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> The US, if anything, is much less progressive than the USSR was at that time. This seems like a pretty baffling conclusion. Why do you think that’s the case?
by marcellus23 5y ago
> The US, if anything, is much less progressive than the USSR was at that time.
This seems like a pretty baffling conclusion. Why do you think that’s the case?
- actually_a_dog 5y agoRegarding racism in the USSR, the answer is "it's complicated." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/black-skin-red-land-african-americans-and-soviet-experiment https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/black-skin-red-land-a... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russians#Early_Soviet_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russians#Early_Soviet_per... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271627743300108?journalCode=anna https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271627743300... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/06/10/the-affirmative-action-empire https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/06/10/the-affirmativ... https://interzine.org/2021/03/18/was-the-soviet-union-racist-a-discussion-with-alexander-verkhovsky/ https://interzine.org/2021/03/18/was-the-soviet-union-racist...
- marcellus23 5y agoRacism is also just a single axis of progressivism though.