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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

I'm noticing a lot of people taking "you should read more about this, here are some book recommendations" as insulting their intelligence.

This is relevant because most USians lack a political education.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 104 points 9 months ago

Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 76 points 10 months ago

This is the first 911 since the reddit refugees oh geez this will get messy

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago

The title is literally comparing him to a monarch. I do not think it will be even handed.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sending a fuckload of people to clog up the Nazi meat grinder with their bodies isn't heroism

Except that is just the "mongol horde" myth spread by the nazis. The soviet military was a modern military which fought as a modern military. The "not one step back" order was directed at higher officers who favored unnecessary withdrawals at the expense of ceding territory that the nazis would start exterminating and of leaving the flanks of other army formations vulnerable.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 80 points 10 months ago

The famine being a genocide was misinfo spread by nazi publications such as hearst press. The misinfo was used as justification for murdering Jewish people as "soviet collaborators"

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 78 points 10 months ago

Stuka username claiming others aren't concerned about Ukrainians lmao

Remind me what the nazis did in Ukraine again?

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 95 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OP determining whether to believe the US about socialist movements

us-foreign-policy

Also look up double genocide theory and stop trivializing the holocaust by calling communists fascists.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 70 points 10 months ago

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 115 points 10 months ago

For more information, research "surplus army of labor", "primitive accumulation", and "accumulation by dispossession".

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I've seen too much of this. No, the nazis and the Soviets were not equivalent.

Do. Better.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 78 points 10 months ago

Remember when Obama saw the largest transfer of wealth away from black US citizens to the wealthy in the history of the United States?

Remember when he set the precedent that it us cool to assassinate US citizens in the open (as opposed to covertly) without trial?

Honestly I get being mad at "Obama's biggest controversy was the mustard"

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 90 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  1. Flying in the southwest zone isn't aggressive

  2. Both countries agree that the territories they occupy are both China

  3. Taiwan is literally a settler colonial state that massacred the indigenous inhabitants when the KMT retreated there

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 87 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Begging my population to have kids instead of doing anything to address the conditions that make it impossible for enough of them to have kids

Oh yeah

Move over material analysis, It's idealism as politics time

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It is 2023 and DSA can't get its act together about apartheid being bad.

Christ.

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