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    1 year ago

    “Or some other other solution to be determined by the state in question”

    Gulags, generally speaking

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      I literally said “liquidating you as a class” as a possible retaliation. “Gulags” is not a gotcha, if you hoard or destroy food during a famine you are committing murder and you need to be stopped for the good of society.

      By the way, the US prison population today is higher than the Gulag population of the entire Soviet Union at its peak. I’d sure as hell rather see gulags full of reactionaries and food-burners than full of drug users and the chronically unemployed. I’m curious, why do you prefer the latter?

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        By the way, the US prison population today is higher than the Gulag population of the entire Soviet Union at its peak.

        Well being worked to death and/or being strait up shot tends to keep those numbers down. And how many of those “hoarders” were quite literally starving but they had a tiny bit on hand? And how many more were in there for “anti-soviet behavior” instead of anything related to hoarding or destroying food.

        “Gulags” is not a gotcha

        Gulags, concentration camps and the like are definitely a “gotcha” as much as a “gatcha” can exist.

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        1 year ago

        Tankie apologetics 101:

        1. Every victim of Bolshevik aggression deserved it
        2. What about America?
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          1 year ago

          it blows my mind the lengths that online rightists will go to to defend literally burning food during a famine. Why?

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      Yes, people who burn food during a famine should be rehabilitated, and prisons were the method (that doesn’t work) that people thought was effective to that end at the time.

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        Yes, people who burn food during a famine should be rehabilitated

        And what of people who steal food during a famine, like the bolsheviks?

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          You’re right, it’s so fucked up that Stalin stole all those poor Kulaks’ grain and put it in a big swimming pool so that he and his cabinet could swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck.

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            Are there Kulaks in the room with you right now?

            The soviets took enough grain from Ukrainian peasants to induce widespread hunger and death. But let’s blame 1% of the peasantry who had already liquidated as a class.

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          People should steal food from hoarders to redistribute it to starving peasants actually.

          If youre talking about grain quotas they stopped taking grain out of the region and started importing food when they realized there was a famine.

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            People should steal food from hoarders to redistribute it to starving peasants actually.

            I agree, but the quota on kulak liquidation led to starving peasants being targeted.

            If youre talking about grain quotas they stopped taking grain out of the region and started importing food when they realized there was a famine.

            After millions of people had already starved to death. A minor but necessary bump in the road toward industrialization, I’m sure.

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              After millions of people had already starved to death. A minor but necessary bump in the road toward industrialization, I’m sure.

              It wasn’t necessary. They could have foreseen the need for an independent commission to verify the numbers that local officials were reporting. They could have cracked down harder on sabotage of planting and harvesting and the mass slaughter of livestock by kulaks.

              Industrialization was necessary. If they didn’t push hard for industrialization we might all be speaking German right now. They cut it close to the wire and the mistakes that they made resulted in mass suffering. But there were no more famines with the exception of post ww2 after that famine, in an area that previously frequently had famines, because collectivization worked once the kinks were worked out.

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                Rapid industrialization at the cost of millions of lives was only a necessity because Stalin insisted on Socialism in One Country.

                Had proletariat revolutions not failed elsewhere, especially Western Europe, there would be no need for such a haphazard and reckless transition.

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                  Okay but how was the soviet union to create a global proletarian revolution? They had to work with what they had.