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[–] HeavyBrain ago 

Left wing systems are supposed to be the opposite of the authoritarian systems of the right

Exactlly SUPPOSED.

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[–] Release 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago  (edited ago)

Exactlly SUPPOSED

Left wing systems are of greater benefit to the majority of people, but they cannot be implemented for that precise same reason. We already live in a world where power is not distributed equally, and those with power do not want to lose it. Many historical figures have used the rhetoric of the left, but only to gain power for themselves. Many more did so inadvertently, without ever starting out with that intention.

If you read Marx it is obvious where the left made its mistake and that was the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. A bloody and savage coup ordered by Lenin, which took it away from Marx's argument that intellectual revolution was the only way to overthrow capitalism. Lenin saw the people as sheep kept fat on a diet of Tsarist propaganda -- which, in fairness, they largely were -- and decided he was going to educate them by force.

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[–] HeavyBrain ago