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Post by lets get to truth on Oct 28, 2003 12:15:40 GMT -5
Many people have been taught that revolution and radical change leads to disaster.
Everyone has heard "Communism is a good idea, but because of human nature the impulse leads to totalitarianism." And various episodes of history are offered as examples. Those examples need to be analyzed and answered.
At the same time there are "buried episodes" -- the powerful inspirational essense of revolution in our times. And we need to tell each other about them.
In this thread, lets list questions about the history of communism,
And lets list good, interesting (or controversial) online articles that deal with these issues.
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Post by ok on Oct 28, 2003 12:27:53 GMT -5
Here are some negative incidents listed on another board:
1. The Hundred Flowers
2. The Ukraine Famine
3. The Purges
4. The Great Leap Forward
5. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
6. The Liquidation of the Kulaks
7. The Persecution of Homosexuals in Socialist Countries
8. Anti-semitism in USSR
9. Attack on "Freedom of Religion" in Socialist Countries.
10. Attack on "Individual/Artistic Freedoms" in Socialist Countries.
11. Totalitarianism--when speaking of the "1984"esque accusations.
12. That Socialist societies (namely Cuba, USSR, DPRK, and China) have been dictatorships by one man.13. The Persecution of the Mesquite Indians by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
14. Allende was an economic downfall for Chile.
15. The "mass slaughter" by the PCP led by Chairman Gonzalo.
16. Cult of Personality--relating to nearly all Socialist Countries.
17. Mao was a "Nationalist".
18. Stalin was a "Nationalist".
19. The Forced Labor Camps in Socialist Countries.
20. The (forced) Collectivization in Socialist Countries.
Some of the positive incidents that people "don't know about":
!) the january storm of shanghai
2) the story of "the yenan way" from the great liberated zone of yenan
3) the story of th 20,000 working class youth who volunteered to risk their lives for collectivizaiton in russia
4) the story of how women dropped the veil incentral asia after the russian revolution
5) the story of the women "petreuleuse" and cannoneers during the paris commune
6) The story of the red guards and how they were formed.
7) the story of how the peasants shocked the Chinese comunust party conservatives by forming "people's comunes" and how the revolutoinaries stood by them in the great leap forward.
8) How drug addiction was eliminated in china
9) how the farmers and students of Vietnam defeated the greatest power on earth --
10) the hidden story of rukum and rolpa (the most powerful centers of communist revolution today)
11) the story of the naxalite uprising in India -- the spring thunder that rocked the world
12) The stories of Taichai and Taiching -- the struggle to make workplaces where the masses rule and radical new relationships are forged
13) The heroic story of how German communists fought the nazis -- even inside concentration camps
14) The days of May 1968 in france
15) How the "Great Polemics" of 1963 gave a new fresh birth to revolutionary communism -- and exposed the gray, conservative, oppressive hand of the revisionist eastern bloc
16) the Gang of Four -- risking death to defy the snakes of capitalist restoration
17) how women took the stage in Chinese culture -- the story of the great revolutionary musicals of the cultural revolution
18) running elitism out of education -- cultural revolution and schools.
19) The day Karl Marx faced off the pigs with a pistol, and defended the revolutionary press
there are thousands more positive stories
Make a new thread out of the one you want to discuss
then lets dig in.
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Post by ok on Oct 28, 2003 12:29:25 GMT -5
I just want to say that the so-called "negative incidents" are often fabrications.
they are always more complicated than the anti-communists portray.
They often are the opposite of what the anti-communists portray.
And they are always, always important lessons for the revolutionaries to learn from.
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Post by Comrade Joseph on Oct 28, 2003 16:28:32 GMT -5
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