Completely not my point.
When leftists get into power after large-scale revolutions, they are historically weak to power opportunists within their ranks that wrest total (centralized) control. Even at small scale (organizations, even just groups of people), this happens unless it is actively prevented from happening.
This ideological insistence that "my side is incorruptible because we hold the one true ideology" is how it happens on *either* side, regardless of how well-meaning the movement is. People get lax and overly trusting, powertrippers take advantage, and you end up with the USSR or North Korea. Or Jim Jones. Or a smaller group with constant drama that alienates marginalized members.
I'm fully on team leftist, but as I study cults and the personality types that create them, completely aware that isn't enough to protect against these dynamics. When we get our utopia, I'd like to keep it that way.
#AbuseCulture
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸
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