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Kurdt
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it has to be marxist and not consistently erase class. tia
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Mike Nelson here.
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"Whoever wants to know a thing has no way of doing so except by coming into contact with it, that is, by living (practicing) in its environment. ... If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." - Mao Zedong
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Kurdt
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i am now become Stalin, savior of Worlds
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i should buy some pears
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http://english.pobediteli.ru/

this was pretty informative for me
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play pseudo historical video games like hearts of iron
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Mandel's short book on the topic both answers to your description and is Pretty Good, though I don't entirely agree with his analysis.
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Critically reading solid Bourgeois History like Tooze's Wages of Destruction with an eye for class analysis and the dynamics of the larger colonial context is probably more useful though.

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This is really excellent context: http://thecapitalistholocaust.wordpress.com
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'Stalin's Wars' by Geoffrey Roberts is pretty good. I'm currently reading this - https://archive.org/stream/WhoHelpedHitler/Who%20Helped%20Hitler#page/n1/mode/2up which is more about the lead up to WWII
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the bourgeois falsification of history



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political car tune
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i want to believe
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that just proves stalin was ahead of his time wrt photoshop and composite images for media relations
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constructivist photo-collagists invented the use of photoshop for propoganda purposes. i can't find the one where lenin is popping out of stalin's mouth, but this one is ok

https://c20thdesign.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/gustavklutsis-workers-everyone-must-vote-in-the-election-of-soviets-1930.jpg
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UNUSUALY COOL
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has anybody recommended People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, which has like half a page total on World War II
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Mike Nelson here.
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RedMaistre posted:

Mandel's short book on the topic both answers to your description and is Pretty Good, though I don't entirely agree with his analysis.

trotskyist positions on ww2 always baffle me, although tbh i've never read any of their books about it. i think the cliffites even go as far as to say that because the soviets were "state-capitalist" that defence of the soviet union wasn't necessary which is weird. in canada all the trots complain that supporting the war effort killed the socialist movement which i dunno... i'm more likely to blame actual hitler.

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UNUSUALY COOL
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Panopticon posted:



not seeing a problem here

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mt.real
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getfiscal posted:

"Whoever wants to know a thing has no way of doing so except by coming into contact with it, that is, by living (practicing) in its environment. ... If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." - Mao Zedong


i'm glad to finally have a clear direct quote to explain why i don't know anything about anything

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enemy at the gates with jude law
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UNUSUALY COOL
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young khrushchev, quiet fucking, this one has it all
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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cars posted:

Panopticon posted:

http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/soviet-censorship-naval-commissar-vanishes.jpg

not seeing a problem here



somebody went back in time and stopped Nikolai Yezhov's dad from banging his mom at prom. its a pretty big problem!

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Did Nikolai Yezhov even exist? No evidence
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getfiscal posted:

RedMaistre posted:

Mandel's short book on the topic both answers to your description and is Pretty Good, though I don't entirely agree with his analysis.

trotskyist positions on ww2 always baffle me, although tbh i've never read any of their books about it. i think the cliffites even go as far as to say that because the soviets were "state-capitalist" that defence of the soviet union wasn't necessary which is weird. in canada all the trots complain that supporting the war effort killed the socialist movement which i dunno... i'm more likely to blame actual hitler.



Earnest Mandel was of the persuasion that views the USSR and other actually existing socialisms as "deformed workers' states", so his position towards the USSR was much more positive than that--to the point that some accused him of being an apologist for Stalinism.

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RedMaistre posted:

some accused him of being an apologist for Stalinism.


to be fair it really doesnt take much to get this response

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c_man posted:

RedMaistre posted:

some accused him of being an apologist for Stalinism.

to be fair it really doesnt take much to get this response



you say "to be fair" as if it was a bad thing.

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i meant more that it says less about how he might actually feel towards the historical record of stalin and more about him possibly frightening a trot or liberal
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you'll have to wait for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, op, scheduled for release on December 18th, 2015. merry christmas.
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itsa me, megg-io
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just looking at pictures of ww2 trucks
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Panopticon posted:

the bourgeois falsification of history

HAHA YEA... MAKES U THINK