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Revolutionary Optimism Part 2

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Nov 29, 2024
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Morning Comrades.

As the superficially apparent contradictions of reality here in the “free, democratic West” become clearer by the day I am increasingly drawn to both Gramsci’s and Luxemburg’s notions of revolutionary optimism they created during the harshest periods of their times, over a hundred years ago when, respectively, their work was crushed and…

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