Read "The Brothers", about John Foster and Alan Dulles.
This has everything you need to know about why you, if you're an American, think the things you do.
Read "The Brothers", about John Foster and Alan Dulles.
This has everything you need to know about why you, if you're an American, think the things you do.
I'm not going to find it now but couple of months ago I was visiting a typical Spanish town and saw a poster announcing party organized by the Communist Party of Spain. Just some beer and music. Normal thing. No one is scared of it here.
No one is freaking out about far right parties (except in Germany). Why would we freak out about the far left?
Or heard stories from old Poles. You could replace the start with "You only love CAPITALISM"
latest epstein distraction. McArthy hearings will legitimize more anti-communist ai data-centers. it's the new woke label
I don't know that it's as clean as this makes it sound.
Obviously communism was made to be the boogeyman. But it's not some panacea.
You're right, it's not some panacea. It's part of a spectrum that helps keep the overton window away from corporate oligarchy. By effectively banning communism and socialism for couple of decades Americans got left with corporate democracy and corporate oligarchy as the only choices.
In all cases, the inability of the vast majority to stand up to a very small minority is the crux of the problem.
Psychopathic narcissists will find their way to the top of any power structure if there aren't ways to actively prevent that or stifle it when it inevitably starts to happen.
Don't know if that's even possible. I suspect not.
Yeah that's what I think too.
Europe is kind of a possibility, we can have an outlier (like Orbàn) without it all crumbling down because we are so many. The system must change slow enough so that a human doesn't have time to change it enough. And rock solid institutions I guess.
Incorrectomundo. I hate communism because my family was repressed by Stalin.
Stalin saved europe from the Nazis, lol.
He was never an ally to Nazis. That's ahistorical. He signed a non aggression pact, just like all the rest of the powers at the time.
And he was the last one to do it, because he was begging the UK and France for an alliance against Germany.

The agreement 🤝 also included dividing Europe into spheres of influence. Which makes the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact the only agreement on that list not between two axis powers that can be morally condemned without the benefit of hindsight.
Sounds like he would do anything to buy time to build up an army that would go on to defeat the Nazis.
Like wasting soldiers and ammunition to invade Finland, also giving the Nazis another ally in the process?
You're blaming Finnish Nazis on Stalin lol?
Yes. Finland wouldn't have sided with the Nazis had Stalin not attacked them. Even more, the Soviet invasion of Finland shows that Stalin felt he could trust Hitler to honor the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Stalin trusted only one person in the whole world, and that was Hitler. Almost like a tragic love story, if they weren't both credible contenders for the title of "Worst Human in History".
ordered the execution of a German deserter for "misinformation", though it is unclear if this refers to Liskow or another German deserter
This is completely ahistorical. The entire reason Stalin signed the treaty is because he knew Hitler would attack the USSR eventually, and they needed time to prepare and also didn’t want to fight a war on two fronts (because the red army was busy saving China from the Japanese).
His only choice was to sign a treaty with Hitler, because Britain and France refused to become allies with Stalin. Britain and France thought it best to let the communists and fascists fight it out and hopefully destroy each other.
Stalin signed a non aggression pact and then began rapidly industrializing his country, knowing dman well that Hitler would eventually break the treaty.
Then Stalin defeated the Nazis.
You went off on a tangent. My point was why he believed Hitler, not why he allied with him.
Did he? Seemed like he was preparing to go to war with Germany for a long long time, lol.
By "divvy up Poland", you mean "soviet land that Poland took in the early 1920s", I'm sure.
Your knowledge of history seems entirely non existent, besides "enemies of my capitalist imperialist genocidal empire are bad and have always been bad, despite literally saving the world from the Nazis"
Lmao, yeah buddy, any history book. Maybe start with a glance at the Wikipedia page
After having a secret pact with Hitler to split Europe. For countries like Poland the WW2 occupation didn't end until 1989, because USSR "saved us Nazis" by imposing their own regime.
