We are centrists
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In the mid-1930S, a debate is raging in the Politburo of the Bolshevik. will there be money in communism or not? The Leftist Trotskytes claim there will be no money since money is only needed in societies with private ownership, while the Rightist partisans of Bukharin claim that of course there will be money in communism since every complex society needs money to regulate the exchange or products. When, finally, Comrade Stalin intervenes, he rejects both the Leftist and the Rightist deviations, claiming that the truth is a higher dialectical synthesis of the opposites. When other Politburo members ask him how this synthesis will look, Stalin calmly answers: “There will be money and there will not be money. Some will have money and others will not have it.”
And the politburo was enlightened
I remember this like HOI4 focus tree for the USSR (I know, I know) where it said the left for trotsky, the center for stalin and the right for bukharin, and that gave me a bit of curiosity in what it meant and so I researched and got around to the same vague sense of thought that I eventually pressed on to actual Soviet research.
BTW, if you have seen a WW2-era USSR HOI4 focus tree that isn’t vanilla (which, admittedly has a lot of flaws) let me know.
World Ablaze has a USSR focus tree that I remember being pretty cool, but that mod is difficult as hell
The Total War mod is like advanced vanilla with a very detailed focus tree without going fully Black Ice levels of complexity
5·22 days agoRoad to 56? Although its probably like vanilla.
Yeah It’s very similar, I know someone (I don’t remember) had like criticisms on the paranoia system on Stalin, and maybe the portrayal of the Great Purges, I’m not sure, but I don’t play vanillla/WW2 era HOI4 that much currently… (The Fire Rises HOI4 mention lol)
This would be really funny if not for the ableist language
It’s interesting how a derogatory term like lunatic was actually less judgmental in its original inception since it implied a common human condition rather than implying an essential character of a person.
Yeah I appreciate hexbear making me realize how often I used or read ableist terms. Used to not exactly understand it when I was just learning English, thinking it had to do with being mean or something. But hexbear really got me to understand it and now I see it all the time and it really feels absurd how often we use essentializing language about mental health and abilities but the meaning is basically empty. “Stupid” or “lunatic” actually just hold the meaning of “bad” or “something I don’t like” in a demeaning way. But there are just better words every time, and less lazy, with no externalities created
