CommunistBarbie [she/her]
Does anyone else ever think about dying? Bimbo Marxist.
SOCIALIST AND LIKES BEER
:helen-keller:
It’s infuriating how even the history of Helen Keller is tainted by ableism
Helen Killer: “I am socialist. The workers must own the means of production.”
Liberals: “omg she can talk. this is all we will teach kids about.”
Edit: took out even an exaggeration of an ableist insult
Text for those with screen readers:
This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: “Who was right?”
In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.
Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who be. lieved too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported what the rich countries said, rather than what they did.
That group was annihilated.
Good. More people should free animals from those abysmal slaughterhouses
@JucheGang - y’all got a weird paper
my legal defense when I get caught executing landlords while riding a sybian
:comintern: :iron-soviet:
Gonna buy a kalishnikov as a bit.
Gonna buy a kalishnikov as a bit. ATF agents can’t arrest you if it’s a bit.
