Something sincerely nice, not icepick joke #328746279.

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I don't agree with most of what you've written about Makhno. And it's a shame that you stand by it even knowing that Makhnovists were murderers & anti-leftist pogromists

    The peasantry were included in the poor & working classes supporting the Reds, literally the sickle represents the peasantry, and the bourgeois fancy lad Menshevik Trotsky isn't reflective of who actually identified with the Reds.

    Actually the Red Army didn't engage more in pogroms than did the Black Army, and the Red Army conscripted specifically among Jewish communities far more than any of these other groups did

    " A delegation from Novozlatopol once went to Machno [sic] to discuss his raids against the Jews. Machno’s reply was “What can I do ? They’re just a bunch of ignorant peasants”, referring to his own men.”

    Is that your idea of Makhno "condemning" the anti-Jewish murders among his ranks?

    Black Army isn't to be lionized. Makhno is beatified in a way comporting with Western anti-communism, not in a historically or functionally accurate manner

    If Makhno had maintained his obligations and continued the fight against imperialism where and when he was needed, I think that the situation would've been far different