and I would say that if you feel that way about Soviet history in the aggregate, then you are buying biased Western historiography & anti-communist propaganda
Stalin & Lenin didn't accomplish everything for the Soviet Union, the Soviet people did. The same is true of Mao & the people of PRC. I do not buy Great Man theory for a second, this is a bourgeois tendency &is intellectually bound up in capitalist/idealist notions.
Demonizing the past and looking for ways to skirt around the very real obstacles that previous ML & socialist projects contended with is a recipe for proceeding in a pointless & doomed manner
i agree great man theory is garbage, which is why the achievements of the Soviet & PRC & Vietnamese & Burkinabe & Cuban and other people were not the achievements of a few "important" individuals
okay, but I just told you that ML projects are not based on the spurious bourgeois misrepresentations of economic/cultural historiography
You said "Fine", so if you can believe that ML projects depended on millions of unnamed & devoted people rather than a few "charismatic leaders", then you admit that Great Man theory doesn't relate to socialist history hardly at all
so please, I would beg you stop projecting your own beliefs about history onto others.
Mao and Stalin & Castro did not achieve everything alone, but historiography in the West is geared in this way. Almost anything we read is steeped in these false ideological conventions regardless, just by nature of being written in the capitalist West
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and I would say that if you feel that way about Soviet history in the aggregate, then you are buying biased Western historiography & anti-communist propaganda
Stalin & Lenin didn't accomplish everything for the Soviet Union, the Soviet people did. The same is true of Mao & the people of PRC. I do not buy Great Man theory for a second, this is a bourgeois tendency &is intellectually bound up in capitalist/idealist notions.
Demonizing the past and looking for ways to skirt around the very real obstacles that previous ML & socialist projects contended with is a recipe for proceeding in a pointless & doomed manner
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i agree great man theory is garbage, which is why the achievements of the Soviet & PRC & Vietnamese & Burkinabe & Cuban and other people were not the achievements of a few "important" individuals
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i hope you can see how you're making a straw man argument here against me tho
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to your implication or suggestion that I am making a Great Man argument for ML projects, bc I am not
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okay, but I just told you that ML projects are not based on the spurious bourgeois misrepresentations of economic/cultural historiography
You said "Fine", so if you can believe that ML projects depended on millions of unnamed & devoted people rather than a few "charismatic leaders", then you admit that Great Man theory doesn't relate to socialist history hardly at all
so please, I would beg you stop projecting your own beliefs about history onto others.
Mao and Stalin & Castro did not achieve everything alone, but historiography in the West is geared in this way. Almost anything we read is steeped in these false ideological conventions regardless, just by nature of being written in the capitalist West