Curtis Smith
Kat Valentine Allwell@curtisysmith
I'm curious if there's any incidents in history of student movements on the side of the ruling class.
@katanova Someone on another platform mentioned the 1979 Iranian student movement that led to the Ayatollahs and the Chinese cultural revolution. Also the protests by white students against desegregating schools in the US south.
@curtisysmith
The Chinese cultural revolution is kind of... alright, i'm not super competent on my Chinese history, but I thought the communist party wasn't in power yet at the time of the Chinese cultural revolution?
Or wait, no, that's wrong, the communist party instigated the cultural revolution, and basically wrecked the whole country's existing culture.
Christian Tietze@katanova @curtisysmith In pre-Hitler southern Germany, there were loud communist students, but also very vocal would-be Nazis. Looking at how the resulting regimes on both sides of the spectrum worked out for Europe and Russia, I also think this quote needs to be constrained a bit more :)
@ctietze I agree that this statement is too absolute in nature. I never like absolutes