Hello, I am Edie, not Cowbee.
Edie
joined 9 months ago
Cowbee isnt praising a dictator, like its not even written in a way where you can maybe misunderstand it as such.
Why do people keep having such a hard time reading? Is this the USA education system?
When speaking among comrades, however, you’ll find the nuance you say is usually lacked.
Go to the hexbear news thread and read xiaohongshu break down problems with Chinas economy, stuff the tankie-haters would have you believe would get xiaohongshu banned.
Your joke wasn't funny.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
— Mao
Although I have limited knowledge of Marx, I would have assumed that he thought more along the lines of Mao.
Similarly: Saying we shouldn't read theory, is akin to saying we shouldn't learn science. You are going to have a very difficult time doing particle physics if you have no understanding of the world. Exactly as we say that without theory you are just going to be redoing the same stuff, so would every scientist have to rediscover the basics.
One might say that Marx is like Newton, describing/discovering many things and setting a foundation for their field. Saying "we shouldn't read Newton because his stuff is old" or that his ideas are wrong simply because they are old is ludicrous. Both of them probably had things they got wrong, sure, and newer theory corrects this, but they still set the foundations.
While one might not read Newton directly in school, so for some Marxist theory it is too (see Elementary Principles of Philosophy teaching DiaMat), but Marxs books that haven't been superseded in this way should still be read.
That’s why most countries are what we call “mixed economies”, that mix elements of capitalism and socialism.
No. They are capitalist.
On the southern Kazak steppe an aged yellow-skinned herdsman, dying, sent a last message to his son who had been village president and who was now elected delegate to the All-Union Congress: “All the years of my life were dark with toil and hunger. But I lived to see the new day. Take care of the Soviet power, my son; it is our power, our happiness.”
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I highly recommend you check out all the other stuff people have recommended, but I would like to add two books:
The first one, which I really like, This Soviet World by Anna L. Strong, talks about life in the Soviet Union. Secondly, Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan, which while being more focused on it's name sake, soviet democracy, does talk about life and society and is interesting.
A somewhat nerdy book Russian Justice, Mary S. Callcott, describes the justice system and prisons. Finally I have begun reading Red medicine: socialized health in Soviet Russia (Arthur Newsholme & John A. Kingsbury, 1933), but since I haven't finished it I won't recommend it, simply just mentioning it.