The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
The US is a weird country: a middle-of-the road politician is defeated by an extreme right winger and this is described, inevitably, in terms brainwashed peasants have never been allowed to understand, terms that apply only in democratic countries. No wonder you get a senile windbag like trumpf!
Speaking of being knowledgeable about history,
I guarantee you there are virtually no conservatives here who know, without googling, who Aleksandr Kerensky is, what the difference between Boksheviks, Mensheviks, and the Socialist Revolutionary Party is, what the White movement was, what the distinctions between Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin was, what the distinctions between the February and October Revolution were, what the origin and nature of the Russian civil war was, who Leon Trotsky was, what Article 58 of the penal code was and how Stalin used it, nor could they speak intelligently or at depth about the history of the Siberian labour camps and the Gulag, and there are almost no rightwing message board posters who have actually read Gulag Archipelago from front to back cover .
Yes, what conservatives think they know about the USSR originate from non-Russians on American rightwing talk radio or the right wing media.
My perspective is this: my Grandfather and several great Uncles were pro-tsarist, served in the imperial army, and had sympathies for the White movement during the Russian civil war. Several of them ended up being arrested and sentenced to the Gulag forced labor camps.
On the flip side, a great- great uncle was a noted member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, advocated for a democratic socialist Republic to replace the autocracy of the Tsar, and fought on the barricades of the Presnya district of Moscow in the 1905 revolution. These same Socialist Revolutionaries were among the first to take up arms and resist the totalitarian Bolsheviks after the 1917 coup overthrow of the provisional government.
I feel like I have a rich perspective and understanding of the history of Soviet comnunism in a way rightwing posters do not.
Charoite (03-07-2020)
We really have to ask the question, which is worse socialism or plutocracy????????????????????
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
You do not know jack shit about communism, socialism, and the history of the Soviet Union. The point of my post made you realize how very little you actually do know, and the tiny amount you do know is from superficial caricatures you heard on American talk radio and right wing media.
Your knowledge of the history of communism and Karl Marx is utterly superficial, flawed, and carries no weight or authority whatsoever.
Edit to add: you will be hard pressed to find a body of posts illustrating me bragging, blustering, or bloviating in self impotance.
I generally keep my mouth shut on topics I know nothing about. And I am not going to apologize for being informed and educated on certain topics.
Your posts are almost invariably mind numbingly verbose, repetitive and lengthy word salads, which is a leading indicator of a subpar poster a little too impressed with themselves
Last edited by Cypress; 03-07-2020 at 12:46 PM.
Charoite (03-07-2020), christiefan915 (03-09-2020)
Your thread is total BS that is besides the point. The point that has to be settled first is White or non-white. You can't have both. Nature just doesn't work that way. It never has. Nor will it ever.
Stacey Abrams would be the most preposterous vice-presidential pick ever
By Rich Lowry
May 18, 2020 | 8:03pm
https://nypost.com/2020/05/18/stacey...ial-pick-ever/
Synonyms for preposterous
absurd
crazy
excessive
fantastic
foolish
impossible
incredible
insane
irrational
laughable
ludicrous
nonsensical
outrageous
senseless
shocking
silly
stupid
unbelievable
unreasonable
unthinkable
asinine
exorbitant
extravagant
extreme
far-out
harebrained
monstrous
out of the question
taking the cake
thick
too much
unusual
wacky
wild
I would add ‘asshole’.
p.s. Senile Joe Biden barely has a pulse; so he will not know or care who his V.P. is. The question is: Will bureaucrats put Stacey Abrams on the ticket?
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
AOC will do drool duty:
Bernie Sanders is assigned to change Senile Joe’s adult diapers.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
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