Money lenders? In my temple? It's more likely than you think!
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U sure about the hammer and sickle??
In the sense of its original meaning, perhaps: solidarity of the proletariat.
In the Stalinist sense, certainly not.
It’s sad to imagine a world where Stalin wasn’t forced by the politburo to stay as the leader for years and years during a time of total war, and he just stayed as a lowly official in a far away province to the east like he wanted, so he could just write his poems… what could have been.
We would remember “Stalin, the lonely poet from Siberia”.
You say that. But millions more people would have been alive to remember it. That doesn't seem all that sad. He wasn't a very good leader. So I'm going to assume he was a much better poet.
Considering the Nazis would’ve won WW2 if it wasn’t for big spoon man… idk. I think a lot more people would’ve died man.
That's possible. But pure speculation. His appointment of Trophim Lysinko however, did directly help kill millions of Chinese and Russian citizens. That's a fact.
Had Lenin been really smart and a good judge of character. Things could have turned out far better. I think Lenin had good intentions. But was a short sighted, bloodthirsty ideologue. Stalin was worse. Lenin so eager to institute Marx's communism that he violated the very spirit of it. Perverting it. Stalin and those after him coasting drunk on power and oppression. As everything fell apart.
I truly think we should pursue to achieve something like the communism Karl Marx envisioned. The people like Lenin and Stalin unfortunately set that ideal back a century or more. Only now the better part of a century later with capitalism reaching it's failure state again. Are people even ready to consider it again. The fact that we have teenagers like yourself unironically worshiping the guys and refusing to recognize their failings. You all are just as bad as a teenagers who worship capitalism but try to claim they're somehow libertarian.
It’s not only possible, it’s a historical fact. And it’s completely ahistorical (no serious academic agrees with you here) that the famines in the USSR and China were man-made. In fact, they were the last famines there, after centuries and centuries of EXTREME famines frequently happening. And also, at the same time as those last famines, there were vast famines in central and southern Europe, all over Asia etc. Are the USSR and China responsible for those as well?
The way you talk about Lenin and Stalin is very similar to Khrushchev and the anti-Stalinist Soviets. They were anti-communists that started the fall of the USSR.
They started by demonising Stalin first, initially calling him heartless and ruthless, then a tyrant. They tried attacking Lenin but just like you it was harder to make him out to be straight up a villain.
I don’t love Stalin, or Lenin, Mao, Che, Allende, Marx, Jesus, no figure. I just try to find the actual truth in history, knowing that’s ultimately impossible, through the muck of propaganda.
Stalin was the most popular politician of his time. FDR said he was the most honourable man he ever met. Hitler said he wouldn’t dare execute Stalin if he captured him, as he was one of best leader in Europes history. Stalin didn’t correspond his feelings, and famously wanted all Nazi political and military leadership executed. This was thwarted by the Hughes brothers of the early OSS and later CIA, who since the middle of WW2 wanted a “single sided peace” with the Nazis, as they were themselves Nazis. They saved many Nazis officials from being executed at Nuremberg and earlier, and put them to work in the early NATO and West German nascent apparatus.
Stalin literally took a feudal society and made it the most powerful military in Europe, and later the second biggest industrial power in the world, in a couple of decades.
And through it he asked CONSTANTLY to be let go. He was made the leader by the politburo and the party. Actually against Lenin’s wishes. Stalin used this fact and asked to have Lenin’s wished respected more than once asking to be let go from his position. He was the most opposed to having a leadership position at the politburo, and thought the original spirit of the organization was to be democratic and decentralized.
The CIA released documents saying they didn’t believe he was a dictator, and that the USSR was much more democratic than the media and state propaganda of the west made it seem to be.
This is all easily found online. I hope you read a bit about it before answering.
It’s not only possible, it’s a historical fact. And it’s completely ahistorical (no serious academic agrees with you here) that the famines in the USSR and China were man-made.
I never claimed that. You're arguing strawmen. There was a global famine going on at the time. The US with it's dust bowl. Etc. Trophim Lysinko didn't make the famine. He made it worse. You talk about reading and understanding history. Yet you hypocritically refuse to do so yourself. Then you expect people to take you seriously. Seriously. Take your own advice.
