@SFFOOL76 It is indeed a grand conspiracy reaching back thousands of years. Even when UNLV was the undefeated defending champion and Duke had zero national championships and was a #2 seed, the referees were under an elaborate mind control scheme to ensure that Duke won. If they did not comply, ...
Leaders don't even need to come into the discussion. The strength of the revolution from a workers' perspective came from the organization of the soviets. The famines resulting from the war and the loss of Ukraine to Germany did more to undermine the soviets in Petrograd than any authoritarian ...
@patrickthesaint I am also sure that the "living standard" in the US in the 1950s vis-a-vis Europe had nothing to do with a war that destroyed virtually all major cities in central and eastern Europe
@foxjumper And more importantly, Marx was a devout democrat, and the Framers of the US constitution believed in a republic where franchise was limited by property ownership.
@CrazyCheeseMagee There's a lot of debate on those questions. I think it's no guarantee the Communist party in Russia doesn't become authoritarian anyway, but I also think the civil war reinforced the machinery of state power and encouraged the beginnings of terror that Stalin was able to exploi...
@mixmastermeeks Two things. One, Chomsky does not take the position that Clinton should be lauded or blamed for anything in particular. Rather he points out that Clinton's policy positions reflected what he thought was his straight forward campaign image of a so-called "New Democrat" in his par...
@SFFOOL76 It is indeed a grand conspiracy reaching back thousands of years. Even when UNLV was the undefeated defending champion and Duke had zero national championships and was a #2 seed, the referees were under an elaborate mind control scheme to ensure that Duke won. If they did not comply, ...