3 years ago

    when I've talked with people enough to know them I like to imagine what I think they'd do if like civil war/revolution broke out between good folks (socialism) and bad folks (barbarism). Not really anything in depth, just what side would they pick if shit hit the fan and they had to. It's fun and for some people it's realllly easy lol