/lit/ - Literature

>>15065
>The foul disease of communism has been responsible for at very least 100 million human deaths in the last hundred years.

Shame it wasn't more.

Is all ideology just as function for human meaning, or does religion stand out as super-ideology?

Russell Brand is bad for the left.
>not saying anything new
>not contributing anything meaningful to the discourse
>making a big show for the sake of his own fame
>using his fame to make himself seem like he can do something
>using the fact that he's a comedian and a drug addict as an excuse not to actually go into politics
>clearly unwilling to actually give up his money, possessions, etc. and actually start or fight in a revolution
>got made a fool of on live Britbong TV by Nigel Farage
>rich but complains about the rich
He's literally a caricature of what people don't like about the modern Left.
People should listen to Zizek instead of this moron.

>>5713341
>>5713356
>muh 20 billion billion million trillion jillion quillion cazatillion dead

Keep dreaming.

>>5598543
Because people bought the idea that Stalin was very very evil and the USSR a dystopia.

>>5525663
>>5525672

>Lenin just
>Trotsky wanted
>Stalin implemented
>Mao realized
>Muh trillions and bajillions! They hid the bodies on the moon, that's why you can't find them!
>All peasants are secretly fascist!!!

>Reactionaries trying to into history

>>5047819
>2014
>not being a stalinist

Whats wrong with you?

>>4741518
>STILL hasn't read Hinton
>STILL huffing the fumes of the red scare's deliberate lies about "billions of ded by gommunism"

But it doesn't matter. Even the most hyperbolic "body count" for "communism" is a drop in the fucking bucket against the numbers capitalism pulls in.

>>4629858
did you just seriously link me to a retarded bourgeois fuck?

>>4629863
>So Bolshevism is sort of shit no matter how you look at it.
I am not a fan of Leninism, myself, but I would like to point out that you haven't actually proven your point here.

>centrally planning an economy is bad
but yet, it worked so very well in both the USSR and China.
>inb4 the bourgeois and reactionary propaganda starts, like 'muh 60 gorillian'

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>>4208590
Do you believe everything your "history" books say?

>>4067945
>Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate is also very useful. Perhaps read that first before any of the other stuff here. As for marxist political stuff, just read any textbook on economics, specially the discussion of how well markets work vs. non-markets. Perhaps read a history of the Soviet union or communism in general to learn about all the famines that ideology caused. The number of casualties are in the millions just due to hunger alone.

You've literally been lied to. You need to read Hinton's Through a Glass Darkly. Unlike the people that fabricated the numbers, Hinton lived and worked with China's revolutionized commoners and provides damning evidence and arguments against the popular Western capitalist mythology about China during Mao's time.

>>3908707
Here is the difference. The death tolls of Nazi germany have numerous amounts of documentation behind them, and metric fucktonnes of evidence behind them.

Most of the "Communist death tolls" are actually literally impossible statistically and demographically and are based on almost no evidence what so ever. For example the Communist purges in the USSR? How many dead, 5 million? 50 million? 100 million? Nope, actually 700,000 according to what secret NKVD documents we have that were broken into during the clusterfuck of the 90s. This is a horrendous number in my opinion and totally unacceptable, but I absolutely hate historical revisionism where they just pull numbers out of their ass to make things even worse, instead of seeing why such deaths occured. (incredibly paranoid post-revolutionary society with cultural norms of knocking off your enemies and historical context of what occurred in the French Revolution that allowed psychopathic nobodies like Napoleon to rise to power)

Yes I hate using this /pol/ image because it is so condescending but it does show how easily the Communist death toll numbers are debunked.

http://weeklybolshevik.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/what-makes-a-famine-is-ideology/

Very decent article into how the Communist death toll numbers are made.

http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward

This one is absolutely brilliant and goes through all the statistics and data we know.

chinastudygroup.net/blogs/eastwindwestwind/files/2009/08/patnaik-famine-measuring.pdf

This one is actually a report about food crisis in India, but also covers the great leap forward and again, goes through statistics (while comparing them to India)