I have an “left unity” an-com comrade, and I’m looking for resources for moving them more “auth-ward.” Should I just send on authority and state and revolution? Any suggestions?

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
    18·
    2 years ago

    I can’t promise that these will persuade them too, but I can speak from personal experience when I say that reading Inventing Reality and Human Rights in the Soviet Union strongly reduced my negativity regarding the people’s republics, even if I was still unsure that state socialism was the best way to go. My view on state socialism (‘state capitalism’, I preferred to call it) evolved from it being an obstacle to it being an acceptable alternative (if not inevitability).

    • Lemmy_Mouse
      9·
      2 years ago

      Based on your username you seem like the comrade to ask about this

    • QueerCommieOP
      6·
      2 years ago

      What about blackshirts and the reds? I feel like it would have a similar affect.

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik
        7·
        2 years ago

        It would help, yes. I was unconvinced with his argument against anarchism, but the rest of the book is still very useful. It’s also a compelling case that the destruction of the U.S.S.R. caused far more harm than good.