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*Was a model because of rapid growth in face of poverty and immense opposition. More or less terrified capitalists in those countries where workers' movements were strong, may even have compelled them to make more concessions specifically because of the fear of Soviet influence.
*Was a model because of rapid growth in face of poverty and immense opposition. More or less terrified capitalists in those countries where workers' movements were strong, may even have compelled them to make more concessions specifically because of the fear of Soviet influence.
*Characterized by forced military expenditures against Nazi Germany and NATO. Mikhail Kalashnikov: "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agricultural equipment."
*Characterized by forced military expenditures against Nazi Germany and NATO. Mikhail Kalashnikov: "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agricultural equipment."
**'''''Added''' Kalashnikov quote here: [[Mikhail Kalashnikov]]'' – [[User:Harrystein|Harrystein]] ([[User talk:Harrystein|talk]]) 21:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
*Revolutionary Soviet names like Mel/Mels/Vil
*Revolutionary Soviet names like Mel/Mels/Vil
*Siberian tribes didn't know there was a Russian Revolution until the end of the USSR
*Siberian tribes didn't know there was a Russian Revolution until the end of the USSR
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*Denied HIV til '87
*Denied HIV til '87
*Cognitive issues which became pronounced after presidency, people who worked with him noted he made a lot of stories up
*Cognitive issues which became pronounced after presidency, people who worked with him noted he made a lot of stories up
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I am a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist, principally Maoist, from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. I am a student of history, philosophy, and other social sciences. I have been an editor on Revolupedia since its founding in June 2024 and enjoy contributing to it into the present day.

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USSR

  • Was a model because of rapid growth in face of poverty and immense opposition. More or less terrified capitalists in those countries where workers' movements were strong, may even have compelled them to make more concessions specifically because of the fear of Soviet influence.
  • Characterized by forced military expenditures against Nazi Germany and NATO. Mikhail Kalashnikov: "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agricultural equipment."
  • Revolutionary Soviet names like Mel/Mels/Vil
  • Siberian tribes didn't know there was a Russian Revolution until the end of the USSR
  • US relations: US did not recognize the USSR until 1933, fighting Soviet influence was an integral part of the FBI, the US invaded the USSR in the civil war
  • CIA on Stalin's power
  • Address the claim that Lenin's views were the minority, he manipulated his way to the top, promised cooperation with other socialists but betrayed them and was unnecessarily harsh, doing things like killing intellectuals and clergy
  • Economy: Blackshirts and Reds: "Managers were little inclined … privilege of getting paid less." Other books and articles that bring up problems economies like that of the Soviets had include Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited and János Kornai's The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism (although these, like most others, are from non-Marxist authors.)
  • KGB's fake KKK letters
  • Democracy: Mick Costello's Workers' Participation in the Soviet Union, Pat Sloan's Soviet Democracy, or the USSR Academy of Sciences' The Soviet Form of Popular Government
  • Other very important and worthwhile works include Albert Szymanski's Human Rights in the Soviet Union and Is the Red Flag Flying?, Cecilia Bobrovskaya's Rank-and-File Bolshevik, or maybe even Beatrice Webb's Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation? if you're okay with something extremely long, if you want a variety of looks at the USSR's form of democracy and the policies it developed for the working class.

Russia

  • Doesn't want to join the EU because it would get subjugated to Germany and France, has so many resources that it's instead worth it to stand on its own and not bow before other powers and become their satellite? Yeltsin however tried to join
  • Yeltsin 6 months after electoral victory had 3% popularity, terrible ratings continued afterwards
  • Putin praises Solzhenitsyn, he's taught in Russian schools
  • No worker protections
  • Infiltrates opposition and kills/imprisons leaders
  • Declining infrastructure
  • Wages decreased when adjusted for inflation
  • Life expectancy stagnated
  • Election fraud, elections are more so of a gauge of how much people accept Putin's actions
  • KPRF is weak, doesn't do anything and doesn't know Marxism; CPCR is hardline
  • NYT 81 cases of election interference in RU by US
  • https://youtube.com/watch?v=tO7HXrhHOS8 Yeltsin faked deficits to create crisis, Comrade Deficit
  • US worked with Black October porkies to pacify communist support after ban of CPSU by allowing Yeltsin to cheat and win
  • Budapest memorandum broken with the invasion of Crimea
  • https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/hm2-the-economics-of-modern-imperialism/ addresses whether Russia is imperialist
    • Key lines: "In our work, we used the IMF data ...", "The G8-plus countries own the ..."
  • Funds far-right parties
  • Putin 1994: political violence is criminal if aimed at market economy, pinochet-style dictatorship remark
  • Anatoly Chubais: oligarch who contributed immensely to making Putin and modern Russia
  • Clip: "So you've been snorting since you were 8" [1]. Documentary "The Children of Leningradsky"
  • Bush said he saw good in Putin's soul
  • https://youtu.be/37ySwMV4ezo Russia didn't hack US 2016 elections. Aaron Nate reported a lot on this subject
  • Blackshirts and Reds: "In late 1993, facing strong popular resistance to his harsh ..."

