Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis

Re:Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:51AM (#21324230)

This doesn’t give the Communists anywhere near enough credit for their own depravity or the energy and vigor they put into the suffering of their enemies. I do not recall the Tsarist regime using rape (in order of seniority) as a weapon of terror, or pouring molten lead down the throats of anyone like the Communists did to priests, or rolling Tsarist officers down hills in barrels studded with nails on the inside.

The Communists made the Tsarist regime look like rank amateurs in terror, they weren’t even trying in comparison

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Re:Mexico’s Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis by claudiawerner on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:21PM (#21325479)

>The Communists made the Tsarist regime look like rank amateurs in terror, they weren’t even trying in comparison

There is a certain danger in this sort of thinking which seeks to compare levels of terror quantitatively with disregard to their qualitative effects and purposes. The Bolsheviks are guilty of many evils, but not for the same reasons or purposes as the Tsar. Remember that Tsarist Russia didn't only operate on cases of immediate violence, it used structural ones too. Structural violence is well understood today.

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