Thanks so much comrade. That podcast episode I mentioned and some of the Proles of the round table go into the purges too. My “friend” has some real dogshit takes a lot of the time so I’m sure it’s just some bullshit. I also need to read up on the Ukraine pogroms. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was somehow tied to those or other issues with the Ukrainian nationalists and he’s gonna end up defending fucking fascists.
My knowledge of the early stuff is just lacking and finding time to sit down and read about it has proven difficult. I hate that I’ve lived souch of my life ignorant and now I am trying to speed run learning what others have spend decades learning. At least with the podcasts stuff I can listen to it while I run and lift which is like, the one little thing I can do to keep myself in shape after work.
Absolutely. If you haven’t listened, some of the members of Proles of the Roundtable went on to create Invent the Future which is just as great a podcast.
Something that amazed me to learn (from Martens’ book) about the early USSR and early into Stalin’s leadership is that the Whites were very active throughout the countryside until like 1928, committing pogroms and burning down villages – in that sense the Russian Civil War went on for much longer than wikipedia or whatever would claim it did, and it’s also a prime example imo of important historical context being completely forgotten (intentionally or otherwise) in favor of anti-communist talking points. Dekulakization and the liquidation of certain aspects of the peasant class make a whole lot more sense with this context, but that doesn’t serve the prevailing narrative.
Thanks so much comrade. That podcast episode I mentioned and some of the Proles of the round table go into the purges too. My “friend” has some real dogshit takes a lot of the time so I’m sure it’s just some bullshit. I also need to read up on the Ukraine pogroms. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was somehow tied to those or other issues with the Ukrainian nationalists and he’s gonna end up defending fucking fascists.
My knowledge of the early stuff is just lacking and finding time to sit down and read about it has proven difficult. I hate that I’ve lived souch of my life ignorant and now I am trying to speed run learning what others have spend decades learning. At least with the podcasts stuff I can listen to it while I run and lift which is like, the one little thing I can do to keep myself in shape after work.
Absolutely. If you haven’t listened, some of the members of Proles of the Roundtable went on to create Invent the Future which is just as great a podcast.
Something that amazed me to learn (from Martens’ book) about the early USSR and early into Stalin’s leadership is that the Whites were very active throughout the countryside until like 1928, committing pogroms and burning down villages – in that sense the Russian Civil War went on for much longer than wikipedia or whatever would claim it did, and it’s also a prime example imo of important historical context being completely forgotten (intentionally or otherwise) in favor of anti-communist talking points. Dekulakization and the liquidation of certain aspects of the peasant class make a whole lot more sense with this context, but that doesn’t serve the prevailing narrative.