You mean paid?
Posted on 01/01/2018 12:31:58 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Yes. Read Communism, by Richard Pipes.
Good brief summary, all in one post.
China is the very definition of fascist. One party, police state, nationalist, private ownership under state directive.
I’m also plowing my way through two histories of the Russian/Soviet revolution(s). What a time of ruined lives.
One thing I might mention for some others is that socialism, with its ends of governments existing for social progress for the populations, came first as a concept. The Marx and Engels task was to theorize a cause-effect theology to excuse an economic system that we often confuse with the purpose.
The purpose is a perfect society. Quite mad really.
“an annual history lesson can hopefully convince them otherwise.”
Nope. As Rush says, they think it just wasn’t ‘done right’.
The USSR was Russia and fourteen other “republics”; today Russia has lost those territories and populations. It is much smaller than the USSR; I suspect because Russia dominated that, many Russians probably pine for it. Our own young people today embrace policies that those who were young in the 1970s know as disastrous; I guess each generation has to learn on its own when the media and education cartel bury history.
And Hitliary sighs, "If only ..."
A few years ago I was researching Sabina Spielrein, a young Jewish prodigy of both Freud, Bleuler and Jung. She had an intimate relationship with Jung during 1908–1910. She was a Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (often called the Russian Mother of Psychoanalysis) and also trained the famous Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget.
Her family was strictly Jewish, strongly encouraged by her rabbi grandfather and great-grandfather.
In 1923, she decided to travel from Geneva to Moscow to support the development of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis in Russia already had a turbulent history but its influence was strongest between 1921 and 1923.
She then became involved with an ambitious new project in children’s learning known as the “Detski Dom” Psychoanalytic Orphanage–Laboratory (also known as the “White House.” in Moscow.)
The school was only an orphanage in name: the school had children from prominent Bolsheviks (including Joseph Stalin, whose son Vasily Stalin was enrolled as well). Use of discipline was avoided and children were allowed maximum freedom of movement. Sexual exploration and curiosity was also permitted. Spielrein’s involvement included supervision of the teachers. The school had to close in 1926, in the wake of accusations of experiments to stimulate the children’s sexuality prematurely. The accusations were possibly made in response to attempts by Leon Trotsky to proletarianize the school’s intake. At that time Spielrein moved from Moscow back to Rostov-on-Don where she had been born in 1885.
With the advent of Stalin’s tyrannical rule and Jewish persecution in the 1930s, Spielrein’s three Jewish brothers living in Moscow were all killed.
In August 11-14, 1942, after the Nazis took Rostov-on-Don, Spielrein and her two daughters, aged 29 and 16, as Jews were shot dead by an SS death squad, along with 27,000 mostly Russian Jewish victims from the city. This is regarded as the worst Holocaust atrocity in Russia.
Due to the timeline overlap I needed to understand Russian history to get the political environmental framework of her life. This planet sure has an interesting human political development.
I had only a modest knowledge of renaissance Italian history.
I read a good recent history of the Borgias and what is showed me of the specifics of that era make me again feel that the entire age was nothing but an indulgence and its importance a great exaggeration.
How many have muzzies killed?
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How many have muzzies killed?
Apparently not you, yet.
Sorry sometimes go awry, on my phone.
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When you really analyze the goals of the Democrat Party, it becomes clear that it’s almost exactly the same as the Soviet Communist Party under Stalin. Liberals in the this country HATED Gorbachev for moving away from Stalinist principles. To this day, Stalin is a hero to liberals.
... I hear you.
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