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There's a bunch lectures he gives on YT on the subject but I can't really provide a timestamp since I haven't watched any of them in a while. Loaned the books from the library too so I'm going from memory anyway.

Stephen Kotkin makes a good argument in his biography of Stalin that forced collectivisation only made sense if Stalin was a genuine Marxist. He had all the power already, increasing grain harvests, things were going well, yet he jeopardised his rule and the whole of the USSR by forcing...

But it does by virtue of them proposing it. Like Stalin thought that by eliminating private property and free markets in agriculture ie. forced collectivisation, productivity would increase, more grain could be exported funding industrialisation, increasing mechanisation in agriculture further...

If there's going to be a utopian society along the lines of anarchism or communism, I'd say it's more likely to be via technological advance. A violent revolution to that end would just end up in the opposite.

I can understand that you draw a comparison with one of the worst things one can do to another person and something you (general you) vehemently disagree with. Found this clip of Stephen Kotkin and I'd say it encapsulates the problems within communism pretty well: Ie. Marxism/socialism gives...

But rape is a physical violation of a sexual nature. Is a mugging rape? The government taxing me against my will maybe as well? Maybe you'd be better served to just call socialism 'theft' or something.

Maybe one of the primary things that made socialist revolution in most of the more industrially developed Europe unlikely was that they had instituted land reforms that made tenant farmers from likely supporters of social revolution into a conservative bulwark against revolution. Marxists...