- 02 Feb 2020 12:25
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To clarify, what I mean is that the world-historical capitalist system has created a global landscape of 'winners' and 'losers' among the nation-states -- the Western imperialist countries (England, France, U.S.) from the 19th century were ahead-of-the-game and fully industrialized by the time the emergent carve-up of the world came to a head, culminating in World War I.
Those who criticize 'communism' -- as Thai Traditionalist did -- automatically / necessarily do so in a one-sided, *propagandist* way, since such criticizing leaves out the other part of the world, those nations that were *attempting* to industrialize and move past feudal relations, the quintessential example being that of Russia in 1917.
'Gulagism' is unkind, unfair, and biased since the advanced Western imperialist countries have plenty of blood on their hands, which is what enabled them to be ahead of the pack early-on.
ckaihatsu wrote:
It's incredible that critiques of Stalinism -- 'gulagism' -- are invariably one-sided, to the point of being obviously propagandist.
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skinster wrote:
There are no real critiques because there is no real study, just bawling in emotive language.
It is amusing at least.
To clarify, what I mean is that the world-historical capitalist system has created a global landscape of 'winners' and 'losers' among the nation-states -- the Western imperialist countries (England, France, U.S.) from the 19th century were ahead-of-the-game and fully industrialized by the time the emergent carve-up of the world came to a head, culminating in World War I.
Those who criticize 'communism' -- as Thai Traditionalist did -- automatically / necessarily do so in a one-sided, *propagandist* way, since such criticizing leaves out the other part of the world, those nations that were *attempting* to industrialize and move past feudal relations, the quintessential example being that of Russia in 1917.
'Gulagism' is unkind, unfair, and biased since the advanced Western imperialist countries have plenty of blood on their hands, which is what enabled them to be ahead of the pack early-on.