I need these as posters.

I’ve been reading this book for one of my classes called Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures. I recommend this book especially to my eco-socialist comrades. Chapter 11, which is the chapter I just read, shows wonderfully how the imperialist US and Europe have screwed over vulnerable countries in the guise of assistance. I now understand why socialists say that the Word Bank, the IMF, and USAID are another way that the imperial core uses its power to exploit the rest of the world.

Oh awkward, I misread and thought you were talking about Albert Einstein since I knew he was a socialist. lol

I’m interested in learning more about these Einstein films. Can you share an example or two?

I read this paper about the food, disease, and death situation in the DPRK. It was interesting, but I wonder if there’s an updated version somewhere, especially since the recent economic boom they have been going through.

Not a book, but reading this article from the Monthly Review about Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Some of the arguments against Mao are similar to those put forward in Fraud, Famine, and Fascism.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Finally finished Fraud, Famine, and Fascism. Really informative in understanding where the Holodomr myth came from. It did lead me to wonder: are the Nazis in the current Ukrainian government the continuation of the OUN the book mentions?

I just learned about the Decalogue from Fraud, Famine, and Fascism, which is the 10 commandments of Ukrainian Nationalists.

1. You will attain a Ukrainian state or perish fighting for it.
2. You will not allow anyone to tarnish your people’s reputation or honour.
3. Remember the great days of our struggle for liberation.
4. Be proud that you are heir to the fight for the glory of Volodymyr’s Trident.
5. Avenge the death of the Great Knights.
6. Do not discuss this with whomever you can, but only with whom you must.
7. You will not hesitate to commit even the greatest crime, if the good of the cause demands it.
8. With hatred and deceit you will receive the enemies of your nation.
9. Neither pleading nor threats, torture or death will force you to reveal secrets.
10. You will strive to expand the strength, fame, wealth and area of the Ukrainian state, even through the enslavement of others.—

That sounds like an interesting book! I’ll have to add it to my list.

I liked this from Fraud, Famine and Fascism: (Referring to someone visiting Ukraine in 1941) " ‘One can come across an ordinary village girl … during our talk we discover that the girl is well-versed in mathematics, physics, chemistry … People are well informed. One could discus any political or social theme with the peasants.’ One can only wonder what kind of 'genocide results in such cultural and educational advances."

Two hilarious quotes from Fraud, Famine, and Fascism:

“Although Dalrymple admits ‘that there has been some question as to the existence and magnitude of the famine,’ he hastily discredits those whose reports beg to differ, declaring: ‘those who did not ‘see’ the famine may be divided into two groups: those who for one reason or another actually did not see it; and those who saw the famine but did not report it.’ Having established that he can count to two, Dalrymple has from the start …”

“One gets a more graphic sense of the unscientific nature of such statistical manipulation by projecting a hypothetical famine-genocide onto population trends in the province of Saskatchewan. … Citing such statistical ‘proof’, some might argue that the capitalists committed deliberate genocide against the population of Saskatchewan in the 1930s so as to suppress the militant resistance of prairie farmers and workers, whose lives were being ruined by economic depression. Suppression of the masses’ struggle - such as the RCMP attack on the Estevan strikers or the bloodshed inflicted on the unemployed Trekkers in Regina - could be cited, not to mention the mass eviction of poor tenants and farm foreclosures.”

Still reading Fraud, Famine and Fascism. I loved this part: “In the subsequent House debate on July 25, 1934, the Archbishop of Canterbury … supported Lord Charnwood by claiming a hearsay figure of 5,000,000 deaths. Government members shot down the discussion, partly ‘on grounds that those who wanted to talk about famine in Ukraine were not noticeably eager to examine oppression in Germany or poverty in England’”.

I just recently started Fraud, Famines, and Fascism. Pretty interesting so far!

I was just about to comment this too. lol