On Europe
Marx; Lenin; Stalin. If you've been putting it off, you should get to reading em. They're smart folks and they understood how the world works. Listen to what they have to say, and learn from their experiences.
Europe.
It is difficult for me to imagine what ‘personal liberty’ is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
That's Joseph Stalin for ya. That's a personal favorite quote. He was a man who worked hard, during trying times, to provide the best possible for the people of the world.
TODO: links for all
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Marx
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Lenin
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Stalin
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How history works, how nature is, what society's current iteration entails (ie. Marxism):
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Three Sources and Component Parts
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diamat
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Capital - yeah ok, this is the one I haven't read. getting there.
Italy
TODO: Antonio Gramsci TODO: Domenico Losurdo
Soviet History
the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 accelerated NATOs aggressive expansion east.
From Armani (@historyoarmani2) on this thread:
1992: NATO begins to move into Adriatic Sea. By 1993 NATO votes to take military action.
1994: NATO bombs Bosnia and Herzegovina
1995: NATO bombs Bosnia and Herzegovina (again)
Between ‘95 and ‘98, NATO began shifting its focus to the Middle East.
1999: Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic become NATO members
1999: NATO bombs Albanian refugees near Gjakova. 73 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed. 16 were children.
1999: NATO bombs Yugoslavia, killing over 600 civilians.
After these bombings, countries realized it was time to join the North Atlantic alliance or die.
By 2001 NATO forced North Macedonian UÇK fighters to disarm and initiated Article 5 which led to the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
For the next decade NATO ravaged the Middle East, funding terror groups and destabilizing an entire region.
2011- NATO orders a No-Fly Zone over Libya which eventually leads to Gaddafis assassination and the complete destruction of Libya.
By 2014, NATO turned back towards Eastern Europe as China and Russia began aligning themselves economically and militarily.
Since the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO has been on a vicious campaign to acquire the globe under a veil of western influence and domination.
But somehow the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has convinced y’all it stands for peace.
TODO: Walter Rodney russian rev
Oh wow and actually, Walter Rodney is the perfect segue into Africa
index tags: Communists, Reading List, Europe, Germany, Russia, Italy, Georgia, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Antonio Gramsci, Domenico Losurdo, Soviet History, The illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 accelerated NATOs aggressive expansion east, NATO, @historyoarmani2
category tags: World History