Communist Failures

[The Cat]

Perhaps but internet isn't exactly "the real deal". Until you are governed by these people the odds are that you wouldn't see the problem for what it is.
Plus if they hang on the internet doing "chat" the odds are that this isn't far left either. Those people you are talking about are mostly what it is called "red anarchists" or "progressives" .... or something similar to that.

Lot of tankie shills and people who have just sold out to moneyed interests as well

 

[ygolo]

The depth of analysis on the failure of capitalism is abound. I have read a lot of that literature. The neoliberal consensus is not something I hold dear at all.

Against ‘‘CAPITALIST REALISM’’ and the ‘‘NEOLIBERAL STATE’’

Against ‘‘CAPITALIST REALISM’’ and the ‘‘NEOLIBERAL STATE’’ - The International Magz

www.internationalmagz.com

History in Kerala: New Beginning of Left Chapter in India?

History in Kerala: New Beginning of Left Chapter in India? - The International Magz

www.internationalmagz.com

I am pointing out, however, that there are well trod paths in the Communist direction that ended really badly as well.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Lot of tankie shills and people who have just sold out to moneyed interests as well

Yes, but talking about the subject, glorifying the subject for money, thinking about the subject ... that is all quite different than actually living the idea 24/7 in practice (regardless if you like it or not).

 

[The Cat]

Yes, but talking about the subject, glorifying the subject for money, thinking about the subject ... that is all quite different than actually living the idea 24/7 in practice (regardless if you like it or not).

Very very true. Careful with that though. Such knowledge could break the internet.

 

[ygolo]

The chaos still haunting China

Mao's Cultural Revolution ended over 40 years ago, but for the country's leaders fear of the darkness it released still justifies their authoritarian ...

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Cultural Revolution Ceramics

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Chronology of Mass Killings during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) | Sciences Po Mass Violence and Resistance - Research Network

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[ygolo]

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Genocide in Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge, under the leadership of Pol Pot seized power in Cambodia between 1975-79. All towns and cities were emptied and their populations forced to work as agricultural slave labourers in a federation of collective farms, known as 'The Killing Fields'. Minority ethnic groups were also...

www.hmd.org.uk

Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia

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Cambodia

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Khmer Rouge ideology

The Khmer Rouge’s interpretation of Maoist communism drove them to create a classless society, simply by eliminating all social classes except for the ‘old people’ – poor peasants who worked the land.

www.hmd.org.uk

Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality

At least two million people died as the Marxist regime tried to turn back the clock in Cambodia.

www.bbc.com

Cambodian Genocide

In 1975, a communist regime known as the Khmer Rouge conquered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The occupation set in motion a four-year campaign of genocide that would wipe out 2 million people – a quarter of the country’s population. Developed through a partnership between USC Shoah...

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[ygolo]

Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine - PMC

The United States witnessed an unprecedented politicization of biomedical science starting in 2015 that has exploded into a complex, multimodal anti-science empire operating through mass media, political elections, legislation, and even health ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lysenkoism - Wikipedia

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Repression of science in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics and how it was eventually defeated - PMC

Genetics in the Soviet Union (USSR) achieved state-of-the-art results and had reached a peak of development by the mid-1930s due to the efforts of the scientific schools of several major figures, including Sergei Navashin, Nikolai Koltsov, Grigorii ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Industrial Party Trial - Wikipedia

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https://scholarshare.temple.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12613/3750/Vidumsky_temple_0225M_10625.pdf

Russia's century of scientific autarky

The Tsarist administration, the Bolshevik NKVD and its successor agencies under Putin have all constrained and distorted the scientific project in Russia. Their legacy is one of thwarted potential and technological underachievement.

engelsbergideas.com