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In reply to the discussion: Libertarians and Communists: Two Sides of the Same Douchenozzle [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That corruption was about the siege mentality geopolitical isolation created in the USSR, combined with the bloodsoaked bipolar cynicism of Stalin.
It was never about staying committed to your priciples, and nothing the "centrists" did incrementally would have happened without radicals and revolutionaries pushing for deeper changes.
And nobody on any part of the radical Left has anything in common with Libertarians. Those people are driven solely by the desire not to care about anyone else-the radical Left, by contrast, struggles to transform the world, from the bottom-up, into a just and decent place for all-something incrementalists don't care about at all.
Your OP is smug and self-congratulatory, and you're not entitled to your sense of superiority.