RollaD20 [comrade/them, any]
https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/
The book fraud, famine, and fascism by Douglass Tottle is quite comprehensive if you can convince them to read it (it’s on libgen).
Had a colorful candy-like piece that I called “Willy Bongka”
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Yeah that’s what clued me in as well
He was a class traitor simple as. Many people operate against the benefits of their own class. Just as some of the underclass will sell out their fellow workers for a portion of the loot, some of the ruling class will act to dismantle the system of looting. While class is important, it is not the end all be all to understanding a person.
Also the unfortunate truth is that most people who are going to be able to gain a stronger theoretical understanding of capitalism, economics, philosophy, etc. require leisure time in order to do that. And leisure time requires money
There are obviously a lot of ways to look at the war between Russia and Ukraine, but if we are looking at it from its geopolitical antagonism with NATO, then it needs to be understood as a conflict that the West has wanted and taken action to foment for decades. Some people speak of Russia invading Ukraine as if it was something done on a whim rather than a military action that was at least viewed as necessary for Russian national security. While the invasion soured Russia’s image and has ruined relations with some bordering countries, Russia almost certainly didn’t see any other course of action other than invasion due to the threat of NATO encirclement along with the western puppet government of Ukraine. Regardless of the goals of diminishing NATO or not, this conflict was a seemingly inevitable proxy war between NATO and Russia following Maidan. The fact that the war is happening at all is a victory for NATO and the west because it means they’ve driven a semi-permanent wedge between Russia and Ukraine, at this point its about limiting further NATO gains. I find it deeply tragic that there weren’t diplomatic ways to ensure the security of both Ukraine and Russia and wish that the war wasn’t deemed necessary, add it to the list of post-soviet tragedies.
All that said, if we are discussing how this conflict relates to the dissolution of NATO. I don’t think it does, at least not immediately or directly which is why I think the sooner the war is over the better. Russia is most a threat to the imperial core through providing military support to anti-imperialist efforts like those in West Africa, but they can’t ignore dangerous western provocation in neighboring countries either.
Needs at least one reply that’s just a wall of text to be fully accurate.
This is about H.G. Wells, not Orson Welles. Might want to fix the title (unless I’m missing a joke).
Blackshirts and reds by Parenti is a good starting lefty book, leans ML. Check out Nagarjuna’s comment for better anarchist recs.
And here’s just a list of books that I’ve read semi-recently that could spark interest.
Black Liberation and Socialism by Frank Chapman
Counter-revolution of 1776,
Debt by Michael Graeber,
Colonialism by Aime Cesaire,
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
The CIA as organized crime
Jakarta Method