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Guys, at this rate I don't think the revolution's going to happen anytime soon.

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[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 0 points 14 hours ago

Bingo. The only "worthy" leftist movements in these people's minds are the ones that failed, because they weren't tested under real world conditions. Anarchism in the Spanish civil war, Allende, those are fine to glorify because they ultimately lost, and that way you can keep your moral high ground and standards by worshipping an idealised version of them rather than real-life socialism with material and historical costraints