Timothy Snyder’s<em> Bloodlands</em>: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part One
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The role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate his book more closely.

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For context Libs on Bsky are passing aroudn this fascists shithead’s bullshit book “On Tyranny” as a manual for “resisting authoritarianism” THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE YOU LIBERAL SHITWIPES!

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    You were so much nicer to me before, but in my process of trying to look up that butterchurn thing, all I found was an argument that you had with Barx 12 days ago, where you had a tone much more like you have here. I’m not sure what I did to deserve it. Also I still want a source on the butterchurn thing.

    In 2024 it’s on its face ridiculous to attempt to segregate farm labor from industrial labor

    I would consider farm labor in a modern state like the US to be proletarian. This should be obvious. It’s a backward country in many ways, but the relations of production are not medieval.

    rather than advocate for labor solidarity,

    Even if they [modern American rural workers] were peasants, or we were talking about an industrializing nation in the modern day that actually does have something like a medieval peasantry alongside a proletariat, I would advocate for solidarity among the working classes against the owning classes. Nothing I said contradicted that. You underestimate how specific a criticism I was making, just because I support one of Lenin’s premises in a defective argument does not mean I support every premise, every inference, and every conclusion. You’re shadowboxing.

    that’s exactly how I know you’re writing apologia.

    It turns out you don’t.

    • _pi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Butterchurn is Conquest’s Harvest of Sorrow. It’s because local ispolkoms could add criteria to the list and poor rural areas added butterchurns. It’s not like it doesn’t make sense or is out of the ordinary. Look at the difference between family 1 and family 2 in the image. Family one owns a couple of hand tools, family 2 owns a horse and a plow and a couple pieces of non mechanized farm machinery. Family 2 is not part of the alliance according to Lenin cuz they’re middle peasants. It all literally adds up, that’s how butterchurns get on these lists.

      Like yeah that happened, that didn’t preclude the modernization of the country under the USSR, modernization happened in spite of Stalinist mismanagement.

      You want more fun stories here’s a secondary Russian source detailing how marrying the sons of someone who was considered a kulak and even if that kulak was dispossessed, made the women who married the sons, and their parents kulaks.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20071007122505/http://hist.web.tstu.ru/12_2004_1.html

      you underestimate how specific a criticism I was making, just because I support one of Lenin’s premises in a defective argument does not mean I support every premise, every inference, and every conclusion

      The criticism makes no sense because Marxist-Leninist conception it’s based on makes no sense. Lenin and Stalin repressed the peasants reflexively before an owner-worker form could bootstrap among the class. The issue that Mao points out is that there was a feudal relationship between the peasants of the USSR and the USSR itself, minimum quotas and obligatory sales are literally painting a landlord peasant relationship red.

      The reason I’m upset is that this is such a lazy, annoying and tiring line of argument when people are like ‘what do you mean the Stalinist repressions were repressive and ridiculous?’ or ‘what do you mean Bolsheviks completely fucked up with the peasants? I’m posting “Mao Zedong Thought” here’. It’s reflexively defensive because just because I’m not writing praise at every immediate moment I must be a SECRET LIB.

      And in reality guess what all states fuck their people up, in fact my actual position on this is that industrial production is incredibly morally difficult and society in general has only very recently even been able to create the most basic tools to understand how to more equitably do it, and I’m still not sure if it’s actually possible to have a fully moral industrial production.

      I literally recommended The New Class /The Industrial Society/ The Affluent Society in another part of this post, (which are books written on different sides of the iron curtain by different people that point out the same organic developments among industrialized economies one capitalist, one socialist) and you’re here expecting a point by point defense of every single accusation levied against Stalin of all people. Literally the communist that was hated by almost every other communist in reality.