Whether or not Stalin wanted to leave. Does not make him a good leader. The fact that some politburo could keep him as leader against his wishes screams bad leader. Whether or not good things were accomplished in spite of his and the parties brutal social oppression. Does not make him a good leader. You know, Hitler sort of helped expand Germany's power to its peak. Was he a good leader, good guy? That dude. Andrew Jackson really expanded the United States and helped to create a prosperity for a lot of Americans. Good guy, good leader? I'm just trying to test out and see how much whitewashing you would consider too much whitewashing.
And That's great about them not having any more famine. I guess the rest of the world owes him a lot of thanks for personally doing that. Because after the mid 20th century the rest of the world outside of Africa really never experienced mass famine like that again.
Hey that industrialization thing too. Isn't it kind of odd that America and most other western powers all industrialized heavily at the same time too? It's almost like there was something going on apart from Stalin around the world that made it happen. And that it wasn't tied to him specifically in any way.
And in the end if he was such a good leader. Why 40 50 years on at the dissolution of communism. Did all the countries they forcefully annexed against their will immediately tear down most the statues to him? Seems like they didn't think he was that great. But I realize you have to whitewash.
I mean you just strawmanned too. I never said famines never happened anywhere… I obviously meant in the USSR and China, as we were speaking about those places.
And ok, we do agree then. The famines were natural but some policies made them worse. But we can’t deny some policies made them better, and indeed made famines in those places never happen again. Like machinization and collectivization. But yeah, Lysenko sucked. It was a huge mistake to allow him that much power.
And no. You can’t compare what Hitler or Andrew Jackson did to Stalin. Hitler inherited a failing industrial super power. Andrew Jackson expanded west? Not sure the point here.
And the world was heavily industrialising at the same time and rate as the USSR. The US, Germany, France, the UK all industrialised during a span of 100 years or more mostly during peacetime. The USSR industrialised MORE in a couple of decades under existential war.
And to say: look all the countries that were communist now hate Stalin! - is not the argument you think it is. It’s just a testament to the power of propaganda in the those countries since the end of the USSR, but also the power of counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries to maintain and create narratives within communist experiments even with “oppression”.
I think you’d find the history of anti-communists, monarchists and fascists in the USSR, in Russia and Ukraine for example, pretty interesting. How they hid for a few decades, but eventually started to earn space and political power due to anti-Stalinists (after Khrushchev but specially under Gorbachev).
Yeahhhh a plain red flag or the lib-soc red and black would probably fit better. Jesus doesn't seem like he was the statist type.
Or maybe he was, but the ghost writers of the Bible got the vibe wrong. It is also possible that Aliens were involved, but that historical docu-series won’t air until later tonight.
The idea that folks like the Council of Rome would err away from authoritarianism seems... unlikely.
Render unto Caesar?
After lengthy consideration, we've decided to defederate from jesusofnazare.th
lol
Black/Red is better
I didn't make the image, just sharing the good news
what's wrong about the hammer and sickle?
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
"WHEN THEY PASS THE PLATE NEXT TIME, YOU PUT SOMETHING IN"
Don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
In the name of Hammer, the Sun, and the Holy Sickle. It's also kind of a cross.
A black communist Jesus?! This is so accurate
Not black. Given the time and place most experts would say Jesus was brown or olive skinned.
Jesus was a radical that the authorities were so worried about they had him killed.
When a man asked Jesus what he had to do to get eternal life, after running through the normal commandments (don't murder, don't steal, etc) the guy said he did all those things, and then Jesus replied:
"One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” (Mark 10:21)
The guy was disappointed and left. Then Jesus said,
"it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24)
In James he said:
"Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." (James 2:15-16)
Jesus tells a parable in Luke where a rich man in hell sees a poor guy in heaven and is begging for just a tiny taste of water: Luke 16:19-31
In Acts the early church is described as sharing possessions communally:
"All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. (Acts 4:32-35)
None of this is an endorsement of Christianity, I'm an atheist, but was raised religious.
This is amazing!
More like a SocDem...