Just a thread for fun, not condoning hero worship, it's just often inspiring to read about historical leftists' vitality and the personal details that make their writings a bit less abstract.
Let me start with Chairman Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers Chicago chapter who united poor workers of all races and spoke out against racial divisions in general and was assassinated by the FBI for it:
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I'm gonna have to go with Hamilton or anyone else from the American revolution.
Before you grill me for choosing a burger, hear me out. I hate America right now, it is the heart of capitalism and a shitty place to live. I'm worried about my family and all my friends who live here, I wish I could get them all to leave and live literally anywhere else.
However, we had a thread before about the American civil war where we basically established that there were only a few times America was good (WW2, ACW, and the revolution) and I fantasize about those times. Fighting against reactionaries, fascists, and imperialists are just a nostalgia trip for me tbh.
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Check out Thomas Paine if you haven't already. kpfa.org
Fidel Castro,Raúl Castro and Che Guevara. Cuban military as well as medical internationalism and Latin American literacy campaigns are second to none.
Jim Larkin: put the cause of socialism above sectarianism and nationalism.
I for one think it’s pretty cool that Che Guevara had over 3000 fags killed, and personally shot almost 100 execution style. Though you have to admit no one is a bigger badass than Mao, 150 million dead, hell of a kill count.
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Yeah tbf I hear Lenin personally executed the entity of Russia's population and replaced them with Jews.
