i had to skip the two russia and ukraine news items in the latest episode. hearing a group of alleged leftists - and an engineer to boot - uncritically accept the "russia destroyed the kherson dam" line is ridiculous
you got liam being a reactionary who pretends to be an anarchist, and alice who's usually based can't help but become full nafo whenever russia is mentioned. it's exhausting
Rocz at least mentioned that it could have simply collapsed from neglect, only to be shut down by Alice railroading.
I like them all and we all have shit takes (and I don't think an anarchist having a strong critique of the USSR is a deal breaker as long as left unity is kept.) Liam is just the worst when he goes off the rails though.
I think if you're uncritically repeating cold war myths, it fails to be either "left unity" or what you'd hopefully wish to see of an "anarchist critique of the USSR". Being an anarchist doesn't mean it's legitimate for you to say soldiers were sent to the front line without guns or ammo, or that the back line was just going open season on any soldier who so much as stepped three feet back to get behind cover.
It also needs to be properly contextualised, because you can for instance draw a direct line from the famine in the early 1930s amidst massive industrialisation to the USSR winning WW2
i had to skip the two russia and ukraine news items in the latest episode. hearing a group of alleged leftists - and an engineer to boot - uncritically accept the "russia destroyed the kherson dam" line is ridiculous
you got liam being a reactionary who pretends to be an anarchist, and alice who's usually based can't help but become full nafo whenever russia is mentioned. it's exhausting
Rocz at least mentioned that it could have simply collapsed from neglect, only to be shut down by Alice railroading.
I like them all and we all have shit takes (and I don't think an anarchist having a strong critique of the USSR is a deal breaker as long as left unity is kept.) Liam is just the worst when he goes off the rails though.
I think if you're uncritically repeating cold war myths, it fails to be either "left unity" or what you'd hopefully wish to see of an "anarchist critique of the USSR". Being an anarchist doesn't mean it's legitimate for you to say soldiers were sent to the front line without guns or ammo, or that the back line was just going open season on any soldier who so much as stepped three feet back to get behind cover.
It also needs to be properly contextualised, because you can for instance draw a direct line from the famine in the early 1930s amidst massive industrialisation to the USSR winning WW2