• Parodper@foros.fediverso.gal
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    9 hours ago

    That’s just the result of violent revolution, necessarily carried out by people so convinced that their ideology is right that they’ll use violence to assert it. Revolution requires unity, so dissidents present a real risk to a nascent movement.

    I’ve heard it phrased as the Bolsheviks never really leaving behind their «underground party» phase.