Russia Today

  • Fills gaping hole left by corporate media, uplifted marginalized voices from across political spectrum for better or worse that revealed the existing, deep divisions and manipulation in American society. Prominent antiwar dissidents given a platform the media didn't, along with third-party candidates, anti-capitalists.
  • Didn't always promote Russian narrative, Abby Martin voiced opposition to Crimea annexation, there was a rather hands off attitude, Abby for example continued work a year after her anti-annexation comments, left because of personal differences
  • MSNBC removed Phil Donahue who had high ratings because of his anti-war stance, Jesse Ventura signed a deal with MSNBC but they paid severance money when they realized he was going to be antiwar
  • Alan Kurdi's aunt went on MSNBC, never invited again for criticizing US funneling of weapons, her narrative was not convenient

United Kingdom

Finland

  • 1990s depression was used to rollback welfare state
  • https://soihtu.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/tyolaiset-ja-talvisodan-henki/ "Orwell reports the same story making the rounds among the republicans during the Spanish Civil War and dismissed it as wishful thinking. It sounds unlikely that anyone could have organized sabotage on that scale during the few months of the Winter War, especially since Finnish leftists generally saw it as a just war of defense. You only started seeing acts of resistance during the Continuation War, and even that was mild compared to what other resistance movements were doing. If the reports of faulty shells are true, it's probably because Finland's artillery during the Winter War was badly outdated."
  • Perus (right-wing party) infiltrated by Suomen Sisu (ultranationalist association) in early 2020s, they succeeded, its their form of entryism
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Wahlroos quintessential Fennoswede, major capitalist of the Baltics and Nordics and owns lots of property, his father was Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the 70s
  • "Finnish workers set up the Finland–USSR Peace & Friendship Society. Almost 40,000 people joined immediately (soon all the leaders were arrested and the org banned). After the "Continuation war" the most popular party among the war-veterans was the SKDL (Communist led 'People's front' party). In 1945 elections the SKDL was the second largest party (and that's very telling, since Communism was illegal in Finland since early 1920's)."
  • Exaggerated Soviet death count, counted civilians in military: https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/molot1940.htm
  • Arndt Pekurinen: pacifist and conscientious objector who was killed
  • Tampere Workers' Hall, Lenin museum
  • Reporadio
  • Ylilauta: far-right since around 2016, fell in exactly the same manner as 4chan did; the brigading was extremely obvious yet Sopsy did nothing. Possibly a sympathizer, because he did host MV-lehti on the same server as ylilauta. The popularity [of this site within Finland] can be explained by a small domestic culture sphere where the kind of publicity stunts that 4chan also did have a larger impact. Sopsy saw the site as a business from the start and capitulated on the notoriety ruthlessly in order to grow it. High-quality site features like how per thread user IDs are implemented, instead of raw hashes. As a huge minus side, they do have user accounts and there wont be any effort to say make a trip code like feature usable, because that sweet data and user retention via stuff like tags. In that regard ylilauta is more a forum-imageboard hybrid.
  • Left Alliance leadership and the official party line has always been very pro-imperialist. They were not against Finnish troops in Afganistan, but supported it under the guise of "crisis management" or something. They have been hostile towards Cuba and saying the Left should not support Venezuela. Their party newspaper calls Maduro "dicatorial" and says "he should go". And all this has not been 'criticism from the left' but in essence pro-imperialist right wing criticism.

