Reading Left Wing Communism rn and Lenin says every worthwhile Revolutionary needs to learn to properly retreat in an orderly fashion. Only left-comms think that retreat is unnecessary or not respectable, true Revolutionaries know that they have more power in mixing the legal and illegal forms of resistance, not learning to retreat from an unwinnable battle means you’ll probably perish. To paraphrase a quote of his, He is not a genius who never makes a mistake, but the one who makes small mistakes and learns to easily and quickly remedy these mistakes becomes a genius with experience.