The reason why Russia doesn't even recognize WW2 and call it The Great Patriotic War that started in 1942 is exactly because Stalin worked with Nazis through Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Hitler backstabbed Stalin via Operation Barbarossa.
He also aided the Nazis in their fight against German communists and hurt China's revolution.
So a flawed person like the rest of us.
He also aided the Nazis in their fight against German communists and hurt China’s revolution.
Gonna need some sources on both of these.
If you're an ahistorical imperial propaganda enjoyer, sure, I guess?
Double genocide theory is literal fascist propaganda, which even has its own Wikipedia page, lmao.
a term used to refer to the claim that the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union against Eastern Europeans constitute a genocide that was equivalent in scale and nature to the Holocaust, in which approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany. The theory first gained popularity in Lithuania after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991
Scholars have criticized the double genocide theory as a form of Holocaust trivialization.
And you're saying that that excess mortality is the same as the systematic genocide of over 10 million people by Nazi Germany? That makes you a Nazi apologist and a holocost trivializer. Very lib of you, lol.
Lmao. To know someone as stupid as you thinks I'm a moron makes me immensely proud. Re read that double genocide theory page and understand that you are repeating literal historically documented fascist propaganda.
Lmao, die fascist.
Stalin was a totalitarian dictator that happened to lead a country experimenting with socialism/communism.
Does Trump's treatment of certain groups represent the totality of what is possible under capitalism?
To be clear, I'm not a fan of Stalin or Trump. It just seems weird to hate a political theory/ideology because a power-hungry asshole said it was his ideology.
A power hungry asshole was in charge under this "system". It will happen again. This is what always happens. Those systems do not work.
Which systems? Democracy? Communism? All systems?
Democracy, capitalism, communism.
It doesn't matter how you change the rules of the game, the psychopathic mass murderers always adjust and find the way to the top.
If the system doesn't matter, then why do you specifically hate communism?
Oh, but it does.
If the population is kept uneducated, poor, and fearful they don't have the energy, understanding, or organization to keep the assholes in check. It's way easier turn a country to dictatorship and/or fascism when everyone is stressed and struggling.
There is no perfect system, but they are systems that can build a population that is at least asshole resistant.
Ideology and education does help though. We need a system with antibodies against self serving sociopaths rising to power.
That's the sweet thing with democracy, you kick them out without needing a bloody revolution.
It doesn't seem to be working in the USA now, is it? They find a way to brainwash the masses into voting for them.
Brainwashing starts with deprivation. Those with wealth in the US have been manipulating the system into serving the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country. It isn't an inevitability, it's a flawed underlying system and a capitalist class willing to take advantage of every opportunity to cement their own power.
Who the hell thinks the USA of all places is a full fledged democracy lol.
Stalin was the most popular person in the USSR for his entire time in the CPSU, and could have been ousted at any time had this changed. It would have been antidemocratic to depose him.
Does popularity imply ethics? Morality? Soundness of policy?
What exactly does "antidemocratic" imply? Are antidemocratic activities intrinsically wrong?
My grandmother in law was dragged before the KGB to answer why her 4 year old had coloured the colours of thier territories flag (before annexation into the USSR).
I think it's pretty naive to reject that people could genuinely have grievances against a government or government policy. Slavery was popular. Gang rape is very democratic.
Although thier issues were with a government and not the concept of "communism", I think the onus is on you to charitabley acknowledge that distinction. Being the grown up comes with infinitely more responsibility than privilege... and people who don't understand that aren't actually the grown ups.
The idea that Stalin was simultaneously a totalitarian dictator while also being tremendously popular among the people presents a false reality. Either Stalin was a genuinely unpopular ruler with total control, or he was a popularly supported and therefore legitimized leader of a socialist country. Regarding the questioning of your grandmother, I think what's at most to blame is the reactionary nationalist elements that the soviets were forced to take seriously, as they did indeed become vectors for terrorism within the Soviet Union.
So you had a family of Nazis?
Nazi adjacent then?
What's wrong with you? Are you trolling to abuse your mod "powers"?
What a life you must have.
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