"...No antidote for these evils will be perfect, but history tells me that trying to wipe them off the face of the earth will not work. Future generations, I hope, will develop new forms of activism based upon reality. Plenty of historical evidence suggests that such activism can work." DK
Activism can be either left, right, something in between, or some combination, and can most often result from some fourth or fifth thing, like war, famine, depression, plague, etc.
Activism is unfortunately never, ever, based on reality. It is not so much that there is not a very rough approximation to reality possible, at any one time, but rather that various activisms at that time are not based on it but rather on other things in isolation.
There is such a thing as an approximation to historical reality, but it is seldom or never seen, and evidence of it is interpretation rather than evidence.
New forms of activism in the past have not only not been based on reality, but also have long shown themselves to have lead to disaster, most especially for their ostensible beneficiaries.
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