For the Revival of the Land Based Civilizations, Multipolarity, Socialism with Finnish Characteristics, Neutrality & Friendly Relations with China & Russia.
@MSiira71 Kyllä, Pekka Toverihan on ihan helvetin tyhmä, mutta Pekka Visuri on hyvä tutkija. Hellenbergin ja Visurin kirja Ukrainan sodasta "Tulilinja: Ukraina ja uusi maailmanjärjestys" on yllättävän järkevä suomalaisten kirjoittamaksi.
@haugejostein I did that when I was 16 years old, but as an adult actually reading the scholarship and learning how accurate historical and social research is done it's just becomes so obvious that these popular books in the West about the Mao era are shit.
@haugejostein Pretty big disconnect between the public views and academic views about the Mao era. Dikötter, Jung Chang and some other ones haven't produced actual scholarship that meets academic standards in the West, but still these are the ones people tend to turn to.
@961957192q83556 Mao was one of the greatest leaders of all time. There are also many western historians who also show this like Maurice Meisner, John King Fairbank, Lee Feigon, Chris Bramall, Ken Hammond...Indeed it was basically western scholars who immediately criticized Chang's shitty book.
@haugejostein There is a lot of great work on the Mao period, even from western scholars like Maurice Meisner, Kenneth Hammond, Lee Feigon, Chris Bramall, Carl Riskin etc.
@haugejostein Not really though because it wasn't tens of millions. There is a ton of academic work on this, disproving claims from people like Dikötter. Yang Songling's book is one of the best on the subject. The other part is ofc in what context did these things happen, how and why.
Capitalism is a step toward Communism, yes. State Capitalism is the transitionary form toward Socialism. Capitalism itself was not possible without “theft of intellectual property” in the form of busting trade guilds secrets & making them the commons of what we now call Science. The industrial revolution in America is a heroic tale of “IP Theft.” But now answer me this— what nation leads the world in patents for ai applications to industrial robots?
Crazy thing for an Indian to say considering China has pulled more people from poverty than the number of people India currently has in poverty.
It’s like the perfect side by side comparison of Communism vs Capitalism.
@itsdaniryan@TimothyDSnyder Well all of his work has always been absolute bullshit. Even in the group of historians who hate USSR and Russia there are many better ones like Stephen Kotkin. He at least has some serious works like Magnetic Mountain.
Why then did "Stalinism" as the specific process of building socialism in one country then result in a global revolution and "simultaneity"? Between 1945 and well into the 1980s there were numerous Marxist-Leninist revolutions and socialist states established across the globe: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, and Grenada, among others. The core postwar Eastern European socialist states alone included Poland, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania, while Yugoslavia followed an independent socialist course after its 1948 split with the USSR. By the late 1970s, Marxist-Leninist or communist-led governments stretched from Central Europe across enormous portions of Asia and into Africa and the Caribbean. Whatever judgment one makes about these states individually, this creates an obvious historical problem for the claim that "socialism in one country" meant the abandonment of world revolution: the consolidation and industrialization of the USSR was followed within a generation by the greatest geographical expansion of communist state power in history.
The global realization of Leninism literally was Marxism Leninism and Stalin.