this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You may or may not be making a valid point, but you need to be clearer about who you are referring to and in which context.

[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the meme is referencing a quote from marx that is greatly useful for dunking on idealist leftists who believe that the revolution can simply be wished into existence without all the dirty work.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you consider yourself a leftist?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Obviously they do, they are dunking on armchair leftists that judge every leftist movement on how perfect it is, but judge all liberal structures with supreme nuance.