"Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!"
"Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!"
"Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!"
Leftists will be corrupted by the power of private property and refuse to destroy it, but then liberals, fascism, and climate change will foolishly grab for it and lead to its destruction?
Doesn't track for me
yeah wouldn't this work better with Elrond and Isildur?
Nobody alone has the will to relinquish temporal power, but seeing someone else be destroyed by that power helps us remember our cause.
I think it's more like even the most ideologically committed and true Leftists will never be able to destroy the material reality of private property while benefiting from the comfort its power provides under capitalism (and presumably especially while within the imperial core, here it being Mordor where it was literally impossible to destroy the One while inside Mt. Doom). Instead liberals will inadvertantly destroy private private property by accidentally and inevitably plunging into fascism and climate change due to their very love of, and desire to maintain, private property itself. Thus, leaving a space open for us in the subsequent rupture.
I still don't think it makes much sense since fascism won't destroy private property or capitalism per se, just the mask of liberal bourgeois democracy, and climate change may kill us all off entirely which is also not great.
But Leftist LotR meme good.
It kind of works as an allegory for well-intentioned socdems being radicalized into becoming actual leftists by watching how openly monstrous and ruinous liberals become as their system is placed under strain. The leftist distrust and opposition to liberals isn't idealistic, but rather is built on paying attention to history and looking past all the prevarication to the actual actions being done. Some people need to see that in action for themselves before they start to understand why leftists take the positions they do.
Then I was glad to be with you. Here at the end of all things.