white people be like "why yes i am an expert about this country that i've never been to, nor speak the language of, why do you ask?" https://twitter.com/SocksxMC/status/1347645834884767744

    • ant9 [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Oh no it was just a chance to drop a reference to a very good book.

      He talks to people whose lives were horribly changed by dictatorships/violence/genocide. The Indonesian communist part was one of the biggest in the world, entirely mainstream and committed to the Marxist path of working with capitalists to grow productive forces while also organizing tons of community programs and such. He tells the story of what happened with them, Chile, and a few other places. Towards the end he asks the people he's interviewing about their view on armed vs unarmed movements. Indonesia and Chile both had unarmed movements .

      Actually it even mentions how Castro tried to warn Allende, tried to get him to arm the people.

      He also told him the US was crazy.

      I get the Wisner jokes on Chapo now. lol