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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People like heroes, alive or dead. Them being dead is just beneficial to those rewriting their history.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Useful because of how we treat the dead and their memory.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Useful because they can't argue, disprove, or otherwise disrupt the use of their person as a "perfect" hero of the movement.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Okay, yeah, the culture it starts in is never culpable for any vulnerabilities it may or may not have to Nazism.

There was nothing we could've done and there's nothing we can do except pure violence. No preventative measures for next time. It could have been no other way.