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What are you currently reading? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I visited the commie bookstore in town today and I picked up a copy of Manufacturing Consent because it seemed appropriate for the current times. I also got a copy of Motorcycle Diaries.

On the way home I also passed a Falun Gong stand. They were doing some dance.

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[–] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 7 months ago

Yes actually, it's a sobering reminder that communism isn't a utopia, and that there's a lot more to people's needs after the basics have been covered.

I do think he might have been a little too harsh on Stalin though, the man tried to quit four times (and they wouldn't let him! some dictator lol) and was at the head of a socialist state that was constantly under siege from capitalist and reactionary forces in and out. Mistakes were made but that's just cause nothing is perfect, if the USSR really had a major flaw it was that it was unable to understand the needs of the people and learn from their mistakes.