So, I made the mistake of picking a performing arts degree, so I spend most of my days pondering how pointless of a degree it is. I did manage to pick a module about performance protest, and while some of it gets a bit bullshitty, there's been other parts like looking at native American performance/protest at the Dakota pipeline and stuff, which have been interesting and useful.
Yesterday there was some group work. It was a bit of a brainstorming exercise but as a group we settled on the idea of spamming the illegal immigrant report line/letterbox with shit so that new reports wont go through. Ok, it's nothing amazing, but it served the purpose of the exercise we were given.
Then this girl speaks up. Previously her contribution to class has been telling everyone about how she culturally enriched herself by going on holiday in places where poor people exist.
On our idea, she says that it might be illegal to do, so we should create a fake website and have people fill that in as a symbolic message.
A FAKE WEBSITE FILLED IN AS A SYMBOLIC MESSAGE
At that moment I realised why the arts seem so useless at changing things. It's jam packed with trust fund kiddies.
that is complete insanity. what could possibly drive someone to have that thought at my young age? To remove all potency from the tiniest little act. Seriously ghoulish.
"I'm a Trotskyist myself, Lenin was too violent"
Like she's a nice old lady and seems to actually have decent politics for a boomer but holy shit.
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I guess she doesn't know who lead the Red Army during the civil war
That was what blew me away I didn't even know how to respond to that lol. Like not only that, but what do you think he meant by permanent revolution lmao?
Trotsky also was the one who came up with the KGB
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As a lib I once told my Russian professor that Stalin was bad, Lenin was good. She looked at me and said: “Compared to Lenin, Stalin was kitten!”
Another random anecdote: she told me once that her father only hung out with two people. One was a cat. The other was the dude who played Alexander Nevsky.
She was and still is super into Soviet film, poetry, and cinema. I used to think that she was kind of a lib but maybe I was wrong?
I wish I knew the source for this, but isn't there an account of Lenin describing Stalin as "too meek to fully wield power to safeguard the revolution"? it blew my mind when I first read it, but I've had a hard time tracking it down ever since.
I heard somewhere that Lenin once called Stalin a lib but I’m not sure where it was....
I think we're thinking of the same quote, I just remember it being Lenin who called Stalin too weak and timid to be effective. It flew against a lot of the things I'd heard about the man prior to this.
Unlearning liberal myths about Stalin took me at least a few years.
I don't know the context, but I know the two initially got along but had a falling out.