Enver Hoxha, born on this day in 1908, was the communist leader of Albania from 1946 to 1985, leaving behind a complex legacy of feminism and greatly improved access to healthcare and education, coupled with a paranoid personality cult and brutal state repression. Hoxha is also known for having sharp ideological and political disagreements with the Soviet Union and communist Yugoslavia, siding most strongly with and receiving aid from Maoist China.
Before coming into power, Hoxha was a French school teacher and librarian, becoming a communist partisan after fascist Italy invaded Albania in 1939. In March 1943, the first National Conference of the Communist Party elected Hoxha formally as First Secretary.
It was in this position as First Secretary that Hoxha became head of state after the Albanian monarchy was abolished in 1946.
In the years after Stalin's death, Hoxha grew increasingly distressed by the policies of the Soviet leadership and of Khrushchev in particular. China was also disillusioned with Soviet behavior at this time, and Hoxha found common ground with Mao Zedong's criticisms of Moscow. By 1961 Hoxha's attacks on the "revisionist" Soviet leadership had so infuriated Khrushchev that he elected first to terminate Moscow's economic aid to Albania and ultimately to sever diplomatic relations entirely.
Under Hoxha's leadership, the Albanian literacy rate improved from 5-10% in rural areas to more 90%. Hoxha was also a proponent of women's rights, stating "the entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights". Accordingly, more than 175 times as many women attended secondary schools in 1978 than had done so in 1938.
Hoxha died in 1985, leading Ramiz Alia to succeed him as head of state. Although Albania was one of the poorest European nations at the time of his death, the country was also economically self-sufficient, carrying minimal foreign debt and boasting a trade surplus of $10 million.
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His father sketched a formation of 9 planes.
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Unfortunately I still live under capitalist oppression and must therefore still eat to survive.
I would rather be watching the movie than be at this party
Literally every fucking step of this pandemic the media / rulers have been responsibilizing the individual + blaming us for Covid.
been eating bat soup straight from the garbage bin of ideology because of this, personally
Hey y'all, just did a karaoke duet with a guy I know who I had just realized is kinda attractive :crush:
Also based on your stream voice you could probably rock this tune
I actually probably could've sung that pretty good :isaac-pog:
Western propaganda: we are the freest and most welcomest and democratest and human rightest countries in the world!
the rest: sounds great! we're coming!
the West: :surprised-pika:I mean, if the communists free your slaves and you’re mad at them for it you could technically call that ideology
Crazy how we could substantially mitigate the upcoming water crisis if we decided to abolish golf as a sport and just replace lawns with artificial turf or some shit
But muh personal freedom is more important than ensuring that everyone can have water :frothingfash:
Urban golf courses are perfect for turning into spacious park-filled public housing
Golf is the worst sport and all golf courses should be forcibly turned into community gardens, public parks, or mini golf courses.
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of perfectly good water wasted each yearGolf courses use a great deal of water for irrigation and other purposes. A typical 150-acre golf course uses approximately 200 million gallons of water a year, enough to supply 1,800 residences with 300 GPD of water.
I was comically off. How does this not radicalize you
Working with mostly normal people for the first time in a while has been a trip. I just kinda drop theory as normal conversation when it comes to work and stuff, alienation and labor theory of value stuff. Easy to relate to normal cynical job guy stuff. But I said something about Steve Jobs standing on the shoulders of giants and the typical any invention requires the input of every person that existed before it thing and ingot a genuine moment of silence after. Then I was asked if I came up with that myself cause it was smart as hell which was ironic but honestly getting it out to people that aren't either already sorta there or lumpenproles is pretty fun and rewarding. You get a lot of "I never thought about it like that but you're totally right". It's been kinda fun, going to work isn't so bad if you go on with the goal of being the best comrade you can be while getting paid
One thing I like about the vaccine mandates is that for the first time in my life, and I really mean the first time, American reactionaries and exceptionalist contrarians are not treated as the main character of life.
I feel like I can tell how stressed out this site’s userbase is based on how violent the watermarked memes become
Joe Manchin is not a real name wtf
That's a fucking cartoon characters name
I deadass thought he was the main villain from the handmaid's tale, and when people talked about him being in the senate or possibly running for president they were being metaphorical.
