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Against Losurdo (newintermag.com)

submitted 3 months ago by plinky@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net

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debatable if it's slop or theory, but probably comrades will soon meet these arguments in the wild, and not that one has to abandon all theoretical considerations over geopolitical realism of the 20th century.

although it's all rather useless, treatlerism stays undefeated whether one thinks stalin was correct or not, got money from cia or not, decided to become culture critic or not

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

I have a really bad sense of rhetoric most of the time, so take it with a grain of salt, but I think at least with some audiences one way of approaching this is by explaining errors and misdeeds on Stalin's part that they aren't even aware of (or even just that they don't take as particularly bad but we do) to establish "I'm not arguing that Stalin did nothing wrong, I'm arguing that many of your specific accusations are at best exaggerated and in some cases just fictional".