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A linear scale and even the 2d "compass" is only useful for the most basic introduction to political parties but sometimes ya gotta meet people where they are at ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Do I need a list? Come on, I'm sure you learned in school how eeeeevil Stalin is and how he was just as bad as Hitler. Or worse than Hitler! Then you just kept on believing the Animal Farm narrative, because you trusted the lies your teacher told you.

So speaking of, I recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me as a primer, so you can understand how woefully miseducated a bourgeois education will leave you. It has plenty of examples of the lies that the ideological state apparatus pumps into its schools.

And if you want to actually learn some real history about Stalin, there's now an English translation of Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend. That's definitely a heavier book than Lies, though, I'm still working through it.

[โ€“] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 hours ago

they are teaching that stalin is evil because he is rightwing?

is anyone here actually reading the words that i'm typing before responding?