
Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat
Guerrilla History
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The Negative Effects of Abstract Universalism on Industrialization
It's not just willful thinking, but taking a concrete situation to such an abstract level that then you come up with strategies that are really self-defeating. That could be another way perhaps of saying it, but it doesn't really fulfill the translation very well. I would think it's not because now they were actually a set of concrete policies to meet concrete situations. It went badly, but not because of wishful thinking,. The concrete situation was such, it was such complexity that it's not that it was unworkable, because it ended up being workable.
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