EU

  • Controlled by Germany and France despite small countries getting a disproportional amount of votes
  • Lenin on "A United States of Europe"
  • Macron wants a European army separate from US. This is difficult because US-made systems continue to dominate in prevalence. US wants NATO countries to spend on their own defense, but not have their own defense policy — just buy more US materiel. Aid to Ukraine makes the country dependent on US systems. France now the 3rd biggest arms exporter. Latest geopolitical tensions mostly benefit the US and the sale of F-35s, etc.
  • Brexit was a victory of US-aligned capitalists
  • Gorbachev described the EU as "the new European Soviet"
  • EU exploit proles, steals educated professionals, wrecks local companies in favor of French and German capital
  • East European companies like Dacia were run by French and German companies
  • In the 2000s the EU's leading nations placed tariffs on East European countries, but also tried to dominate their markets with own brands and franchises
  • Has a different trade policy from the US: wants de-dollarization, trade with Russia, Iran, and China (Ostpolitik).

Palestine

  • Palestinians do exist as a people and their culture goes back before the 1948 war
  • Have tried to obtain self-rule from the British multiple times but were refused in favor of Jewish settlers
  • Gaza suffers shortages, blockade, gets electricity for few hours a day because of a Hamas dispute with the Palestinian Authority
  • PLFP: large, Marxist group
  • PLFP spokesman: "The rockets are both a practical and symbolic representation of our resistance to the occupier ..."
  • Opposition was secular until outside group funding for Islamists, Israel created Hamas to divide Palestinians and make them look unsympathetic. West Bank and Gaza now successfully split
  • Israeli official Avner Cohen: "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation."
  • Mandela: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

Human rights

  • Bourgeois rights/parts of the capitalist system are said to be human rights, e.g. right of contract, freedom of capital, donations are free speech (Citizens United, McCutcheon v. FEC), freedom of press (to push their own narrative)
  • Human Rights Campaign says best place to work for LGBTQ+ equality is at places like Raytheon, but also rips at Bernie Sanders for embracing Joe Rogan's endorsement
  • Here's Why You Shouldn't Support "Human Rights" NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
  • Liberal conception of human rights is silly: piracy is theft but hiding money in offshore accounts is okay

Division of labor

  • It is the origin of classes
  • Only possible with surplus in society
  • Humans evolved to form large, complex groups that allow for each individual to specialize in a certain task
  • Accelerated in capitalism; capitalists accumulated plenty of capital that allowed them to set up large workshops and factories where workers were regimented into specialized roles that made it possible to produce things more efficiently, though many jobs became so simple they got replaced with machinery, which were more efficient than humans, who were pushed into new jobs developed in capitalism
  • Completely disappears in socialism because specific jobs are outdone by machinery, e.g. less-developed agriculture work becomes advanced. People then have to engage in holistic jobs; further worn away by socialist education which retrains people according to needs of society or their own inclinations

Stock market/equities trading

  • Marx in a 1864 letter to his uncle Lion Philips: "I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating — partly in American funds, but more especially in English stocks, which are springing up like mushrooms this year (in furtherance of every imaginable and unimaginable joint stock enterprise), are forced up to quite an unreasonable level and then, for the most part, collapse. In this way, I have made over £400 and, now that the complexity of the political situation affords greater scope, I shall begin all over again. It’s a type of operation that makes demands on one’s time, and it’s worth while running some risk in order to relieve the enemy of his money."
  • CNBC show Mad Money host Jim Cramer admits stock market is manipulated and how it's done

Movies

  • Movies about Thanos/Black Panther/etc. have a message that the status quo is flawed but revolution is worse
  • Many Disney movies are reactionary, e.g. The Lion King has a message that is pro-rigid hierarchy/unjust privilege that is never pushed back on, frames Scar's redistribution/desegregation as cartoonishly evil and bad for no explained reason, ends with the restoration of the holy, ordained monarchy where the rain/sun/plants/animals all just suddenly come back. Hyenas live in a ghetto and have a weird accent. "Circle of life" used to justify lion rule over all else on the basis that when the lions die, they will be eaten by other animals in a convoluted way.
  • Film more or less intentionally influences the audience subconsciously; has pretty much an entire industry (marketing)
  • USSR pioneered film: Soviet montage theory, The Snow Queen (1957) was screened internationally and is one of Hayao Miyazaki's favorites, Miyazaki inspired to found Studio Ghibli by Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)

