Message from @Apple O'Day
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I dunno, supporting saudi arabia doesn't seem very liberal to me
and they don't really seem to be on the side of the yemeni people
>tfw you fight a war against islamist theocracies but you side with and get money from the gulf state islamic theocracies while picking a fight with every socialistic and secular nation in the region
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>tfw your greatest ally in the middle east crucifies people, has public executions, and runs religious police that beat people in the street for not obeying sharia law
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Lmao
As if the saudi monarchy isnt tbe lynchpin keeping islamism at bay
Got damn westerners are fucking dumb sometimes, saudi arabia is one of the most saught after visas in the world and arguably the most respected place on the planet, at least for believers, you think the heart of islam would be a secular democracy? moronic
9/11 trolling
>when you're supposed to be "keeping islamism at bay" but you give arms to al qaeda
Implying the united states even has a coherent foreign policiy between Israeli interests of regional destabilization and naive human rights shit
This is American cultural superiority
I think I understand all that "death to america" stuff now
According to historian Aleksandr Pyzhikov (who is very much an anti-communist and anti-Stalin historian) in 1947 there was a proposition to update the party’s program. This 1947 party program has never been made available.
What’s as the proposition
What was
Mate I was going to fucking paste it dont interrupt you fuckhead
Have some patience
Why don’t you just post the link?
Can you have patience
K
He's gonna post, I think he is just giving some context first
“According to Pyzhikov this program described “a progressive narrowing of the political functions of the state, and to the conversion of the state into, in the main, an organ of the management of the economic life of society.”
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Pyzhikov explains that the draft “concerned the development of the democratization of the Soviet order. This plan recognized as essential a universal process of drawing workers into the running of the state, into daily active state and social activity on the basis of a steady development of the cultural level of the masses and a maximal simplification of the functions of state management. It proposed in practice to proceed to the unification of productive work with participation in the management of state affairs, with the transition to the successive carrying out of the functions of management by all working people. It also expatiated upon the idea of the introduction of direct legislative activity by the people, for which the following were considered essential:
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a) to implement universal voting and decision-making on the majority of the most important questions of governmental life in both the social and economic spheres, as well as in questions of living conditions and cultural development;
b) to widely develop legislative initiative from below, by means of granting to social organizations the rights to submit to the Supreme Soviet proposals for new legislation;
c) to confirm the right of citizens and social organizations to directly submit proposals to the Supreme Soviet on the most important questions of international and internal policy.””
(Pyzhikov, A. “N.A. Voznesenskii o perspektivakh poselvoennogo obnovleniia obshchestva.” in Furr, Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform)
According to one guy Stalin tried to do this
Why would he not do it before?
Why did he not try again?
I could point to a huddled source and examples that point to Stalin acting in a way that contradicts this
Certainly the Soviet Union was more democratic during Lenin’s period