panopticon

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same energy as making it seem like Trotsky invented armored trains and the word racism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He loves to say perrrmanent revolution and (imo) downplays the roles of Lenin and especially Stalin before and during the October revolution, really seems intent on making Trotsky the protagonist, doesn't really deal with Lenin's writings or theories, and makes it seem like Marx formulated the original labor theory of value, but other than that it gives a decent account of the sequence of events and the interconnected movements that gave rise to the revolution. I also felt like he did a good job of explaining the motivations and necessity of the Bolshevik takeover, mainly the provisional government continuing to drag the country through WWI. I might give it another listen, see if I feel the same way about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love how China just looks like The Future now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Give me a scruffy couchguy communist that wants to hang out and hug

A wild New Type of Guy appears

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe there's a better metaphor but with lend-lease it's like, okay so if you loan a forklift to the workers who have to do the heavy lifting, you'll then try to take all the credit when they're done with the heavy lifting?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world find out that Fascists lie all the time (even after they take power) challenge, difficulty: impossible, apparently

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

He even worked under Obama, if memory serves. There's other footage of this idiot harassing two Russian envoys, a man and a woman, in which he follows them around asking the man if this is his "whorish" companion and spouting other nastiness.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Big reason why I get kind of unhinged over rhetorically defending China

 

Hey there, so I've got an Audible account (:cringe: ) that I've been meaning to cancel. I'm procrastinating because I've got 1 credit left to spend on a book, and these assholes don't let you keep your credits when you cancel your subscription, but I don't know what to spend it on.

I'm going on a fairly long drive through drought-affected, wildfire-burned areas and I don't want to be ruminating on the end of the world the whole time. Trying to climb out of the depressive rut that I've been in.

I know the situation is objectively bad, but to me, resolving the cycle of grief after acceptance means finding meaning, and I find meaning in looking for constructive things to orient my life towards. So what I'm looking for is along the lines of eco-socialism (a la Paul Cockshott), adaptation, how we can feasibly avert 2 or 3 degrees +, that sort of thing.

I would also be open to a book that discusses the potential for actual socialist revolution in the US/first world today, and a realistic idea of how that might happen.

Thank you!

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