
05 Dec 2011, 01:40
GOt a bit of delay in the editing, but updated my blog to speculate briefly on the stalin obsession that happens in both left and right. I hope to delve into that more Tuesday or Wednesday when I have a day off

14 Dec 2011, 06:36
okay, my friend who is doing the editing is having unemployment issues, so I will probably just upload the file as is this weekend.
For your reading pleasure, I have a post today about imperialist atrocities. Read at your leisure.

14 Dec 2011, 17:11
If I can remember to do it when I get off work, I'll link to you with my WordPress account.

14 Dec 2011, 20:54
I don't know TBH and i don't think it's true (actually i made a thread criticizing that same picture a year or so ago ),you can edit it if you wish.
This picture,while good in concept,is flawed and a new version should be made.

14 Dec 2011, 21:35
TBH while your article is brilliant, I don't like that picture, I think we should criticize crimes of "socialists" like Stalin while criticizing imperialism as well. Not in the "he was a baby eating maniac who killed a billion of people" way, but in the "he was not the worst mass murderer in history, but his programme was not socialism instead it was more of a brutal primitive accumulation and industrialization campaign, with the horrible "side effect" being many deaths" way.
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Neuron on 14 Dec 2011, 21:39, edited 2 times in total.

14 Dec 2011, 21:39
Im kind of halfway on Stalin. On one hand, I think he did a lot of important things, on the other hand, he did a lot of bad things.
It's almost always worthless to discuss Stalin with non-communists (and even many "new communists") because you are inevitably discussing the caricature of Stalin, not the actual deeds (good or bad).
My point in the article is that even if you accept the wild claims of 100 million dead, even that pales compared to what capitalism has caused in just the 20th century.

14 Dec 2011, 22:04
yeah, I dig the idea, but I'd want to change it up a bit.
Suggestions for a topic for the weekend btw?

14 Dec 2011, 22:14
That's something I've pondered actually, particularly after reading "Triumph of Evil"