if i get banned, give my love to yehuda, Bob the Builder, and co, but especially ComradeMan.
How the fuck did YOU get to keep your mod position
Good post in the CC nomination thread against the CWI's ridiculous position - though I thank your posts way to much. Your biggest fan <3
I heard this morning, it is terrible news.
Awful news about Comrade Harman, if you haven't heard.
Thats an interesting one, especially if you consider the CP rose to power in quasi-democratic terms (in the sense that they were popularly elected in a relatively corruption-free election). No doubt you'll nail it, but if it helps I reccommend (despite its obvious bias) Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed by Mary Heimann on Yale University Press. "The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938 and betrayed to the Soviets in 1948, and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies, and pave the way for the Communist police state"
just comparing the transfer of power to their respective communist parties in Poland and Czechoslovakia, mainly concerned with 1942-1948, that kind of period, particularly why the Czech communists had some degree of popular support, compared to the Polish.
In general terms yes, but I think the matter gets a bit complex after the liberalisation period of the 1960s. What is the essay on exactly? If you need any help give us a shout as its my main area of research interest.
yoo sam, im doing an essay on czechoslovakia atm, which makes me think of you, and those stalinists really were bastards weren't they.
Thanks Bob, hoping to have a decent day, especially if Aberdeen win!
