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Old 08-22-2020, 04:20 PM   #7242 (permalink)
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From what I remember teasing this was actually am issue of contention in socialist parties in earlier days. Socialist parties in Europe that existed in more liberal and less repressive regimes were much more likely to want to work within the system and thus less radical. Ones that lived in more repressive regimes were more radical and unwilling to even entertain the idea of working with the government and more bent on revolution.

I think that's part of why the revolution never came in Western industrialized countries, only repressive backwaters like Russia, China etc. Despite the fact that Marx predicted it starting in countries more like France, Germany and England.
Well duh. Just look at us debating over voting and not voting rather than burning or not burning. It's all wishy washy bull**** and we'll still be in the same place in a hundred years if SOMEONE doesn't start burning something. Oh wait, someone is burning something. And getting something done that the voters aren't.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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