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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Revolutions are long-term work. They are not nor ever have been overnight affairs throughout history.

Now there's an adage attributed to everyone's favoritr 20th century revolutionary actor: "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."

These are to be taken into account together. Don't mistake those weeks as separate or independent from the decades.