I remember reading a report by a Japanese think tank on the history of film in the dprk, where they described a film that had a fairly plain romance plot as being incredible because up to that point “state ideology only acknowledged love between the people and the Glorious Leader, not between individuals,” which is just the most unhinged take.
I know it’s a boring answer that has already been given, but I really think it’s just projection + making the book more marketable by putting a sex fantasy plot in it. I’ve never seen even a vague gesture at what the USSR would have had as an “Anti-Sex League”, and the anglosphere is filled with them (and was even more so at the time), and it’s objectifying Julia in a perfectly anglo fashion, i.e. a young maiden presses you, a middle-aged schlub, into cradle-robbing
Are you sure that bad isn’t baed and elephant isn’t something else?
These are literal translations of names mostly chosen for sounding at least a little like the country’s name in its own language
Well, the west doesn’t recognize it as a country in the first place, so it’s consistent.
That some people would buy something does not mean the proletariat as a bloc supports it. Very many people think sports gambling on this digital industrial scale is absolutely fucked, and from a democratic standpoint, if the majority believe that, the thing to do is ban it. Moreover, even among the 19% of Americans who use these apps (and not all of them are devotees, mind), a meaningful portion of them are there because of advertising glamorizing the apps, and a fair portion are still there because they are addicts, i.e. it’s not a choice being made freely. It seems like an obvious measure to present the options of banning or re-legalizing it with a discussion on things like gambling addiction.
As an aside, I am once again asking you to read Mao: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm#g9 . Once workers are given power, it is entirely possible for them to take action against the gambling that has troubled their community under the dictatorship of the owning class.
Based on limited information, I don’t like all of the measures described there, but I think it’s unquestionably superior to the previous state of things because what is lost were some cultural affectations and hobbies, and what was gained was freedom from both psychological and chemical addictions, along with food security, safety from banditry, lower rent, political representation, etc.
None of them are good, but 9 is truly wretched
Odd that the pants are all hell
“. . . well yeah, I’d veto any such bill, but I’ll tell congress to keep trying if it wants to”
You are fedposting to the right of the Ayatollah whose countrymen you appropriated that slogan from. “Death to America” does not mean “Death to All Americans” or “Most Americans” or even necessarily “Very Many Americans,” it means “Death to America”, you know, the state that is responsible for perpetrating the crimes that I don’t need to list off. Calling the slaughter of a population desirable because of how white it is (or isn’t, obviously) is unhinged, reactionary racial chauvinism. It’s replacing class analysis with racial essentialism and then adding punitive justice on top of it all. To promote such a thing, whatever your intentions, you are a wrecker.
It’s also cool in Sorcery
Yeah, you’re right, my bad
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I think the main things to understand are, first, that the SU was already mainly controlled by revisionists before Stalin even died, reducing Stalin to a borderline figurehead for revisionists to work under. Secondly, the Secret Speech included extensive deception in its accusations against Stalin and co., with a very long list of supposed crimes that were “not previously known” because they either didn’t happen at all or didn’t happen as Khrushchev depicted them, which contributed to making Stalin look monstrous and therefore make destalinization look appealing. Third, Khrushchev purged high-profile supporters of Stalin, most notably Beria, which really made it less viable and less appealing to oppose destalinization. Lastly he kind of did get pressured out of office eventually, not because of destalinization but for the adjacent reason that he just kind of didn’t know what he was doing, which is only to be expected from someone like him.
guy appears (who signed orders as well, mind you) saying no more purges, you can do whatever ;) and thus cements his power
Except destalinization also included purges
The real mistake is doing it when you’ve also swallowed potting soil and fertilizer. It’s kind of like eating baking soda and vinegar, if you understand my meaning.
My understanding is that peasants need to work land for subsistence while landlords just collect rent.
What’s the connection between Britain and Room 101? Well, I guess they probably did a fair amount of torture.