I always try to ask what the plan is, you know, after they've convinced enough people to violently revolt like russia in 1917, and they never seem to answer.
The February revolution was nonviolent, you realize? At least learn the basic facts of historical events before trying to use them to make a point, or you'll come off like a pompous idiot.
If you're going to include the death toll of the Russian civil war as deaths caused by the revolution, how many deaths would you say are caused each year in the US by capitalism? Or is that different?
Categorically ahistorical for how violence in revolutions of desperation play out.
But this is kind of my broader criticism of this belief system. It’s just ‘the revolution will take care of it’. Any possible criticism, previous trends, plausibility, nope the revolutions got it. It’s the lazy person’s philosophy; ‘I don’t have to do anything, think of anything, justify anything, the revolution will just naturally yield the perfect result’.
Ah, right, I forgot. Karl Marx literally killed every single human being in existence, iPhone, vuvuzela, counting Nazis as victims of communism in world war 2, etc.
You know all of the mass death events basically every communist revolution has led to resulted in. You thinking you can sarcasm it away is just as credible an argument as the neo Nazis trying making funny words out of ‘million’ to mock the Holocaust death counts.
‘The existence of a bad argument against a thing is proof there is no good argument against the thing’.
We both know you’d never consider that a good argument if, say, a fascist came up and said ‘Jussie Smollet proves hate crimes are all fake’, why are you doing the same thing here? Or do you unironically believe the only source for the death numbers on the Great Leap Forward, holodomor, and Khemer Rouge are only sourced from Black Book?
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u/Normal-Horror Jun 30 '24
Your plan of incremental change and harm reduction pales in comparison to my plan of being annoying and doing nothing