Starting to get that feeling in the first 26 pages. It’s great and have wanted to read it for a while now. But wondering what the take is here on it overall.
The line he literally wrote about the population size of Russia being unsuitable for socialism is like verbatim RW criticism used today and typically repeated when saying that it while it may work in small European counties it won’t here.
Need also to brush up on the Russian Revolution, having only read some of John Reed’s account.
It is. I refuse to believe that this is serious (and the subsequent OP posts praising Christopher Hitchen). This is probably the first time Gulag Archipelago has been read in 10 years. OP was able to recognize how garbage the arguments in the book are.
I know a few anarchists who’ve read it. I kinda assumed it was still popular.
The book is 1 thousand pages, i highly doubt anyone in their free time reads it in the age of the internet. The only people now who own a copy are Peterson fans who were pressured into buying it so they dont have to say they get all their information from him. Also bizarre for anarchists to be reading it, i guess never underestimate their anti-communism and reactionary tendencies (like Solzhenitsyn, Bakunin was also deeply anti-semitic)