He literally said this, guys!
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...Literally!
Isn't his official field of study medieval literature? Why'd he end up getting so into defending the USSR?
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I believe that he was with some Hoxhaists in their own political party back in the day.
Honestly I don't get his fixation with defending Stalin specifically. Stalin wasn't the entirety of the USSR, just it's leader at a pivotal moment, and like most leaders he had flaws. If anything defending this one specific person in a leadership role of the USSR is a detriment to the reputation of the institution as a hole, the achievements of the Soviet Union weren't Stalin's alone. It really screams "I just worship a cult of personality" instead of "I'm trying to do an honest defense of a socialist project that has been smeared by most."
The point, as he makes it in his books, is that western historiography of the Soviet Union has a deeply embedded anti-Stalin paradigm. Every discussion of the USSR from 1930-1950 is nothing more than "Stalin bad", ignoring the entire actual history in favor of fabricating outright lies about one person. He specifically defends Stalin, in books that don't claim to be more than a defence of Stalin, because it's Stalin who is under attack and who is the only point on which western academia will engage with the USSR. Debunking the idea that Stalin was a lone omnipotent tyrannical figure - and the extrapolation by bourgeoise historians that communism inevitably becomes a dictatorship of such a figure - is a huge part of that. He even says he would never call himself a Stalinist, not least because Stalin wouldn't have wanted people to call themselves Stalinists!
Is the difference between furr and Losurdo that the latter is an actual historian? Haven’t read furr
Basically. There's no need for Furr, who is in fact a crank, when Losurdo exists.
We are ALL Furries on this blessed day! 🙏
OMG, I love this term!
I will never not picture Grover Furr as a muppet in my mind.
He's alright, in all seriousness, but I've caught him defending Lysenko in one podcast where he was interviewed so that was... weird.
To be fair I meant it literally, not as an insult. You cannot be called Grover Furr and have me not imagine a character created by Jim Henson.
Ah, alright.
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This is a joke, btw.
Okay, but did he literally say this?
should have holo done mor
Holo-dewit
This is literally 1984!