Fascism - about 15 years and some 50 million lives. Your point is?
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Both are terrible ideologies. Different flavors of authoritarianism. What is YOUR point?
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I mean it's not like flipping a coin where the only possible outcome is Stalinist or oligarchy. You'd think a well renowned Harvard Prof would understand nuance and the root of communism's resurgent popularity before tweeting schlock like this.
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I'd love to hear some nuance when talking about Stalinism. Got a blog?
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I do actually! But only one entry for now, I spend most of my time and energy trying to survive the misery of capitalism. There are other more talented writers on it though.https://writerswithoutmoney.com/2017/02/20/framing-the-violence-narrative/ …
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thanks for the response and blog entry but it didn't have anything to do with Stalinism.
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Yes because I'm not a Stalinist. I'm not a Commie either but as an avowed anti-capitalist (American version anyway) I consider them allies. That's what I meant by "nuance", having a position on one thing does not automatically mean favoring another as well.
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that's all fine but the original post was about Stalinism not "everything but capitalism".
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When a capitalist dictator kills people, we blame the dictator
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Capitalism is simply an economic system. Communism is a murderous governmental system.
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When wars start for its benefit, when it controls the media, when it controls healthcare, it's not "simply an economic system".
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Governments start wars, not a dollar bill. As far as media and healthcare; at least capitalism puts power in the hands of the individual instead of some regime who gets to decide what information gets out and decides who lives and dies.
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Ah yes the cranky old "you millennial kids need to read your history!" Instead of fixating on tired cliche's how about looking into WHY communism has seen resurgent popularity among youth.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/opinion/millennials-hate-capitalism.html …
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Great timing too - how many of your grad students are going to be fucked over by the repeal of the tuition waiver in the
#goptaxscam? I'm sure they'd love to hear the horrors of communism right now.
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Here's a novel idea: how about we consider that the right has been calling everything they don't like (Barack Obama) "communist" for God knows how long before taking Marxist memes at face value? Think of it as analogous to the left flippantly using "racist"/"fascist" if you like.
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I'm not a socialist or communist, but the failing of these articles is it presumes you won't learn from the mistakes and implement socialism in a better way, i.e without the purges or gulags.
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Yet it somehow always end with purges & gulags. And then new breed of idealists comes and says „We will implement it better, becouse we are so much wiser and so much more idealistic and we care so much!”. I know, if theory doesn’t meet reality, all too bad for reality. Been there
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Well people keep trying to invent a Facebook beater, and investors still invest in on-demand grocery. Socialism works best in homogenous societies. Other than that, I don't see any invariants that preclude socialism from possibly working.
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Obviously you don’t. Go visit North Korea. Very homogenous society. Typical practical implementation of socialism. Better yet, visit South Korea and talk to some survivors of North Korea. Here in Poland we still are searching for unmarked graves of thoso who opposed socialism.
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But it works in Scandinavia. I don't even really think people want full socialism; they just get confused when people spend $400 million on a painting.
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Visit Sweden. Experience paradise. You can even rape some local ladies. You will go free, don’t worry. Enjoy socialism.
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