politics and old discontents
And of course *my* natural inclination is to accuse others of anti-semitism, as you don’t hear about the Holodomor without Kaganovich’s ethnicity being screamed at you; but Trotsky was instrumental in putting down these earlier uprisings. Which is why I think here it’s the right wing bias of downplaying leftists plus the left wing lionizations of both Lenin and Trotsky.
politics and old discontents
So today I found out about the Tambov Revolution and associated left wing uprisings (other than the Makhnovists whom I’d already known about) against the Soviet government under *Lenin*.
These were very much tied to murderous grain collection policies. And yet I’ve heard of the Holodomor, not these. Are we getting a filtered view of things, as the chief villains of the Holodomor are already established as bad guys, and their victims had no socialist/anarchist ties?
Will not mimic cutting downward at footsoldiers while listening to Poledouris’ “Riders of Doom.” #montjoie
there are times when I can't easily step out of the depression and self hate, yet not really sunk into it, where it's just *annoying* to be walking around as this bundle of apparently easily pressed issues.
there are similarly times when I wish my intestines worked flawlessly.
This morning, so far, has been a combination of both.
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American elections are like shopping for pants which aren’t comfortable. If you’re lucky you’re paying something which merely doesn’t fit because it’s intended for someone else.
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Okay SO in the middle of this my Rep, who was pushing for limiting presidential warmaking, has grave misgivings about the Corker-Kaine AUMF. Okay fair; it’s basically no change at all.
Wait. Tim Kaine? Who I was obligated to vote for as veep candidate, when the Dems decided they weren’t moving left, that Tim Kaine? Yep.
Cue milspec standard rant about Dems in general and specifically how voting Clinton/Kaine in 2016 was as much a distasteful chore as cleaning a cat box, only less useful.
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