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Agreed until you got to the Marx and Mao part, which is a bit "WUT?"
by api 9y ago
Agreed until you got to the Marx and Mao part, which is a bit "WUT?"
- chaostheory 9y agoWhy? Am I wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution To be clear, you do realize that I'm criticizing both Marx and Mao right?
- allenz 9y agoYou're taking them out of context. Marx didn't want revolution for revolution's sake. He had a specific change to the social order in mind, namely the cause of socialism. He wouldn't approve of the US.
- chaostheory 9y agoSo you're saying that the Women's Suffrage movement changed nothing? The Civil Rights movement didn't have any effect? The Sexual Revolution did little? What about the unions? I can go on. Are you saying that none of our bloodless revolutions made any changes to the social order?
- snakeboy 9y agoThey both wanted social revolution, but the execution of their plans lead to tens of millions of unnecessary deaths.