Video games

  • Games often appeal to and reinforce people's lowest impulses, promote simple ideas that appeal to reactionaries like orcs vs. humans, princess rescue, "fighting the infection", fighting invaders, obsessively seeking a high score
  • Highway of Death and Yuri Bezmenov in Call of Duty
  • "Call of Duty is a government psyop: These documents prove it"
  • Game use for military recruitment
  • Gamergate was the prelude to alt right, catapulted Breitbart whose Executive Chair Steve Bannon became Trump campaign strategist and worked in his administration; Gamergate endorsed by InfoWars, Storm Front, the Daily Stormer. Gamergate featured doxxing, countless death threats predicated on false claims, under the cover of ethics in journalism
  • Link to left-wing games

Great man theory

  • Is surface-level and attractive because it's easy to understand, frames history with concrete heroes and villains
  • Used to distort history for use as propaganda, to create a national narrative
  • Stephen Jay Gould: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"
  • Leibniz and Newton came up with calculus independently and almost at the same time, electric light bulb similarly invented by Thomas Edison and Pavel Yablochkov, the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, the law of conservation of energy by Julius Mayer, James Joule, Herman Helmholtz, etc.
  • Generally incorrect but seems to be validated at times: Rome might have fallen without the military leadership of Scipio Africanus, USSR might have fallen if Bakunin took charge. Many aspects of American culture are due to the whims of one John Harvey Kellogg.
  • Individuals of particular merit succeed mostly because of material conditions – Lenin would not have been able to pull off the Russian Revolution a hundred years before he actually did if he lived at that time
  • People like Trump and Musk can only grow massive amounts of wealth if they start with great advantages; frankly their character is likely too poor to produce success if they had to start from little
  • Communist states are said to have cults of personality but people are blind to such cults in their own capitalist societies, where they are very prevalent. National heroes are created and romanticized, even depicted as flawless, like Abraham Lincoln, who massacred natives and gave away their land for white settlement but almost nobody knows, just like how few know of his racist statements, or neglect the role of the broader abolitionist movement in favor of upholding Lincoln.

Bill Gates

  • In 1980 Microsoft scores a big contract thanks largely to Gates' mother being on the same board as the CEO of IBM, probably convincing him to take a risk in her son's company
  • Schemed to take Paul Allen's shares as he was taking a backseat role due to Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Berates employees and proposals often
  • After dot-com bubble his reputation fell, and shifted to focusing on media coverage about himself, creating the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and donating unknown figures that resulted in positive-only coverage
  • The B&MGF effectively privatized multiple international health organizations. It's the top financial contributor aside from US and China to the WHO
  • Huge proponent of lockdowns, possibly using them to buy up land because land value crashed?
  • Buys a lot of land because it makes a good investment when stocks fall and there is financial crisis. Owns more farmland than anyone else
  • Fully controls what products are grown on the land, how much, how it's run, who works there
  • Started meeting Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 officially for global health and other charitable opportunities, even though it was after Epstein's conviction in 2008. Cited as a reason why Melinda sought divorce proceedings
  • When asked about Epstein in a PBS interview, replied very suspiciously while wringing his hands: "there's absolutely nothing new on that", "well he's dead"
  • Stole tech: bought someone else's disk operating system, rewrote it and made it his own and then kept the source code and leased it to IBM
  • Aggressive and illegal patents on common stuff
  • Gets defense department contracts
  • Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation – it gave me life skills: article sponsored by the B&MGF. Current version of the article is sanitized.
  • Kept COVID vaccines away from poor nations using IP law
  • Got Oxford to close source a mostly open source vaccine funded publicly, then made them get an exclusivity deal with AstraZeneca
  • Ruthless anticompetitiveness in the 90s: embrace, extend, extinguish
  • No experience in the medical field, still gets to make choices regarding the WHO, which relies on B&MGF
  • Owns more farmland than anyone else, forces anyone farming publicly to use his seed from other companies
  • Grandfather James Willard Maxwell was an influential banker and director of a branch in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Mother Mary Maxwell Gates was heavily involved in international charity network United Way, part of the group that "decides how to allocate money and looked at all the different charities"; determines which are funded and how much
  • Father William Gates Sr. was a very powerful philanthropist

