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The folks who downvote me should read more history 🤣
The folks who are downvoting you have read history, enough to recognize your ahistorical bullshit for what it is.
We’re downvoting because we’re historical materialists, and no political tendency more closely studies history than we do. We know that you and virtually all liberals are fundamentally wrong about what drives history.
History is not predominantly shaped by charismatic leaders. That is ahistorical, idealist Great Man theory. History is predominantly shaped by the material conditions and from the bottom up, from which leaders arise, and their ideas don’t spring from their galaxy brains but from the conditions of the historical moment they happen find themselves in.