Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this guy? Because he didn't kill a bunch of people in the pursuit of his Socialist ideals?
Bernie Sanders made this about him in the 1970s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w82pFvUq3o8
>>1254325
Fuck off leftypol
>>1254368
>implying
leftypol only worships murderous thugs like Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. They don't actually like socialists who don't engage in genocide.
>>1254389
>socialists who don't engage in genocide.
Ah, you mean the ones who never attain power or get killed as soon as they get it.
>>1254564
No I mean true socialists.
>>1254389
I don't think any communist I've ever met online or IRL likes Pol Pot.
> They don't actually like socialists who don't engage in genocide.
They sure like Fidel Castro
>>1254325
>Because he didn't kill a bunch of people in the pursuit of his Socialist ideals?
You don't think the American socialists would've committed democide on their opposition if they had won?
>>1255692
No because the Socialists in this country never advocated overthrowing the existing system as outlined by the Constitution.
>>1254325
In America, socialism = satanism, so the history of labour politics gets completely ignored
t. Howard Zinn
He was pretty cool.
Because he was an idiot
>>1255147
How many genocides has Castro orchestrated? I'm curious.
>>1260744
Oh sorry my b I completely misread that.
>>1254325
Because he was a fucking failure at best and treasonous swine at worst. Even Long did more work for the labor movement of the period.
>>1256617
>No because the Socialists in this country never advocated overthrowing the existing system as outlined by the Constitution
Fucking TR was shot by a socialist, you lying faggot
>>1261614
He wasn't a true socialist 2bh.