It is astounding, though unfortunately not surprising. Philip Dick, I mean Bump, works for the Washington Toast, I mean Post; which is owned and kept alive by democrat camp billionaire Jeff Bezos (speaking of Dicks); who through Amazon Web Services is contracted to provide outsourced host servers to the federal government, including the CIA, hmm, how about that. So from Bump on up it’s a chain of government shills whoring out their rag (newspaper) as an organ for establishment propaganda. Bump is just an old boxing gym punching bag taking shots from real journalists for his masters in the IC. For some reason, I have a hankering to reread “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
You should (read him). You really should. Whether you agree at all with communism, Bolshevism, etc., or not. Guy was a /force majeure/ in Soviet history, extremely intelligent and not malignant (that I can see) like Stalin. Worth knowing about.
The White Pill (by Michael Malice) is a unique, offbeat but very well-researched look at the rise and fall of the USSR, intertwined with the American anarchist movement of the early 20th century. I found it fascinating.
Actually he was pretty malignant, but no doubt brilliant, as was Trotsky. Stalin was brilliant, but not as well-educated like those two, in a even more malignant way. From what I read, what really set Lenin off was when they hung is brother for being part of a Tsar assassination plot.
Anyway, too much to read, and Lenin doesn’t get to my priority level. Das Kapital was enough for me.
If you're going to read anything about that history, read about Leon Trotsky. I'm re-reading the first of Isaac Deutscher's meticulously researched and written "Prophet" series (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast). I consider myself something of a Trotskyist; of course we'll never know, but I believe that history--world history--may have turned out very much differently had Trotsky become the head of state instead of Stalin (as Lenin wished in his testament).
Regarding the whole thing of they (both Lenin & Trotsky) being ruthless bastards: that's a misreading of the history. Here's the thing: if you foment a revolution, as they did, AND if your responsibility is for that revolution to succeed, to bear the fruits that you desperately wish it to (and those fruits are NOT your ascension to power but the transformation of the society), then it's a given that PEOPLE MUST DIE. People will need to be killed. There's no getting around that. Remember that what happened immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution was a bloody civil war that nearly destroyed the country.
One doesn't play with revolutions--real revolutions, not pretend storming of legislatures--without being prepared to see it through to the bloody end. Otherwise there's no point in even thinking about a revolution.
Those Isaac Deutscher books on Trotsky were quite good. They got the pick axe he was killed with in the KGB museum, in the Lubyanka, downtown Moscow. Interesting little museum, to say the least!
Because he's part of the access part of access journalism. He's got access to the right people when needed by the paper. He has the access because the people know already how he'll write about them. You want a quote/interview with certain powerful people? You have to get access first, and access to those powerful only goes through certain people. This is how corruption occurs, not with any big bang but agreeing to play by those rules because "that's the only way"
It’s astounding that people like Bump still have jobs.
It is? What's astounding is how many people DON'T have jobs because they refuse to lie for a living.
Maybe that is 818,000 jobs Labor got rid of last week.
It is astounding, though unfortunately not surprising. Philip Dick, I mean Bump, works for the Washington Toast, I mean Post; which is owned and kept alive by democrat camp billionaire Jeff Bezos (speaking of Dicks); who through Amazon Web Services is contracted to provide outsourced host servers to the federal government, including the CIA, hmm, how about that. So from Bump on up it’s a chain of government shills whoring out their rag (newspaper) as an organ for establishment propaganda. Bump is just an old boxing gym punching bag taking shots from real journalists for his masters in the IC. For some reason, I have a hankering to reread “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Useful idiots, as Lenin allegedly said. Haven’t read enough Lenin to say for sure, and don’t plan to , either.
It's about to become required, or rather rescripted to fit the new more morally just America.
You should (read him). You really should. Whether you agree at all with communism, Bolshevism, etc., or not. Guy was a /force majeure/ in Soviet history, extremely intelligent and not malignant (that I can see) like Stalin. Worth knowing about.
According to The White Pill, Lenin was every bit as murderous as Stalin, just more mentally stable.
Not familiar with that, but it sounds to be ideologically biased. Maybe still worth reading?
The White Pill (by Michael Malice) is a unique, offbeat but very well-researched look at the rise and fall of the USSR, intertwined with the American anarchist movement of the early 20th century. I found it fascinating.
Actually he was pretty malignant, but no doubt brilliant, as was Trotsky. Stalin was brilliant, but not as well-educated like those two, in a even more malignant way. From what I read, what really set Lenin off was when they hung is brother for being part of a Tsar assassination plot.
Anyway, too much to read, and Lenin doesn’t get to my priority level. Das Kapital was enough for me.
If you're going to read anything about that history, read about Leon Trotsky. I'm re-reading the first of Isaac Deutscher's meticulously researched and written "Prophet" series (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast). I consider myself something of a Trotskyist; of course we'll never know, but I believe that history--world history--may have turned out very much differently had Trotsky become the head of state instead of Stalin (as Lenin wished in his testament).
Regarding the whole thing of they (both Lenin & Trotsky) being ruthless bastards: that's a misreading of the history. Here's the thing: if you foment a revolution, as they did, AND if your responsibility is for that revolution to succeed, to bear the fruits that you desperately wish it to (and those fruits are NOT your ascension to power but the transformation of the society), then it's a given that PEOPLE MUST DIE. People will need to be killed. There's no getting around that. Remember that what happened immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution was a bloody civil war that nearly destroyed the country.
One doesn't play with revolutions--real revolutions, not pretend storming of legislatures--without being prepared to see it through to the bloody end. Otherwise there's no point in even thinking about a revolution.
Those Isaac Deutscher books on Trotsky were quite good. They got the pick axe he was killed with in the KGB museum, in the Lubyanka, downtown Moscow. Interesting little museum, to say the least!
Because he's part of the access part of access journalism. He's got access to the right people when needed by the paper. He has the access because the people know already how he'll write about them. You want a quote/interview with certain powerful people? You have to get access first, and access to those powerful only goes through certain people. This is how corruption occurs, not with any big bang but agreeing to play by those rules because "that's the only way"