• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Yeah and I think 1) that was 175 years ago 2) that while a brilliant thinker on the subject of structures and inevitabilities, Marx was pretty naïve when it came to implementation.

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      19 hours ago

      Lenin’s push for participation in elections was due to the Duma which kept getting dissolved by the Czar for becoming increasingly anti monarchy. Between 1906 and 1917 several had been dissolved due to growing constitutional monarchy among the peasants.

      Without historical context it sounds like lenin advocated participating in all bourgeoisie elections.

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        16 hours ago

        Uh, no. The context is very clear, he offers it himself. He’s talking about movements in other countries, where class consciousness isn’t sufficient for more direct alternatives, specifically Germany. He didn’t mention the Czar or the Duma once in this text.

        You should really just read it, it’s pretty short.

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      1 day ago

      How dare you be reasonable and actually try and solve problems instead of just complaining and demonizing anyone who’s not left enough!

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        19 hours ago

        They did no such thing. They used a typical liberal approach by finding something that they think aligns with their ideology and claims ‘gotcha’

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          13 hours ago

          Lol, not even close. You’re just cynically using an ideology to make it say whatever you want. You might have better luck with religion. You’d get more support from other wackos and less people like OP completely destroying your position like what’s happening in this thread.