Can Lenin be considered a dictator?
While the early Soviet State wasn't really democratic, it doesn't seem like Lenin had any supreme power within the government.
There was real debate between the party members, and Lenin very regularly went against his own wishes to comply with the party. His retreat in the Nations Question is a great example.
Pretty sure that Lenin was the most liberal leader of our time
almost all "founders" can be considered dictator
>>1897929
>Can Lenin be considered a dictator?
I think not even he would have disagreed about that. Although he would argue he is just a tool legitimized by the proletariat and its vanguard - the party.
If you take a political science approach he sure as fuck was a dictator.
>there is only 1 thread on the front page that isn't about WW2, Jews or politics
We need more threads about Marxism
/his/ goes into the history Soviet States often but rarely has any discussion on the ideological tradition all of these states are predicated upon
Pol should be all over Marxism. The USSR was a racist, sexist, antiliberal utopia.
>>1897940
But it was the enemy of the third reich
and third reich had better graphics
What are some of the most beloved and longest worshiped deities in the world of all time?
>>1897832
Dat Ass (fertility goddess)
>>1897832
The sky
Help me with my intellectual self-confidence /his/. Is intelligence and iq a sham, or is it really something that can quantitatively be measured? Which is more important - the genome, or the environment of the genome?
I ask because I feel stupid at times. My intellectual awakening is recent, and I used to think that intelligence was the one redeemable quality I had, but I doubt that now. I've always thought so because the people around me have always said I'm intelligent. I've been brought down to earth very quickly, and it's honestly depressing.
>>1897773
Don't worry about it. Low iq is a gift.
>>1897773
IQ is mostly inherited, but you can supplement it heavily with books and reading, boost it probably 15 or so.
Also don't use drugs heavily, else it will permanently drop.
>>1897773
what is important is experience and mindset
intelligence is basicaly just cognitive capacity, its often as helpfull as a calculator in a forest
not that being dumb is a good thing, just that being intelligent isnt the same as being smart
>most if the original citizens of Israel were Jews from the Middle East
So let me get thia straight
>the Middle East has a mixed Muslim and Jewish population
>Jews decide they should form their own state
>lets form it in the place where Jews originally came from
>Israel is formed, Muslims who live there get kicked out and get sent to Arab countries that only got formed at the same time as Israel
>the same amount of Jews get kicked out of the Arab countries and are sent to Israel
How is this event not seen as a population exchange and division of the Middle East between two indigenius groups but as Jews taking over Arab clay?
>>1897711
It was about 2/3 arab ethnically cleansed to 1/3rd, with half the jews being ashkenazi who arrived from Europe since 1930s
because most if the original citizens of Israel were not Jews from the Middle East
>>1897719
That was true before the first arab-israeli war but middle eastern jews became a majority after that in Israel.
Whites have more ruins and relics, but African cultures have more traditional customs that survive today.
U mad white boi
>>1897603
I like what I see, boi next door
>>1897603
>u mad?
y tho?
>>1897603
All I heard is that Africa is stuck in the past.
The only thing that has changed is their population.
/mu/-fag posting here
What music scene was culturally the most interesting to you guys?
The Norwegian Black metal scene was fucking crazy
>couple of unemployed punks who are into Venom
>a Swede that kills himself
>a male hooker getting stabbed
>a schizo killing his mate that basically ran the scene
>church burnings
>copy cats
>gazillion of shitty uninteresting bands spawn to the point where even the founders of the scene are appalled by it
Am I missing something here? At least if you pick something from the 20th century pick Anarcho-punks. Those guys legitimately caused riots and got the KGB involved. Also for the most part there was not Black Metal scene in Norway at least not when they still made quality albums.
>>1897490
>Group of anti-christians revolting against contemporary society
>Church-burnings were done because they wanted revenge for the holy sites that were taken down in favor of the churches
>Media painted them as satanists and it inspired many copycat wanna-be satanists, scaring the public
>How little they cared about law in terms of getting their views out
>>1897501
>Group of anti-christians revolting against contemporary society
They were like 19 and had no theoretical background or anything. Get you information someplace else than Thulean perspective. If you wanna see some revolting do some reading on Heavy Metal in Poland, Russia or the GDR in the 80s. Those people were put in prison by the secret police while Mayhem lived off welfare checks and Moonshine.
>Church-burnings were done because they wanted revenge for the holy sites that were taken down in favor of the churches
Bullshit. It was done for the lulz. Again they had no concept of what they were doing. Do believe Varg. Ever.
