ngl, one of the most important drivers of my radicalization was realizing every based person in modern history was either a communist or supported by communists.
Mine was getting a job lol
Also mine lmao
hence the “one of”
Is this great person theory?
/joke
Who’s that on the bottom row second from the right?
Yuri Kochiyama
yeah we’re gonna need to remake this one with a replacement for Angela Davis
Is it a “cross the odd one out” game ? Because Angela Davis is (at best) radlib leaning rather than a tankie.
Went from Tankie to Radlib.
Eh, I’d personally dispute the inclusion of Angela Davis and Nelson Mandela, given that they both turned out to be just liberals.
Mandela was an armed Guerrilla and a member of the SACP.
I’m aware, but he ultimately instituted liberal policy and was way too charitable to boers. While some decisions he made was undoubtedly a product of the international situation, it remains that he capitulated a ton and was incredibly in favour of the neoliberal GEAR policy.
I wouldn’t say “turned out”, but “became”
I don’t like framing Mandela as a liberal. He became president in a very difficult international situation, where the USSR had fallen, neoliberalism and globalization ideology was taking over the world and South Africa had just dismantled apartheid. Not to mention he was old when he assumed the presidency and spent most of his life in prison. Mistakes had been made in his term, but I can’t blame him.
I’d agree with this when it comes to domestic fiscal or economic policy, obviously it’d be quite dangerous to do something that the west would’ve found offensive (i.e nationalising the economy) and risk getting coup’d or worse, but there’s plenty of other things that I seriously doubt had anything to do with the end of the cold war. Namely, his opinions on Zionism, refusal to show solidarity with Aboriginal Australians, and being way too charitable in his assessment of De Klerk and Suzman (for context, she was against BDSing SA and was basically just controlled opposition). It’s one thing to reluctantly go along with the Washington consensus in the hopes that America won’t interfere, it’s quite another to basically abandon all your beliefs in the name of “reconciliation” with people who were opposed to you having freedom.
