Source book:
Stalinist values by David hoffmann.
Other parts of the chapter basically says the time and energy wasted on individualist bourgeois bustin decadence is time better spent learning to work for the better of the collective.
TL:DR - Nutting is counter-revolutionary. :volcel-vanguard: .
:volcel-kamala::solidarity::stalin-gun-2:
Does this book contain actual facts or is it just propaganda?
If this is true it’s kind of a garbage take tbh.
It tracks for me, the 30s saw more than a little bit of reactionary social politics. This is the period when abortion and homosexuality would get re-criminalized.
Why did reactionary social politics creep into the USSR at that time? It seems like it started off good during Lenin’s time.
It’s a topic I should do more reading on, but the feeling I get is that it was a backlash to the highly progressive currents of the 20s. It affected nearly everything - the Soviet Union had some of the first schools for the blind and deaf, then some of them got shut down. There were women’s work programs, then they got replaced with “traditional family” propaganda. Stalin is undoubtedly the source for some of it, but he was also the head of a huge and popular movement so he can’t be solely blamed.
You mentioned schools for the deaf and I stumbled on this thread here on the topic
I looked at my source again and it seems I misremembered - it wasn’t that the progress for the disabled was all reversed, it was that one of the pioneers in the field of special education (I. A. Sokolyansky) was arrested in the Great Purge and his school was shut down, but when he was released in 1940 he was able to go to Moscow and get a new job doing the same thing at a different university so clearly it wasn’t a universal thing.
Damn that sucks, those programs sounded based as fuck. Why are people always everywhere so resistant to such stuff? Like my dudes you literally toppled a centuries old imperial order basically overnight but you can’t bear deaf people and women getting an education?