>Media painted them as satanists and it inspired many copycat wanna-be satanists, scaring the public
Again your only info on the subject matter seems to be Varg.
>How little they cared about law in terms of getting their views out
What views? Pic related or what? Read the book that Necro put out recently. This was fairly normal alternative scene that emerged everywhere in Western culture since the 1930s or so. And than it attracted 5-6 very fucked up people. It literally is nothing special.
How did 2 of the smartest and most intellectual cultures on earth ended up becoming ant societies where the progress of the last centuries was reversed and ended up slaughtering each other mechanically and everything which even resembles a human?
This is actually as close as humanity ever got to real apocalypse and the deepest it's ever fallen. Isn't this ultimate proof that god is evil?
They clearly wasnt smartest and most intellectual then
>idealism, rationalism, empiricism, materialism, utilitarianism, positivism, socialism, anarchism, nihilism, and, underlying them all, atheism
Dostoyevsky told you.
>>1897199
>Russia
>intellectual
wew lad
why does israel exist?
>>1896923
Because every nation has the right to self-determination. This includes the ones that you don't personally like.
because nobody wants jews on their clay so they just decided to dump them to same hole with other sand people.
>>1896926
>Because every nation has the right to self-determination.
*except white countries those are for everyone and they simply must accept multiculturalism
Over 50% of all Israeli Jews are refugees from the Middle East and Africa that have nowhere else to go. If the Palestinians manage to "dismantle" Israel, where do they go?
On a related note, is it really accurate to characterise Israel as a "colonialist" state 1. the "colonialists" are also indigenous to the region and 2. most of the people living there didn't move there by choice?
Pic unrelated
>>1896836
>implying that the Palestinians end goal is to just "dismantle" the state of Israel and not murder all the Jews like their book tells them to.
>>1896836
>European Jews are indigenous to the region
>>1896836
>Golan Heights not included
If you make a Greater Israel map at least do it properly.
Why did he fall into madness?
>>1896782
that guy looks like Benedict Cumberbatch
>>1896803
>you will never shoot Benedict Cumberbatch into a mass grave
Why live?
>>1896782
do you think you'd be able to pull the trigger if you were in that situation bros? I don't think i have it in me.
why are people so horrible to each other
; ;
What can /his/ tell me about this man?
BFTO a hated minority, killed anyone who was against him, likes Hitler causes massive ass hurt in the west. Basically what /pol/ would consider "Based" if he were white.
>>1896775
But at the end he begged the whites to come back didn't he?
hated whitey
met a Zimbabwean white, and they got really mad when I mentioned mugabe. like actually mad... it was my fault, I had a momentary lapse of realizing what he did to them crackas
Pretend Hitler died in the Great War instead of getting injured. What do you think the world would be like today? Do you think that the Left would find another strawman to go after Nationalists? Likely the Bolshevist regime would have swept Europe, but I highly doubt it would have lasted; I think there would have been uprisings such as in Romania, probably funded and backed by what we know of as 'The Allies'.
So whether another World War would have been inevitable is a matter of debate, but I don't think we'd be in nearly this mess that is the modern West if the NSDAP had never arisen.
>>1896731
The far-right was on the rise already (see: Freikorps). None of the essential factors that led to the rise of Nazism would have changed, but there would've been a different, potentially more competent, guy at the head of it all.
>>1896731
Had hitler died in WW1 there would still be fascist countries today.
Germany picks a different fascist poster boy that isn't syphilitic and more compliant with competent military officers and the EU is replaced by a fascist super power that could hold sway over Russia. Assuming Japan was still on Germany's side, that means that a whole half of the world is opposed to the US. That's a war that the U.S. loses. It wouldn't be a unified world government (that's impossible), but German/fascist hegemony controls the geopolitical climate.
Depending on how you view the U.S. now, not much.
tell me about zhukov, why does he wear the medals?
>>1896716
>non-meme answer
Because he was a big part of the Soviet Union winning the war, unlike North Korean generals he had a hand in pretty much every major operation.
>meme answer
It's a big front.
why not read about him on wikipedia?
>>1896716
>if I send unarmed men at machine gun nests would they die?
Would the byzantines have survived longer if they never asked the catholics for help?
By "longer" do you mean that they would smell their weakness and invade them themselves to make our job even easier while trying to rebuild the defenses and maintain order?
Then sure, friend.
>>1896694
They have themselves to blame for trusting Venetians.
>>1896698
yes bos very fun mem that picture u post 200000 time gits me errytime mashallah yease