The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai

[@sazhaxeramezha449]

This episode may require a significant critique, but I'll wait until I get to the end.

[@mecha37000fighter]

Why?

[@sazhaxeramezha449]

@@mecha37000fighter Ghodsee's acceptance of the anti-Stalin paradigm is as complete as any liberal's, and her apparent inability to view Stalin or the period of his leadership dialectically is problematic, to say the least. Her use of phrases such as "nobody could deny..." when she knows that there are alternate perspectives wherein Stalin is viewed more positively than negatively, and not only in his leadership of the Soviet Union in defeating the Nazis, exhibits a blatant disregard for intellectual honesty. I want to forgive Breht for handling her with kid gloves, because if you want to discuss Kollontai, it makes sense to have her on, but she's been on the show a number of times now, and I'm not sure it adds much to the larger discourse to keep platforming her on this show. It will be interesting to hear the Red Menace episode on Kollontai that gets mentioned, to find out if her demsoc/ultraleft/anarchist ideas are critiqued as idealistic (not in the philosophical sense of idealism, but in the more colloquial sense).

[@mecha37000fighter]

@@sazhaxeramezha449 mmmm, good points

[@RBLXGaming23]

@@sazhaxeramezha449 I agree. Not once does Ghodsee ever bring up the very real problem of Nazi collaboration, which was the reason for the purges. She also overemphasizes the old Bolsheviks as being part of what she calls the "anti-fascist resistance." The 19 old leaders who were executed deserved what they got. The courts proved that. This fact is lost on Ghodsee. She never even brings up the possibility that they were guilty.

[@DJonoNeedsaJob]

Get Yanis Varoufakis on your show!

[@TheMessageYouTube]

Wow, what an evil woman

[@NoxAeterna-wf4iv]

Cry more. 😂

[@TheMessageYouTube]

@@NoxAeterna-wf4iv I shed no tears for sick ideologues