On this date, 50 years ago, we learned what happens when an advanced workers led project reaches power through elections in bourgeois democracy.
We learned how the bourgeoisie takes back control when there is no revolutionary organization ready to fight back.
They will kill us, they will torture us and they will create an economic devastation to make sure we don't try again.
There's no alternative. It's revolution or death, socialism or barbarism.
Wow. A transgender person that has a public career and adopted 3 kids. This person's life would absolutely hell in the so called "democratic west".
I took a look at the article and the authors. The senior author is a computer science guy focused on researching online harmful behavior.
It's quite telling that he has no humanities training whatsoever in his academic background. A CS guy doing humanities research without any training in humanities.
I myself fit the description of guy from a hard quantitative science background who delved into humanities and social sciences research. I'll honestly say to you: the only thing worse than a humanities researcher who eschew any type of quantitative research as "positivist reductionism" is a "hard science guy" who thinks he^[1]^ doesn't have to give a shit to the work that was done by humanities researchers because "numbers will tell me everything I need to know".
[1] Masculine referents 100% intended because it's usually a guy.
I know a couple of liberals who L.O.V.E. to cite Du Bois around that would be pretty shocked by this quote.
If liberals knew how fucking "tankie" some of their idols really were they would completely melt.