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[outkast_3000]

revolutionary elisions - made a visit to the Revolutionary Martyrs Museum in Nanjing today, which commemorated those fallen comrades to the KMT in the year the KMT made their split from the Communist Party and the subsequent years where the KMT made their attempts to purge communist party members from - well, existence. the museum contained

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[ya_dont_say]

is martyrdom ... fruitless? or only when the cause is failed?

[outkast_3000]

perhaps more apt the question would be - what is a martyr? i use the words of the museum provisionally, these individuals were not martyrs. they were made martyrs.

martyrdom isn't fruitless - we have the world's most powerful religion (arguably) that stands as a testament to that - should we accept that jesus died for our sins (and why shouldn't we believe?).

but perhaps what one might have to reconcile with is that those "glory" days of "revolutions" past are over.

lastly, what does it matter if martyrdom fails? besides jesus, who could see the culmination of those efforts? that's what it means to live humbly for a cause. and that is precisely what these "martyrs" did...it is unfortunate that it has been spun into some fanciful political discourse for the consumption of tourist groups and visiting school groups.

revolution is primum signatum - these individuals weren't actively constructing the "revolution", they sought the means to make things "right".