I don’t think the NEP in itself was a bad idea but it required a far stronger hand on the part of the government

Try badempanada

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There’s a difference between leftism as a social dynamic and leftism as a political philosophy
Vaush exhibits leftism as a social dynamic as it exists in the west, but he embodies very little of anything reminiscent of the political philosophy

Is the supreme court going crayz an argument for judicial blanquism?

blanquest an cap acceleratism is going hard

i’ve never heard of this

When exactly did liberals start viewing the world through the lens of democracy vs authoritarianism

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post ww2 reconstruction period

we are no longer unemployable

I would think it somewhat coincided with the rise of "containment" foreign policy so all that s*** is wrapped up into one . and yeah post ww2 / cold war

I think it wouldn't be too hard to trace it to the president speeches language like... how was FDR talking about war and fighting versus Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, and then Nixon

Also someone like Nixon was working on Anti-communist bullshit long before he became president

me thinking about all these guys being the leaders wtf bruh scust

Once the civilized people vs savage people stuff wasn't acceptable anymore and they had to find a new angle for the same thing

@Scratchin_Bandit It's kinda crayz like pairing those aggressive euphemisms with all the cognitive dissonance having to be maintained in America at any given time.

4 years of posting in KTT socialism thread is equivalent to earning your Marxism degree.

Definiitely has something to do with Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism which compared Hitlerism to Stalinism

there was a cecil rhodes excerpt in my book and he said imperialism is necessary unless you would like to have a civil war in your country. this is just propaganda right?

Seems non-sensical to say

cecil rhodes was a lunatic

makes no sense

imperialism fuels civil wars by creating instability, poverty, hunger, corruption, etc. in developing countries

i guess it avoids civils wars in the imperialist bloc by keeping their populations materially well off and well fed