It’s funny cause Khrushchev was obviously kind of a dumb guy, which means Jack Kennedy was just one of the biggest fools in the world because Khrushchev famously wiped the floor with him.

r/Vaush is white devil sophistry

Always maintained that Trotsky was a good guy and smart theorist (maybe I think would’ve been better then Stalin), but ultimately the differences between Trotskyism and you know your average ML group at this point come down to mostly aesthetic. And the groups tend to be British and dogmatic.

It would be horrific, probably it would be genocidal.

The US would lose this war.

I just finished Philip Short’s, interviewed on RWN, Putin biography. Aside from some of your normal anticommunist stuff, and a couple other things (he sort of insinuates Putins mom may have eaten his brother) it’s pretty good.

It’s a pretty measured look at Putin as an individual, and it’s one of the more mainstream adjacent works that more or less puts the blame for this current conflagration pretty squarely on the west. I’d say it’s probably worth a read, though it’s long.

This is 🧢

Brandon Sanderson is such an ass writer.

Could be Absalom, Absalom. But that’s a stretch maybe.

Yeah exactly you wouldn’t get 20 years for a dui

Yeah but what did he really do, like no one was hurt right?

20 years really, it seems like a victimless crime

The Majority Report is ok, but some of its audience are some of the most sophomoric people on the planet.

Boric is an idiot

Poor Jeff Stein

https://youtu.be/ImqSfrrBBvw

He should just declare martial law and arrest the Congress.

That’s grim for the Ukrainians if they’re comparing them to the Afghanis . That would mean we could be only months at the most from total collapse of the Ukrainian state.

The idea that state institutions serve the ruling class was one of Marx’s most important ideas.

Who is top left?

Yeah but Jacobin publishes articles from all over the place. They also have a ton of articles that are pro the October Revolution; Kautskyists wouldn’t do that. https://jacobin.com/2017/11/the-russian-revolution-at-100