A couple of things here: (1) Quora is not a great source, which you seem to understand (2) I'm going to refrain from making statements about topics I'm ill-informed on, and likely full of brain worms about (3) I will start the deworming process with this book: Stalin: History and Critique of A Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo. (4) I will engage in the time-honored leftist tradition of throwing 600-page books at people.
Thanks for the book recc. I'll check it out. The actual message I wanted to say was simply that economically left but culturally right people are shitstains, nothing more.
I hear you. Stalin is definitely one of those mythical figures in history, where the myth is larger than the history. The goal is to separate the myth from the history. As the CIA puts it in their document "Comments On The Change In Soviet Leadership"
Even in Stalin's time there was collective leaderhsip. The western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captin of a team [...]
My hope in reading that book is to clear up my own "misunderstandings on that subject".
A couple of things here: (1) Quora is not a great source, which you seem to understand (2) I'm going to refrain from making statements about topics I'm ill-informed on, and likely full of brain worms about (3) I will start the deworming process with this book: Stalin: History and Critique of A Black Legend by Domenico Losurdo. (4) I will engage in the time-honored leftist tradition of throwing 600-page books at people.
Thanks for the book recc. I'll check it out. The actual message I wanted to say was simply that economically left but culturally right people are shitstains, nothing more.
I hear you. Stalin is definitely one of those mythical figures in history, where the myth is larger than the history. The goal is to separate the myth from the history. As the CIA puts it in their document "Comments On The Change In Soviet Leadership"
My hope in reading that book is to clear up my own "misunderstandings on that subject".