Re:An Anarchist Critique of Democracy (2005)
by abiox on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:54PM
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the 100 million meme seems like such lame propaganda. when stalin starved ukraine, were those deaths "because of communism"?
Re:An Anarchist Critique of Democracy (2005)
by mr_spothawk on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:25AM
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well.. Stalinism is a subset of Socialism, i guess. [1]
and i don't know anything but lame propaganda, so i'm left to ask wikipedia about the starvation pieces too:
> Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Re:An Anarchist Critique of Democracy (2005)
by abiox on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:59PM
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to be clear, i wasn't suggesting that starving ukraine was fake or propaganda. my point is about how such an event is used in propaganda.
dictatorship is dictatorship, regardless of any claims to social or economic organization.
what'd I just read? I think it was something like "100 million people died in the 20th century" because Marxism [1]
> How to make a political program out of anarchism?
nah bruh... the article is explicit:
> We are anti-political because we are interested in the self-organization of the power of individuals. This tension towards self-organization is completely orthogonal to democracy in any of its various forms.
[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hun...