Who is your hero from history? - Lemmy
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For me it has to be Malcom X, I’m not American, but I read his autobiography when I was young and it left a life long impression on me about justice and resiliency. He grew up in an extremely oppressive society, his dad was murdered and his mother was sent to the loony bin and he was clearly lost and traumatized. When he went to jail he was smart enough to be like what the hell, why am I here? Educating himself and channeling his energy into caring about others and justice transformed him into one of the most powerful and well respected leaders of his time. He is often denigrated by Americans as violent and contrasted with King Jr. but by all accounts whenever he was in a position to project violence he chose de-escalation like during the Harlem riots and saved lives as there were people in the US in positions of military power who would have loved an excuse to do to them what they did to the indigenous across the entire country. He was angry but principled and really set a template for me about how to be a leader and help me process my own anger and channel it into something more positive.
  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    7 days ago

    I always hated the Leninist model of communism.

    Lenin betrayed the revolution because he lost the 1917 election.

    He dissolved the newly elected assembly 13 hours into it’s first meeting. (Not that the meeting lasted for 13 hours, they had adjourned for the day, and then Lenin declared them all Counter Revolutionary)

    That single act started the Russian Civil War.

    Then he has the gall to claim that the new totalitarian government he formed was in any way socialist.

    If the state owns everything, and you have zero say in what that state does, then you don’t live under socialism, you live under feudalism.

    The only path to socialism is via democracy.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    The vast amount that Lenin contributed to Marxist Theory and his vital role in creating the first Socialist State, which uplifted hundreds of millions of people and supported numerous anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements the world over, is absolutely worthy of praise.

    I’m sure the Ukrainians, Chechens, Georgians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Armenians and more resoundingly agree with this take

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      10·
      7 days ago

      There is a poll that “people” never wanted USSR to fall apart says the tankie but

      Let’s just ignore the referendums held with many relublics having high turn outs and 80-90% votes to leave lol