it's because they haven't read it

:matt-jokerfied:

no seriously, on the recent chapo episode with brace they went on this 10 minute rant about the book and then every admitted they had never read it

good stuff

    • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The Great Famine was just a single famine, and the other two famines were in the decades before and after.

      I hate Trotsky and think he's a hack, but it's worth considering if his method would have prevented the creation of the pseudo-petite-bourgeois kulaks who made the famine so much worse.

        • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          The kulaks were a historical class of peasants/small time lords, but their position was slightly transformed prior to the famine by earlier collectivization efforts that made the heads of local collectives essentially national bourgeois. At least, that was what I remember being told of it.

          They also killed an insane amount of livestock along in with destroying grain and farming tools.