It amuses me when people get upset about this, regardless of why: "Communism isn't very Marxist."
Show me a movement true to its origins.
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I picked that statement because it seems to kick off communists and critics of communism in equal measure, but it applies very broadly.
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A great many influential thinkers have been co-opted into ideologies far, far removed from their own stances on pretty much anything.
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I'm sometimes glad I'm just an unknown Twitter user. I'd be quite unhappy to see my ideas used to defend ideas I abhor.
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My reading list is full of thinkers whose works have been paraded by major ideologies. I expect very low correlation w/said ideologies.
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