I also checked out the Romanian dictator he mentioned. This is... uh... freaking horrible.
What the fuck kind of "Communist Party" governed Romania???
I also checked out the Romanian dictator he mentioned. This is... uh... freaking horrible.
What the fuck kind of "Communist Party" governed Romania???
gonna be honest alot of the soviet/eastern bloc governments seem kind of shitty.
not to downplay the good socialism did.
Unsurprisingly, Parenti has lots of good leftist criticisms of the USSR in Blackshirts and Reds.
I think it does help to have some of these criticisms ready when the topic comes up with non-leftists, because you don't want to come off as (or be) a cheerleader for whatever AES states do. It's critical support, after all.
i mean, yeah. we'd be betraying our ideology if we didn't make fair criticisms of its implementation. we are scientific socialists, not cheerleaders.