John F. Kennedy

  • Khrushchev condemned his assassination and gave condolences. The KGB launched an investigation into whether it, its agents, or contacts had anything to do; they did not. Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marxist who used to live in the USSR. KGB investigated its connections to him and found they never tried to recruit him while he lived there since he was seen as unreliable. USSR offered all files on Oswald and publicly offered assistance because they didn't want blame or military escalation. KGB believed he was assassinated by far-right oil barons who would blame the USSR, invade Cuba, and start nuclear war. Some higher-ups didn't believe this but were still concerned a leaderless USA could allow a rogue general to launch a nuclear weapon at Moscow. Because of uncertainty, the soviet military was put on high alert, preparations for war were made throughout the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leadership had reservations about LBJ because they were unfamiliar with him, in terms of how strict would he be with the USSR and how much was he willing to engage in dialogue and cooperate.
  • LBJ blamed a communist conspiracy rooted in Cuba and escalated the Cold War by invading Vietnam
  • Kennedy wanted to focus on domestic spending and upset the deep state by not being as aggressive as they liked: refused Operation Northwoods and invading Vietnam, stood up to hardliners in the Joint Chiefs of Staff by rejecting use of force in Cuba
  • Military and intelligence agencies are rarely defied successfully, like by de Gaulle
  • Believed in multipolarity rather than pushing Pax Americana and forcing US hegemony
  • Possibly said he "wanted to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds"
  • Tapes show Jackie Kennedy blamed LBJ and Texas tycoons
  • Many world leaders don't believe the official assassination narrative: Nasser/de Gaulle/Sukarno/Castro
  • LBJ: "After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again. That's no threat, that's a promise" (claimed by Madeleine Duncan Brown), "I looked it up: one out of every four Presidents has died in office. I'm a gamblin' man, darlin', and this is the only chance I got."
  • Many connected to the assassination mysteriously died

Ronald Reagan

  • Collapse of the USSR was multifaceted and US military spending wasn't even a major factor, people still attribute it largely to Reagan
  • Talks of prosperity — really only for the rich. Administration characterized by homelessness, poverty, incarceration, real wages falling
  • He was the manifestation of racial, religious, and economic backlash against the New Left of the 60s and 70s
  • Dogwhistled to segregationists, conflated social programs with lazy blacks, etc.
  • Cemented fundamentalist Christianity with conservatism and anti-communism
  • Deregulation and tax cuts were just continuation of Carter, head of the Fed was the same
  • Economy would have grown without tax cuts and deregulation because of economic cycles
  • Cut taxes on wealthy, caused more inequality
  • Illegally sold Iran a shitload of guns and missiles in order to raise funds for right-wing anti-communist death squads in Nicaragua (and totally got away with it) to try and overthrow an elected left-wing government
  • Crushed the working class, unions, and wages, leading to the low-pay wageslave society America is today for people outside of Finance or Tech
  • Started the financialization of the western economies (along with Thatcher)
  • Funded fundamentalist Islamic groups in the Middle East for anti-communist reasons, ironically lead to 9/11 and other phenomena in the world we see today, including Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
  • Invaded Grenada to overthrow the leftist government there
  • Supported the Apartheid government in South Africa
  • Supported brutal anti-communist dictators
  • Fed policy focused on inflation to the expense of employment, put millions of people out of work. People forget the early 80s had a recession which saw 7%-10% of the population unemployed.
  • Robbed social security to pay for tax cuts for the rich
  • Invented the theory of trickle down aka give the porkoids whatever they want and they will create jobs
  • Defunded education, first in CA then nationally to own the leftist students
  • Air traffic controllers union incident
  • No coincidence he was elected at same time as Thatcher, global capitalism was segueing into neoliberalism
  • Neocon in the social area/neoliberal in the economic area.
  • Denounced co-workers for being communists under false accusations
  • Bought the awful theory that no matter what, western culture should support any anti-communist dictatorship abroad, no matter how bloodlust they are because communism never migrates to "democracy" (their western concept of democracy) and instead of losing relevance after the USSR falling, disproving the theory, his ideology is still relevant.
  • Proclaimed his support for "small government", though his administration was one of the greatest contributors to national debt, even including inflation. Took debt-to-GDP from 30% to 50%.
  • Defaulted the U.S. by not paying the debt in gold, and, because the U.S. is full of weapons, decided to instead pay in dollars — still proclaimed by ultras, rightoids, and far-right as some magnificent economist-manager for his decisions
  • Solicited astrological advice
  • Talked with Soviet leader (Gorbachev?) and asked him at one point if the Soviets were willing to pause the Cold War in case of alien invasion (this was likely Reagan, may have been some other president)
  • Said Soviets are like the empire and other Star Wars references, echoed by others in modern political Harry Potter comparisons
  • Denied HIV til '87
  • Cognitive issues which became pronounced after presidency, people who worked with him noted he made a lot of stories up

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