alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns, any]

Ooh, that title reminds me of one of my favourite catchphrases. “The biggest lie you were ever told about the Cold War, is that the American people won, not just the global bourgeoisie.”

We are known for “walls of text”.

Other way around for me - got into Linux because some comrades were saying real commies use it, I was really mad at Windows that day to begin with, and I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it out. Found out it’s… sucky in different ways, but in ways that frustrate me less and where I tend to be angry at myself for screwing something up rather than angry at a corporation for being hostile to its customers, which is something I’m angry about far too often as it is.

Thank you.

Yes. Hopefully this sharp contradiction will inspire better organization and some revolutionary action.

Oh, they did that? That sucks.

It seems like almost every leftist site out there is run by Trots, who generally dislike Stalin. They might suck at literally everything else, but credit where credit’s due, they were decent at getting this stuff up and running in the early days of the technology involved.

Do you know a more trustworthy source for Stalin’s works? If I’m going to read them, I don’t need some Trot’s ideological edits, I want the text as written.

I… I thought banning the omnipresent complete joke “leftist/Marxist book club” that literally does nothing, was, like, nonsense out of bad American “Cold War pulp novel” type fiction. Like, sure, I wouldn’t be shocked if Cold War America did that, they banned every other way communists organise, but a sensible and “civilised” country banning a book club, that’s just… absurd.

I should know better by now, to not let my jaw hit the floor when I see a headline ripped straight out of the Cold War appearing in the current news, but yet, I keep thinking it can’t get crazier and then it does. It’s almost getting to a point where we can play my favourite horror game down the party hall, throw a few real modern headlines and a few shocking taglines for similarly awful and insane real Cold War stories in a hat, mix them up, pull a headline and guess if it happened in the height of the Cold War or this year.

Most of what I’ve listened to from S4A isn’t bad, admittedly there are some interjections and editorialising, but mostly I’ve just heard fairly unbiased historical context notes so far. Not a bad source for Lenin’s stuff, but also, Lenin’s a lot less controversial than some authors. The things by Stalin I’ve listened to were pretty devoid of editorial additions, too. I wouldn’t be too surprised if there’s some worse ones in the collection. And yeah, he does use MIA as a definitive source for all the texts, but MIA aren’t really that bad. Sure, they’ve got odd warnings on their Lenin page, and weirder ones on their Stalin page, but, like, they’re trying to be a tendency neutral text repository rather than a Leftist Website.