> On Dec 27, 2025, at 16:41, Michael Pugliese via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does it not exemplify the crudity, vulgarity and rank demagogy inherent in > Stalinist culture?
Historically speaking, there has been a lot of that on the left, i.e. our side is not free of crudity, vulgarity and rank demagogy, whichever "our side" happens to be. But Soviet cartoons before and during Stalin's time avoided the antisemitic caricatures of our political opponents. I'd characterize the 1920s campaigns against Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamanev as "dog-whistle racist." I think anti-Jewish racism took root in the CPSU well before Stalin's ascendency. And in a country that most people who post to this list would agree had expropriated its aristocratic and capitalist classes. I worry about what that problem means for us, rather than the cartoons of political faction fights. thanks, Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39908): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39908 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116942287/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
