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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006
just buy and read Late Victorian Holocausts if you want to go from left-liberal to Full Tank

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A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011

Peel posted:

how does the ukrainian famine under the soviets compare with the colonial famines under the british

there was no ‘Ukrainian famine’ and thus no Holodomor. It was a Soviet Famine

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

just buy and read Late Victorian Holocausts if you want to go from left-liberal to Full Tank

i did that's what brought on the question

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
loving european imperialists killed more people and brought more ruin to societies around the world than communists could ever dream of. 500 years of rape, pillage, and subjugation in the name of god, sovereign, and treasure.

Work Friend Keven
Oct 24, 2015

I'M A BIG STUPID IDIOT WHO GETS TRIGGERED FROM THE WORDS SPORTS BALL AND HAS SHIT OPINIONS ABOUT CARD GAMES. ALSO I SAID I WAS GOING TO QUIT HEARTHSTONE OUT OF SPITE OF A TAIWANESE WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SO REPORT ME IF YOU SEE ME POST IN A HS THREAD
True. But also, the soviets did Holodomor.

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


Work Friend Keven posted:

True. But also, the soviets did Holodomor.

And you are Holodomoring Ukrainians

Impermanent
Apr 1, 2010
The holodomor definitely means that we'll be much safer weathering oncoming famines produced by climate change under the glorious and efficient mechanisms of capitalism, rather than any sort of evil, authoritarian communism that tries to distribute limited resources evenly.

zen death robot
May 27, 2001
what if I think socialism is good but the Soviet Union did it badly?

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

probably posted this earlier in the thread but as comrade reagan said, there ya go again




Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

zen death robot posted:

what if I think socialism is good but the Soviet Union did it badly?

Serf
May 5, 2011


zen death robot posted:

what if I think socialism is good but the Soviet Union did it badly?

socialism has very little in common with state capitalism

Aeolius
Jul 16, 2003

Simon Templeman Fanclub
It's a moot point because socialism "done badly" is still incalculably better for the vast majority of humanity than capitalism at any level of efficiency you choose, and it's counterproductive to argue over pennies in a pot of gold.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i can't believe a country that tried something totally different from the dominant system for the first time and with world-historic interventions and disruptions made mistakes

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/timurka128/status/937374082953371649

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

zen death robot posted:

what if I think socialism is good but the Soviet Union did it badly?

Gulag

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
Manhattan equity director mauled to death by shark while scuba diving off Costa Rican coast
:ussr:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


That shark is a Hero of Socialist Labor

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

the jacofins strike again

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


Pener Kropoopkin posted:

That shark is a Hero of Socialist Labor

what part of the shark do we pin this on

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

After being compared to financial douchebags for decades, sharks have finally gotten sick of the slander.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Serf posted:

socialism has very little in common with state capitalism

what does state capitalism have to do with the USSR?

NEP ended under Stalin.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007


rich person killed off place named rich coast by animal idolized by rich people :discourse:

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

R. Guyovich posted:

probably posted this earlier in the thread but as comrade reagan said, there ya go again






What book is that?

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

resar posted:

What book is that?

bro, seriously? check out the top of each page.

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
man why the gently caress did I just read four pages about Soviet grain distribution??

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

R. Guyovich posted:

probably posted this earlier in the thread but as comrade reagan said, there ya go again




"On 25 July 1932, Stalin, in a letter to Kaganovich, mistakenly claimed that in the USSR as a whole 'the prospects of the harvest...are without any doubt good'"

hmm

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Autism Sneaks posted:

man why the gently caress did I just read four pages about Soviet grain distribution??

marxism-leninism.txt

Peel
Dec 3, 2007

i'd make a 'just wait till you hear about the linen coats' joke but the bit of capital i'm reading now is actually about grain

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

/

platzapS fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 4, 2017

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Autism Sneaks posted:

man why the gently caress did I just read four pages about Soviet grain distribution??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
:krust:

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Wheeee posted:

"On 25 July 1932, Stalin, in a letter to Kaganovich, mistakenly claimed that in the USSR as a whole 'the prospects of the harvest...are without any doubt good'"

hmm

yes, he did say that, in correspondence which also recommended massive reductions in the plan. you could try reading the thing instead of finding a bit you think supports your perspective, going "aha!" and posting, like a clown does, at the circus

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Barbe Rouge posted:

bro, seriously? check out the top of each page.

it's actually not at the top. that's the chapter title

S.G. Wheatcroft, ed. Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Palgrave: Macmillan, 2002 p: 69-91

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

we won't be alive 80 years from now when people smugly quote our leaders today saying tax cuts will raise revenues

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
https://twitter.com/revisionistakes/status/930944257535434752

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

:thunk:

zen death robot
May 27, 2001

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

we won't be alive 80 years from now when people smugly quote our leaders today saying tax cuts will raise revenues

thank god

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Oh shucks great grandparent
What was it like to have trump as the president
Why didnt you do the revolution earlier like mom and dad did
How does it feel to be kept alive to see all your failures by our future socialist healthcare, plus we cured alzheimers and dementia so you have full faculties to contemplate your misery

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

R. Guyovich posted:

it's actually not at the top. that's the chapter title

S.G. Wheatcroft, ed. Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History, Palgrave: Macmillan, 2002 p: 69-91

tvym

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Our generation doesn't deserve the immortality vaccine after doing Gamergate.

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