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(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting.

"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting ... they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it," Putin said, without providing evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of him so I couldn’t say one way or the other

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Fair enough I suppose. He's a historian and political activist, and one of the most prominently published marxists in the later half of the 20th century. He wrote classics like Democracy for the Few, Black Shirts and Reds, A People's History of Ancient Rome, Against Empire, To Kill a Nation, and many more. He was one of the faces of protest against the Vietnam War, and broke off his friendship with Sanders because Bernie supported the bombing of Yugoslavia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just realized I have one of his books in my audible library, I’d counter recommend The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin and The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow, based on the ideas you described two comments ago I think you’d get a lot out of both

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'll have to check them out, honest to goodness I love expanding my understanding of political philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How does he view something like China or Stalin?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He hasn't written or given many speeches about those topics from what I've seen, so I couldn't say for certain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

OK, too bad. They'd be quite telling