Reading Blackshirts & Reds and am at about 40% through the book. The amount of critique he is giving to how poorly the economic situation in the USSR was, how Stalin’s way of running things and how people were negligible about their jobs because there was no reason to be competitive or to do a good job is honestly a bit stark. Is this anti-communism or is this just good faith criticism?
Because the USSR collapsed. One of the first things you have to explain defending the USSR is, “Well if it was so great, why isn’t it around anymore?” Obviously, it had flaws, or it’d still be here.