Lenin's Tomb writes most uncarefully: "The point is to have a critical relationship to the changes that have been achieved and to correctly perceive their limits."
What am I supposed to be critical about in regards to the end of Jim Crow or colonial rule or the legalization of abortion or the de criminalization of most forms of anal sex? Yes there may be limits to what has been achieved but that is not the same as being critical in regards to was heroically achieved at the expense of the destruction of many, many heroic lives. Those are unalloyed gains. The organic proletarian intellectuals of LBO-talk would be smart to learn from the ways in which these activists changed the world rather than patronize them about their secondary concenrs. .
Rakesh