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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 months ago

What's the context in which he brings that up?

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Book was translated and published recently i think

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 months ago

Yep. The PDF of it is free here: https://www.iskrabooks.org/stalin-history-and-critique

It was done in part by the guy from the Guerilla History podcast.

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

The book is largely taking claims / slander aimed at the Stalin-era Soviet Union and showing how it was largely untrue but also how things were way worse in the West. I know in one section he brings up how the prison system in the US South in the period I mentioned was pretty much just what anti-communists think the gulags were (and of course mostly it was black men who suffered). I don’t recall the exact context in which Losurdo brings up lynchings, though. I remember the focus was on how white society in the south wholly participated in it, not like it was just isolated incidents of just a few participants (lynchings were advertised in the newspapers in advance and often hundreds or thousands of people would show up).

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