Starting to get that feeling in the first 26 pages. It’s great and have wanted to read it for a while now. But wondering what the take is here on it overall.
The line he literally wrote about the population size of Russia being unsuitable for socialism is like verbatim RW criticism used today and typically repeated when saying that it while it may work in small European counties it won’t here.
Need also to brush up on the Russian Revolution, having only read some of John Reed’s account.
Part of me really wants to find triple citations of all of this to get this acquaintance of mine to finally shut the fuck up about “gulag archipelago”. But part of me knows he’d never accept any of them and it’d only serve to hurt my own mental health.
The first time I realized Taibi was sus was when he mentioned that he was reading Gulag archipelago _again