The people before us weren't perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world
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You just posted a meme and said leftists fight too much and here you are, fighting.
Dictator defenders can kiss my arse, whether they defend Hitler or Stalin. There are far cooler leftists to learn from than f**king Stalin. For example, Thomas Sankara was an actual decent person. Not to mention, the fact that former colonies of the USSR flinch at the word "communism" indicates that he wasn't doing it correctly.
That's cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this: