chapotraphouse

I agree. They are deeply unserious

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you can format .txt files pretty nicely if you're not a dweeb, skill issue imo

Yet your comment is formatted. Curious! :very-intelligent:

Yes. J Arch Getty - a legit Soviet historian who is a lib but is still very fair to Stalin IMO and generally very USSR-friendly - once said that Furr understands the material in the archives, but he just comes to really weird conclusions.

I think Furr is fine as long as you know you’re getting an apologist more than a historian. There’s a place for that. Furr himself admittedly (on the Proles pod) he thinks Stalin did nothing wrong. If you approach history from that angle you’re going to have blind spots. IMO skip Furr and go to Losurdo.

It kind of looks like reddit has permanently marked all accounts and variously fingerprinted users that once posted often in r/cth and now they just ban any new subreddit where they start to congregate regardless of whether it's an actual attempt to revive the sub or not. It's like a soft shadow ban where we can still comment on most posts in most subreddits, but if we start talking politics with like minded people, it alerts the admins.

it's really funny that a socdem podcast community became a pretext for reddit to remove any and all marxist discussion.

I do these edits all the time all over socialist articles. I just write in "does not conform to wikipedia NPOV rules, biased language removed".

I use the abbreviation to sound all official wikipedian legalese and make people think twice about reverting lmao

Of course fucking Mzajac/Michael Z is on that page. He defends pro-Western narratives about Ukraine all over Wikipedia.

I had a class with what was the stereotype of a college professor chuds complain about.

Was some gen Ed credit like "culture language and hummanity" that was basically him being a reddit atheist lib about every current topic.

We were supposed to "keep a journal" for the whole course for our final grade.

Finals week I went through all his power points and paraphrased them as my "journal"

He had me come I to his office to congratulate me and tell me I had thenoutlinenof a book lol.

Libs love hearing their own thoughts quoted back at them.

I had a history prof go on a class long tangent about how communists were evil because Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses. I, being a cringe atheist at the time thought "damn that's cool af, this Marx guy is spitting" and I think that was the general consensus of the class.

Geography professor however started day one with a lecture on why Mercator, and most other map projections are racist, and told us that he wasn't listening to any complaints about saying that from anyone white.

He's literally the right wing boogeyman Stalinist college professor in the actual existing flesh. He's written books defending Stalin from the perspective that Stalin could basically do no wrong.

A Soviet archive enthusiast

If his field was political theory he would be a massive neoliberal. From my own experience, the way anglo-american academia seems to work is that if your field is related to that, it's very hard to get a job in academia without reproducing US empire propaganda. For instance, their philosophers don't read Marx, and a lot of the political philosophy they study exists to basically justify liberal democracy as the most ethical system that exists.
If you come from a different field though, like English literature, there is more leeway to study Marx and critical theory. Grover Furr is also a massive ML and hobbyist historian of Soviet history, and it probably bleeds into his classes quite a lot.

Because he has tenure

The novel is a pretty recent Western invention. Literature is quite a broad term and includes articles, poetry, diaries, etc