RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • Man this dude needs to bake in the sun or something. At the 10 minute mark, if I understand him correctly, he goes on what I can only described as a pro-fascist rant disguised as some critique of modern “leftists”. That somehow the socially conservative history found in historical socialist movements is a component of socialism and not a product of the time and place under which they manifested. Pure Nazbol takes.


  • And what was the outcome of this “mass heroism seldom paralleled in history”?

    Parenti tells you in the previous paragraphs:

    The latter course, I believe, would have produced a more comfortable, more humane and serviceable society. Siege socialism would have given way to worker-consumer socialism. The only problem is that the country would have risked being incapable of withstanding the Nazi onslaught.

    So yes, the Soviets had two roads in front of them. Yes, one of them might have “produced a more comfortable, more humane and serviceable society.” And yes, that would have been a better choice. Yet, history shows us what happens next. How long would that comfortable existence last against the Nazi blitzkrieg?

    That is the point Parenti is making here. Often Stalin is criticized for the USSRs industrialization policy with out ever considering the consequences of taking the other path. We cannot relitigate history, we can only learn from it.

    It’s part of his greater point about siege socialism. That socialism under siege warps it’s priorities in defense of the revolution. The people during Stalin’s time sacrificed much in defense of the revolution. We can not simply judge socialism based on the form it takes while under siege.










  • The last time I sat to piss I shot through the roof like a Fattah 2 hypersonic missile. After I woke up from the concussion I was falling from the stratosphere at 10,000 meters per second. I had to use my stream to avoid being struck by incoming THAAD missiles my body triggered when I attained near escape velocity. No thanks comrade. I piss standing up with a two ton towing capacity winch wraped around my waist bolted to the load barring center joist of my moms house just to keep me grounded.