Anarchist friend brought up Russification of Kazakstan (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Hestia@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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How do you respond to this? It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into, but it seems like one of the few critiques where you just say “critical support for the USSR, we need to learn from the past mistakes the soviets made and do better the next time around.”

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

good post, I think I'll have to rethink how I approach rhetoric because you do have a great point about over- and under-estimating where other people are coming from and how to take them from what they know to what I know. And yeah, I might be over-essentializing the idealism of a medieval peasant, there's obviously an empiricist instinct in every person that's required just to survive.