• DayOfDoom [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    The western leftist need for moral purity in their political strain that serves as little more than a religious effigy. Because we’re so far from actually gaining any sort of power as a communist in the imperial core, people attracted to communism right now basically just have the “at least I’m on the right side of history” as one of the few benefits of becoming a communist. And if you’re going to be on the right side of history, you want to be on the most right side of history.

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      10 months ago

      Many western leftists see politics as a personal quest for atonement and personal virtue, and have little concern for things like pragmatism or seizing power. In fact, doing those things would sully their general utopian purity by marring it with specific pragmatic actions and imperfect policies

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          10 months ago

          Those little kinder kulaks and their comprador mothers, hording the Pokemon Trading Cards from me at the Target… Just because I wish to resell them at a profit, marxistly.