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What academic history have you read?
my other account: https://hexbear.net/u/mathemachristian
What academic history have you read?
Alright, lets start you off with readsettlers.org then
I bet you dont read many history books.
Richtig cool dass die Alternativen haben und nicht hierher müssen, andere Arbeiter haben das leider nicht. Unsereins lernt von sowas nix, aber freut mich ernsthaft zu hören dass die sich den scheiss hier nicht bieten lassen müssen.
It isn’t 😄
I assume you saw it, but others might not. I replied to a similar question here:
That comes after very in-depth reading. What got me that far to even trust their judgement that this kind of research would be worth my time was the fact that they were consistently right about takes on the USSR that seemed ludicrous. Just that they seemed to really know their stuff about USSR history especially the Stalin era. So I started reading
Michael Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds
a rather short book about anticommunism in the west. I already had very left views but what stuck with me was that I required a revolution to be “perfect”, the outcome sure and everyone had to be happy, an unrealistic standard considering the kind of fundamental change I envisioned. Or in Parenti’s words:
The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
Once I had conceded my previous “anti-tankie” views and thought of the USSR not as a failed revolution that started of well-intentioned but was led astray by power hungry dictators, but as a successful revolution that had to endure a constant onslaught, physical as well as political, I was “through the looking glass” so to speak.
Then the genocide in Gaza happened and I kind of looked at the countries we were allied with, who were consistently some of the worst offenders of human rights. The whole supporting violent dictatorships in former colonies wasn’t news to me, but when put into perspective I had a “Damn we really are the baddies aren’t we” moment.
I realise that this doesn’t answer your question on Ukraine and the Uighurs but that’s because I don’t have the time right now to get into a debate on that, and the original question was on what changed my mind about it which was less the actual research I then put into, but the heavy-lifting on even questioning the western narrative was done before that.
To answer your question in a nutshell however: The reason the situation in Ukraine deteriorated this far, to the point that the ethnic russians in Ukraine had to even put up “self-defense” forces was meddling of western capitalist forces. The article that I keep referencing on that is ( CW for pictures of dead bodies and gruesome descriptions of fascist violence):
The open fascism in the paramilitary groups that later got put under the umbrella of the Ukrainian army was an open question mark for me, this article gives a very detailed answer to that. The details in that report post 2014 are corroborated in the UN reports as well:
As for the so-called “genocide” of Uighurs in China, the “evidence” is very very circumstantial especially considering the scale alleged. Millions of people are alleged to be held in internment at some point, a scale that should be visible from space. I mean manhattan has a population of 1.7 million, where are all these people interned?? As an example of one of the oddities about the whole allegations. The only countries that seem to care are outspoken anti-communist countries, with the whole muslim world not considering the crackdown on religious extremism in Xinjiang a genocide. All the articles I kept getting linked were “oh how terrible the situation there is, what an evil evil government” with no one seemingly caring about the actual people. It’s all just treated as an abstract talking point. And the only references boiling down to two reports by Adrian Zenz
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2018.1507997
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2021.1946483
a person with some questionable viewpoints
All the stuff around it seems to be pushed by Washington based anti-communist thinktanks trying to establish an “east turkestan”. The whole movement is heavily US-financed. See here for more info:
That’s what changed my mind about it all anyway, but like I said I probably will not be able to go into more depth about this, as I have spent too much time on this already.
The ussr and china were evil and nato were the good guys fighting for freedom.
Boy was I wrong on that one. What changed my mind were the tankies on hexbear who consistently were the most knowledgable on a topic and kept being correct with (what I thought at the time) the most obviously incorrect takes.
haha exact opposite for me
Could be that there is a law against storing data outside of the EU that might pertain to your school situation, so you might have a right violated. Though fighting that is quite a bit of work. You’d want to escalate things with your school first, but in order to do so be knowledgeable on the issue which requires a big time investment and in the end if your school doesn’t care they are probably gonna bet on you not seeking legal recourse. Which is such a ginormous amount of work they could be right depending on the resources you have.
That’s not to say its a battle not worth having, but its quite the battle if the school doesn’t care, because they can just stonewall and its up to you to overcome it.
As an alternative I unfortunately don’t know of any except a self hosted moodle solution which is a hefty amount of work for the school and might be reason enough for them to deflect or stonewall on the issue. So I wouldn’t go into that with them, let them do their own research on alternatives maybe they can come up with something since they have different resources and connections than you do.
Klassensuizid ist der einzige Weg aus der Unmenschlichkeit der Ausbeutung anderer. Dabei ist ein Verkauf an andere Kapitalisten sicher nicht das was gemeint ist, sondern eine Kollektivierung des privaten Besitzes zugunsten der Arbeiter welche aus dem Material etwas vermarktbares schaffen.
Wenn ein liberaler eine Rede hält applaudieren Faschisten mit.
Why not? It makes sense to me, it carried me through some very difficult times and is a good way to think about how I interact with the world and my moral framework.
What do you mean “politically conservative”?
Edit: more to the point, political conservatism is characterized by the opposition to social transformation, yet you also say of yourself that you’re an ardent feminist and aspiring antiracist. Which seems like a contradiction to me.
Bulgur is really good. You can prepare a lot of kisir and eat it in portions
Den Rasen können wir hinterher immer noch angreifen :sicko:
Hast ja auch recht, aber Bürger verstehen es so halt besser. “Stell dir vor die Nazis würden deinen Rasen angreifen”, hast sie sofort auf deiner Seite.
Ich hab aufgehört Unkraut zu jäten kommt eh immer wieder ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Auch dumme Nazis sind Nazis. Tut mir leid dass du einen Nazi in deinem Bekanntenkreis hast aber auch solche “dummen” Menschen gabs in der NSDAP, sind trotzdem Nazis. Es gab jüdische oder homosexuelle Nazis.
Und das mit dem Afd verbieten bringt nichts da kommt dann eh die nächste Partei ist so eine hohle Aussage, die verbieten wir dann auch. Jede rechtsextreme Bewegung gehört erstickt und nur weil es nie ein Ende finden wird ist dass doch kein Grund nichts zu tun.
Perfect response. Just 😗👌.