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Why do you think so many people on the Marxist left defend Stalinism? (quokk.au)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Is it simply over-correcting in response to western anti-communist propaganda? I'd like to think it's simply memeing for memes sake, but it feels too genuine.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (4 children)

Further, I did, Dorothy Douglas lived in Poland for a time during socialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_W._Douglas

This Dorothy Douglas? On whom there's no information anywhere that she ever left the USA, yet lived in Poland?

If the other people you talked to share your sources then you might've been catfished or in an echo chamber?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Wikipedia doesn't contain all human knowledge, and is frequently wrong or missing info. Read the first few pages.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Interesting. I will try to look for anything corroborating that, because she was famously suspected to be a "Red" in the USA and she would've had her passport revoked.

    And the only Western economist that officially was invited to Poland in 1948 was Oskar Lange.

    Pugwash conferences started in 57.

    To have access to any economic data she would have to be approved by the USSR in 1948 and then likely she would have to be on the exit visa list, on which she is not - in 1949 there are 3 Americans of which she is neither.

    So if she were in Poland in 1948 or 1949 , with access to economic data, and left the USSR in 1949 she was better than Mata Hari. Good for her.

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