I don’t think that’s a good reason to like Stalin.
You could say something similar about Churchill vis à vis Nazis. Doesn’t change the fact he was a cunt.
Plus Stalin literally cooperated with Hitler to invade Poland, commiting atrocities in the process. So while I appreciate that the USSR is one of the, if not the, major reasons the Nazis fell, I don’t see it as out of good faith.
Trotsky. The guy who argued the Soviet Union was too authoritarian and bureaucratic. And was serving an unaccountable elite instead of the workers. Arguably much closer to the spirit of Marx than Stalin. Is the one everyone hates?
This meme is kinda tankie brained.
Yes exactly. Plus he was literally a socialist. I think I’d enjoy chatting with him the most.
Yeah this sounds more like Zižek
The argentine government could focus their money on those struggling in poverty isntead of being mafia for capital.
Yo when’s registration opening. I’d love to join the instance :)
It was also pretty symbolically used to chop the head off of dear old Louis XVI and his wife (the royals), and end the Royal order in France. (Not that what came after was that much better, but the symbolism stands more if u look at it that way).
Interesting. I think this it’s going down piece might be a good companion to the Jacobin perspective.
Have you considered the energy loss. Depending on your battery you might end up with like 75% of the energy you paid for.
Because both storing energy in a battery and taking that energy out is not 100% efficient.
Incroyable 🫡.
Your graphic design efforts are appreciated.
The EU is a neoliberal technocracy with social democratic aesthetics.
It literally enforces capitalism, austerity (and thereby cuts of welfare).
Don’t forget Mao also purged “Ultra-Leftists” who were against the bureaucratic elite and wanted more decentralised communism.
Can someone volunteer to give that website a mobile compatible viewing mode. It would make it far more accessible.
(I’d theoretically love to join your reading but the extent of my chronic illness means it’s very unlikely I’d be able to keep up fully. I’d love to jump in and out if that’s possible tho :))
I never mentioned the Non agression pact. Simply that Stalin and Hitler cooperated in an invasion of Poland. I don’t think that’s deniable.
Also, I’m not sure I’m going to take Cowbee’s take seriously when they frame Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as self defence. And who calls modern CCP controlled China “Democratic”.