cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4870654
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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Reading Losurdo’s Stalin book has opened my eyes to just how horrific things were for black folks from the end of Reconstruction to the start of WWII in particular.
What's the context in which he brings that up?
Book was translated and published recently i think
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.
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).
And also that period lasted decades!!! reconstruction was give or take a dozen years
Would you recommend any other Stalin reading as essential before Losurdo's take?
I haven't read much in detail about Stalin to be honest, but I am wary of starting reading about him with a polemic (but then, all history is polemic - so, idk).
I actually expected it to be a lot more of a polemic than it was tbh
I genuinely think it's better to read that one first. It was revelatory for me.
Otherwise, Getty's Origins of the Great Purges or Furr's Khrushchev Lied.
sure is a good thing we're in the nice green "progress" part of the timeline instead of the scary red or yellow parts. everything is a-ok 
American progressives and not understanding meaning of the word "progress", very iconic duo.
Thank your Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and Joe Biden for officially ending racism
Abraham Lincoln officially ended racism when he challenged the CEO of racism to a wrestling match in the year 1346
Seeing this as a black person in America invokes a~~n ir~~rational amount of anger within me.
Jesus Christ, what tone deaf motherfucker thought this shit up?
I think basically any liberal would make this graphic
No I’m sure it’s a rational amount…
'The Personal Finance Club'
I'm sure they have the solution to every black persons' problems, a masterclass in becoming a multimillionaire!
Missing a red bar from about 1980 to the present labeled “the reaction”
That started in 1865
1968, Nixon’s election was the reaction.
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Southern California found that racial segregation in the country’s 100 biggest school districts, which serve the most students of color, has increased by 64 percent since 1988. Economic segregation, or the division between students who receive free or reduced lunch and those who do not, increased by 50 percent since 1991.
Wow that sure is some nice progress you got there
Can you please link the source?
It's from Vox https://www.vox.com/24156492/school-segregation-increasing-brown-board-of-educat
The actual study was released by the Universities as an interactive map https://edopportunity.org/segregation/explorer/
School busing for the purposes of desegregating school districts was something that developed in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement; and white people fucking hated it. They rioted all over but especially in places like Boston. In other parts of the country private evangelical schools (not explicitly segregated but de facto, as these were and still are often nearly 100% white) exploded in popularity.
The courts were able to keep these desegregation programs in place through the 70s and 80s, but the white folks were relentless in trying to get them overturned and by the time you get into the 90s, they had been pretty successful in rolling back this one meager form of progress.
2020-Present: The president is a segregationist, but that doesn't matter because Trump exists.
Real question from someone outside US. Why does the "segregation" is not "apartheid"?
Apartheid is an internationally recognized crime against humanity and America never admits to its own crimes against humanity.
It’s only apartheid if it’s from South Africa, otherwise it’s sparkling segregation.
Huh.....I.....never thought of that; actually yeah, this was apartheid. Miscegenation laws in the mix there too.
Not Dutch enough
1964-1970 should say progress. Then 1970-2024 should say police wage war against being black in a city.
This scaling cannot be right
Unfortunately, it is. I didn't spent more than a minute so it's not pixel perfect, but the scale looks correct!
Weird. I've never had correct scaling fail the vibes check this badly.
in what way? full scale is over 400 years, 1619 to 1865 is almost 250 of that, 1865 to 1964 is 99 of that, and 1964 to 2024 is 60 of that