u/Fhlurrhy108

Hi everyone. I have started to actually read theory, but we all know that theory is useless without application. I want to read more about the greatest experiment in socialism, and the greatest workers' democracy in human history.

I want to have a somewhat comprehensive view about the various topics of Soviet history, including:

1. Tsarist Russia and the October Revolution

2. Russian Civil War

3. Stalin's 5 year plans

4. The Moscow Trials and the Great Purge

5. World War 2

6. Kruschevite Revisionism and Brezhnevite Administration

7. Gorbachev and Yeltsin's dismantling of the USSR

8. Religion in the USSR

9. Freedom of speech, expression, and dissent in the USSR

10. The state of ethnic minorities in the USSR

11. Workers' democracy and political economy in the USSR

If you have recommendations, please categories them according to these topics. Thank you.

Question is in the title. Are the Sandinistas not ML? Was the PNP in Jamaica not socialist?

I recently saw documentaries about several socialist experiments on the AfroMarxist and SoledadPanther YouTube channels, including these ones. But whenever I see a map of "countries that have been socialist" I never see these two there. They aren't usually talked about in discussions about the failures offer succeses of socialism either (except for when liberals want to point to the Sandinistas and say "big bad dictatorship therefore 'Murica good)

I think people might call Michael Manley and his PNP a social democrat party (he basically said "I don't support communism because it's too authoritarian, and instead want democratic socialism").

But I don't know why the Sandinistas aren't ML. They (at least after taking power, I don't know about the recent years) seemed to be a good vanguard that are trying to build a planned economy with a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Can someone explain this?

Hi, I'm Fhlurrhy. I'm a genderfluid transfem from India, age 19. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for but I've been craaaaving affection the past few months. I need to know if there's any gentlemen who'd like to try and date me. I want to start as affectionate friends and see if anything goes anywhere. I'm okay with both irl and long distance. Some stuff about me:

1. I'm not a girl all the time (because genderfluid), though I'm generally more fem then masc.

2. I'm polyamorous

3. My interests include anime, art, dinosaurs, cultural geography, socialism and music

I like all kinds of anime, but have a soft spot for slice of life and fantasy. I love all kinds of music, including genres like metal, rock, blues, roma jazz and edm.

If you want to get a response from me, then use this format:

Name, Age, Interests, What you're looking for, Location and Time Zone

Unless you fill these all out, I'm not going to respond.

Anyways, see you in my DMs. I'll look forward to talking to you handsomes ;)

Gooning isn't very satisfying tbh. I don't have my own room at my mom's house (I do have one at my dad's, but I don't usually live there) and definitely not at hostel. Gooning in the bathroom just doesn't feel good.

I can't find people to hook up with because Gujjus are more conservative than other Indians. It's hard for straight people to get any sex (before marriage) here, and it seems queer people are non existent on dating apps. Don't tell me to just "find people irl". I'm not outing myself as trans, and risking getting disowned, just so that I can have a chance at fucking someone.

This sexlessness makes me dysphoric because I feel ugly and undesirable. I feel like my body isn't good enough for anyone even though I know that's not true.

I hate everything and everyone.

I hate myself.

I keep seeing people say that 22,000 Polish prisoners of war and officers were massacred in Katyn by the Soviets in 1940 and that multiple investigations prove this. I also see people saying that during the interwar Soviet occupation of Poland, the NKVD killed 110,000 Poles.

My Polish social democrat friend told me "you're trying to convince a person in whose country the USSR committed Genocide that the USSR wasn't that bad". She also says "I am against imperialism", "I'm not even sure if the Nazis were worse than the Soviets" and "the USSR was fascist". From what I know, she was raised in the shock therapy era of Poland and seems to have just believed the usual things liberals say about the USSR. I'm not sure how to talk to her about the Soviet Union without looking unbelievably arrogant and pretentious (since I'm just a college student from India, nowhere near the USSR)

How much of this is true?