Mine is that International Workers Day is May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket Affair, which happened in America where labor day is conspicuously much later in the year.

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The fact that Lenin thought there would be no socialist revolution in his lifetime, about one year before the Russian revolution happened.

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This is one of the best ones and should give us all hope.

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Lenin had a tuxedo cat that looks almost exactly like one of our tuxedo cats.

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During the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong stopped eating meat, and grew vegetables and kept rabbits in order to help alleviate the famine’s effects. Not much, but he did his part.

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Don’t know if this qualifies as trivia, but I love that Marx wrote “The Poverty of Philosophy” as a direct “fuck you” to Proudhon’s “The Philosophy of Poverty”. It cracks me up every time I think about it.

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Lol he was such a snarky little shit too, I love reading critique of gotha and seeing him get continually more pissed and tearing apart even single words as being opportunist or vague.

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