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This is so true. Stalin was one of the greats! https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1314240051472224257
This reminds me of situation in grad school. Now, I'm a third world intellectual, revolutionary and staunch defender of Stalin and communism in the MLM tradition and I was hosting graduate students at my home for a get together...
I have lovely pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao on my wall in addition to other artwork and collectibles. So one of the graduate students tried to do dog-whistle anti-communism and attempted a a circle-jerk about it with the other students...
It flopped because we were all ready to have a nice time and talk philosophy. He became very upset that his white-bred mid-western anti-communism had failed to get the reaction he was conditioned to expect...
And so he attempted then to derail the evening putting out 1980's action movie anti-communist tropes on the table trying to carry out a "gotcha"...
So this dude was welcomed into my house, a communist home and went on an entitled, dogmatic, anti-communist rant and had a fit about Stalin and Mao in white tears and hate fueled tantrum...
I asked him to leave and he just couldn't believe it. I told him I was serious and he said he was sorry, that he just got carried away. I kicked him out anyway, but he could take his beer. After he left the rest of the evening was great...
Dog whistle anti-communism is just common currency, like racism, classcism, and misogyny are in academia. They're punchlines for bourgeois academics and a threat to all non-bourgeois academics...
Imagine being a third-world intellectual aligned with communism because it represents hope you have for your family and your people to be free from american and first-world tyranny...
And then you find your professors on twitter making fun of it and circle-jerking about it to accolades from the very people who benefit from your disenfranchisement?
My advice to Black and Brown people as an intellectual, a philosopher, and a logician is don't trust these white liberals. They are not your friends and they don't have your best interests in mind.
