@Neat_hot
I’m sure there are still a lot of folks around my age and older (I’m boomer years old) who equate the hammer and sickle logo and the once upon a time #SovietUnion, and conflate that with the dog whistle #communism. Not necessarily MAGA, even. I wonder if the word has lost its teeth with the young’uns. I hope so. #mamdani’s NYC election might seem to suggest so.
#Sovietunion
Happy 108th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, 7 November, 2025.
Workers of the world, unite!
#greatoctobersocialistrevolution #octoberrevolution #socialistrevolution #socialistrevolutions #revolution #revolutions #workersoftheworldunite #sovietunion #ussr #sovietrussia #socialism #socialisme #socialismo #социализм #sofiaflorina #ソフィアロリナ #советскийсоюз #ссср #советскаяроссия #революция #октябрьскаяреволюция #пролетариивсехстрансоединяйтесь
@benroyce @Pineywoozle @mike805 @CStamp @rozeboosje
I know it's not the point of this thread, but the mass starvation in #soviet #Russia was caused by hyper-fast #industrialization - literally the fastest in #history. That was policy set because #Stalin viewed the #Nazis as an existential threat to all #slavic people..
Why?
Because the #KGB had #Nazi documents stating unequivocally that their plan for the #SovietUnion was to enslave or murder its entire populous.
That being said. He was a paranoid dictator and the Soviet Union was an #imperialist power and their #communism was absolutely #authoritarian.
/rant
108th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – the heritage we defend!
This world-historic event led to a huge transformation of the former repressive Czarist Empire – politically, economically, culturally, and also concerning questions of gender and sexual equality, and in many other aspects of working-class life.
#news #press #sovietunion #communism #capitalism #marxism #democracy #october #russia
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, the #OctoberRevolution broke out in #Russia against the Provisional Government. #Boksheviks were furious about WWI and radicalized by the suffering of the war. #Lenin led the #RussianRevolution through a brutal civil war and founded the #SovietUnion.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Faithslayer202/115503590645602773
#Revisionism killed the #SovietUnion, not any sort of inherent failure of socialism.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives
Melodiya Ensemble Plays Works By Duke Ellington, released on Мелодия in the Soviet Union in 1978.
Swinging groovy versions of Ellington tunes from behind the Iron Curtain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Pj1UF4NCk&list=RDM9Pj1UF4NCk&start_radio=1
#DukeEllington #MelodiyaEnsemble #Jazz #Swing #Music #SovietUnion
Polish gunboat engaging the Soviet riverfleet during the Battle of Chornobyl, 1920
Soviet soldier with a makeshift Anti-Aircraft setup using captured Nazi machineguns, WW2, during or after 1941
Soviet soldier with a makeshift Anti-Aircraft setup using captured Nazi machineguns, WW2, during or after 1941
"Soviet-made cars were almost unheard of in Singapore until the late seventies, when the Soviet Union’s trade with the ASEAN countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines) rose tremendously. Almost $938 million of trade were recorded in the first nine months of 1977, a 47% jump compared to the previous year."
https://remembersingapore.org/2025/10/30/soviet-made-cars-singapore-70s-to-90s/
Axis Victor A.U maps.
#map #Earth #sfw #image #axis #axispowers #worldwartwo #ww2 #alternatehistory #originalmap #germany #nationalsocialism #nazi #thirdreich #japan #italy #romanempire #sovietunion
💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.
Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.
Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).
In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.
A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-economic-reform-workers-feygin/
#SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika
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