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Guerrilla History

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Is It a Good Idea to Be Right or a Bad Idea?

I feel like on the left we're more concerned with that egoistic position of being right and arguing with others in order to assert that we are in the correct position. I think it's important to have a balanced perspective you know I might be a little naive when platforming people whose ideas maybe are going to mislead people. We can fall into the position of thinking that at least theoretically rigorous and conceptually pure is a substitute for actually engaged action which is a sign of the weakness of the left. It's really a revolutionary pessimism because we're putting ahead of actual material material change our own sense of being correct and fetishizing abstract conceptual or theoretical purity over the real work. Red menace has

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