The Rise of Far Left Extremism

[Metamorph]

Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.” are nothing but a tool for cultural subversion.

The bright state isn't Marxist-Leninists though. Marxist-Leninists don't believe that there's no such thing as truth and that the blood-dimmed tide of madness should be loosed on the world because that's the ultimate form of the oppressed turning on their oppressors. Marxist-Leninists didn't turn gay pride month into some sort of religious holiday (I like gay people, but seriously?) This isn't the Soviet Union.

[mfckrz]

This isn't the Soviet Union.

You're not wrong. It's shaping up to be something worse—insofar as the global implications of its anomie. At least the USSR's rot was largely contained within its own borders.

[Metamorph]

You're not wrong. It's shaping up to be something worse—insofar as the global implications of its anomie. At least the USSR's rot was largely contained within its own borders.

I did mean it was worse. We would end up blown back to the Stone Age but slinging nuclear waste in unidentifiable steel ruins with broken neo-bicameral minds and lead-heavy hearts if American politics continued in this direction without change. Fortunately, that's not going to be completed, but it's still not good a good trajectory to see to begin with.

[miss BabyDoll]

The bright state isn't Marxist-Leninists though. Marxist-Leninists don't believe that there's no such thing as truth and that the blood-dimmed tide of madness should be loosed on the world because that's the ultimate form of the oppressed turning on their oppressors. Marxist-Leninists didn't turn gay pride month into some sort of religious holiday (I like gay people, but seriously?) This isn't the Soviet Union.

the point of the quote wasn't to take every single part of it literally but to understand how the principle of useful idiots works. you can easily swap Marxist -Leninist with any current leftist ideology (albeit i'd still go on and call it cultural marxism) and it would still make sense.