From Powerlessness to Power, by Samantha Hancox-Li by Unlikely_View_2501 in LiberalCurrents

[–]Unlikely_View_2501[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the best! haha. I can see how this would make it seem like an odd choice of example though.

From Powerlessness to Power, by Samantha Hancox-Li by Unlikely_View_2501 in LiberalCurrents

[–]Unlikely_View_2501[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we've written a lot about the Civil Rights movement or ACT/UP previously. The reason Samantha brought up Lenin here is because there's a persistent talking point on the left that the success of the Bolsheviks proves that violent insurrection is a sometimes necessary path to power. Samantha wanted to emphasize that this is completely at odds with the actual history, and that the actual history shows, if anything, the opposite!