panopticon

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[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same energy as making it seem like Trotsky invented armored trains and the word racism

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He loves to say perrrmanent revolution and (imo) downplays the roles of Lenin and especially Stalin before and during the October revolution, really seems intent on making Trotsky the protagonist, doesn't really deal with Lenin's writings or theories, and makes it seem like Marx formulated the original labor theory of value, but other than that it gives a decent account of the sequence of events and the interconnected movements that gave rise to the revolution. I also felt like he did a good job of explaining the motivations and necessity of the Bolshevik takeover, mainly the provisional government continuing to drag the country through WWI. I might give it another listen, see if I feel the same way about it.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

It's only a hidden history because the NATO news engine buried the lede and treated the diplomatic negotiations as Russian propaganda

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Same and also there's COVID :|

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Thick neck on that dinosaur

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love how China just looks like The Future now

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Give me a scruffy couchguy communist that wants to hang out and hug

A wild New Type of Guy appears

 

Hey there, so I've got an Audible account (:cringe: ) that I've been meaning to cancel. I'm procrastinating because I've got 1 credit left to spend on a book, and these assholes don't let you keep your credits when you cancel your subscription, but I don't know what to spend it on.

I'm going on a fairly long drive through drought-affected, wildfire-burned areas and I don't want to be ruminating on the end of the world the whole time. Trying to climb out of the depressive rut that I've been in.

I know the situation is objectively bad, but to me, resolving the cycle of grief after acceptance means finding meaning, and I find meaning in looking for constructive things to orient my life towards. So what I'm looking for is along the lines of eco-socialism (a la Paul Cockshott), adaptation, how we can feasibly avert 2 or 3 degrees +, that sort of thing.

I would also be open to a book that discusses the potential for actual socialist revolution in the US/first world today, and a realistic idea of how that might happen.

Thank you!

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