If, Buddha-willing, we get another shot at this shit and get the chance to try and enact a dictatorship of the proletariat, what do comrades here think we should actually do regarding prison systems, e.g. for political enemies? What do we think of reeducation camps? How should they be organised?
I had a post about this but the comments for the rest of it got archived
Can you just link to the original documents?
I typed those up by hand from the book since I couldn't find it online. I'll either see if I uploaded pictures of them already or do exactly that if I didn't and send you a link to them tomorrow when I wake up. Make sure to reply to this comment so I'll have an extra reminder to do it.
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This should work, I retook pictures of the chapter. Page numbers are at the bottom, so if the links disorganized them you can figure out the order at your perusal.
https://ibb.co/0CmDpPK https://ibb.co/NSb5CZs https://ibb.co/phywzt9 https://ibb.co/CKc4snS https://ibb.co/D7V3J5Y https://ibb.co/fpTjDSv https://ibb.co/ZV710W3 https://ibb.co/TtP6msb https://ibb.co/ZSdsGX5
:sankara-salute: you should consider making a new post for this!
Good that you posted this as the USSR and more generally the penal systems of past socialist projects are definitely something we should be studying comparatively and critically to get a sense of what works and what doens't. Obviously that can only help us, not give us a panacea because our conditions are very different. That being said I don't really understand comrades who seem intent of justifying every aspect of the soviet penal system, many of which were pretty unjustifiable in all honesty (like the use pf psychiatry to pathologize alot of criminals) but tell you alot about the conditions of the USSR's emergence, the violence behind its survival and the effect this had on the state, party and bureacracy, as well as people more broadly.