• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      Dunno why 1848, but those students on the streets of Vienna whom “dear father field marshal” Radetzky hanged on many lanterns were not leftist. They were pretty republican-nationalist, right liberal that is.

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          7 months ago

          I don’t get your thought process. The original incidents were Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

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        7 months ago

        Only the fringe lunatics think it’s even possible to disarm a population. Far lefties like myself realize the power that small arms represent in the fight against fascism. Marx said to arm up.

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          7 months ago

          Marx also assumed that revolution eventually leads to a communist utopia.

          Thus far they have only led to authoritarian regimes. Even Cuba is little more than a benevolent dictatorship.

          Weapons are a good way to combat other weapons, not ideology.