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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by atomi on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:35PM (#24337662)
> Sure if you define anyone who wants to change things as leftist all revolutions are tautalogically leftist.

Most people understand this to be the case, _unless_ the revolution is _reactionary_ which is traditionally conservative.

> reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by anm89 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:44AM (#24338917)
Interesting. Had never heard of that before but it seems to make sense in most cases. I still think american neo nazis are a counter example. They aren't really trying to go back to something that ever existed.
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