Ah, the horseshoe! One of the toolbag essentials of any self-respecting "critical thinker", crank, centrist, or "heterodox" illuminary. :D

Already bizarre when invoking the Soviets of all people, who were socially, outside of some avantgardists which were only tolerated as long as they were considered useful or irrelevant, extremely conservative.

But then again, to many a conservative, a leftist or progressive of any kind, is "a commie", and the difference between social democrats, different breeds of socialists, or communists for that matter, is already as lost on them as code is to a cat. Shit, according to recent trends, Hitler was akshually a leftist anyway. ;)

The same goes for contextualizing political violence; it's all the same, everywhere, all at once.