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I've read most of your comments, and I get a really strange feeling from them. Almost like "I'm not going to bother reading Kruschev myself, but you all are WRONG because you've never read him".
As an ML community, we're committed to historical materialism (you can see an excellent overview of it from Marx here: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/h/i.htm#historical-materialism). What I take from that is we have can have a deeper understanding of history than "mere" historians, who still typically lack any understanding of class or political economy.
And we especially don't need to read all the "Great Men" who "made things happen". We know that history is a process of class struggle, and understand its outcomes as such
And I would add that there's especially little value in studying the far right if our goal is to understand what they want.
Sartre put it best:
I liked that you hid your reply to me behind another comment. Classy.
I like how you also quote an anti-communist in bad faith.
Never change.
Damn, so many ad hominems there comrade. Please fuck off.
You first. The mods already told us to stop with this convo.
Ciao.
Not at all.
I'm friends with Ismail and he got me interested in reading the other side of the story.
"I’ve read most of your comments, and I get a really strange feeling from them. Almost like “I’m not going to bother reading Kruschev myself, but you all are WRONG because you’ve never read him”."
Vibes aren't research.
No investigation, no right to speak!
So I'm supposed to "research" your views...by reading through this thread...which is what I did.
Keep attacking a strawman.
lol