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What clowns This what happens when despots concentrate power in their hands When professionalism matters less than loyalty, the professionals become scarce I
by worik 2y ago
What clowns
This what happens when despots concentrate power in their hands
When professionalism matters less than loyalty, the professionals become scarce
In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. Now there is loyalty to Putin.
Makes me weep to see the same thing happening in the USA. Ideology can be problematic (I do not miss the Bolsheviks) but loyalty to the Big Man is much more random, and worse
- saalweachter 2y ago> In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. You mean, after Stalin died in '53?
- Ray20 2y ago>In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. Now there is loyalty to Putin. No, there wasn't. Soviet ideology that meant something died under Lenin, and already Stalin in those aspects of loyalty to the Big Man were way more demanding and intolerant, then Putin.
- wqaatwt 2y agoLenin adopted (or lied about adopting) whatever policies he felt would allow him to get into power and then keep it. That was his only real ideology. Not that different from Stalin or Putin, I don’t really get why is that silly idea that Lenin was somehow “purer” still so ingrained…
- Ray20 2y agoLenin wrote, like, 20 billion books and articles about his ideology. And no, you generally doesn't need 20 billion books and articles to get into power and then keep it. Compare him with Stalin, who even read with difficulty, or with Putin, who wrote one and a half articles on history.
- wqaatwt 2y agoIn that sense perhaps he was more similar to someone like Hitler, that’s true. But the amount of content he published hardly related to his actual actions. He was a power seeking pragmatist above all else (ideological concerns were usually secondary).
- realusername 2y agoThe soviet ideology was just a coat of paint, functionnally, it was the same as Putin.