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submitted 3 years ago* by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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https://defed.xyz No real surprises, but the list pales compared to Lemmygrad's still, they have 3x as many defeds.

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Glad to have you :rat-salute-2:

If you are looking for a good leftist take on Stalin that includes a whole chapter criticizing the USSR (but not from a U.S. propaganda angle), might I recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti? party-parenti Tons of free PDFs if you google it. Very readable, pretty short, and you can get a lot of the material from his lectures on YouTube if you're pressed for time.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Thanks, and thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.

    My main issue with him is due to the Tito-Stalin split. Non-aligned > USSR

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Mmm I can see it. Yeah, that's the type of criticism from the left stuff that makes sense.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Btw, the Drug of part of my nick is the Yugoslavian version of comrade. Drug/Drugarica means male/female friend.

    And to return a book recommendation, "counterrevolution and revolt" has some great points against using Marx and Soviet literature to educate new revolutionaries.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago*

    I think on the other hand you really have to consider the fact that if there was no soviet union then the capitalist powers would have torn Yugoslavia apart. It took a major world power being communist to occupy all the west's attention

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Parenti's analysis of Stalin in Blackshirts and Reds is the weakest part of an otherwise excellent book. I can't really fault him as at the time of writing, the Soviet archives had not yet been analyzed in their entirety. For a better analysis that focuses specifically on Stalin, read Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend.

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