https://defed.xyz No real surprises, but the list pales compared to Lemmygrad's still, they have 3x as many defeds.

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Glad to have you :rat-salute-2:

    If you are looking for a good leftist take on Stalin that includes a whole chapter criticizing the USSR (but not from a U.S. propaganda angle), might I recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti? party-parenti Tons of free PDFs if you google it. Very readable, pretty short, and you can get a lot of the material from his lectures on YouTube if you're pressed for time.

    • Drug_Shareni [comrade/them, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, and thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.

      My main issue with him is due to the Tito-Stalin split. Non-aligned > USSR

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Mmm I can see it. Yeah, that's the type of criticism from the left stuff that makes sense.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think on the other hand you really have to consider the fact that if there was no soviet union then the capitalist powers would have torn Yugoslavia apart. It took a major world power being communist to occupy all the west's attention

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Parenti's analysis of Stalin in Blackshirts and Reds is the weakest part of an otherwise excellent book. I can't really fault him as at the time of writing, the Soviet archives had not yet been analyzed in their entirety. For a better analysis that focuses specifically on Stalin, read Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend.