> Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, wrote four novels and a number of poems. The first two books (Zabibah and the King and The Fortified Castle) were "Written by He Who Wrote It", a traditional way in Arabic writing to preserve anonymity.
People you didn't know they wrote books.
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Stalin was a very highly regarded poet in Georgia.
I imagine Georgian poetry would feature a lot of sweet tea and niggers
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That's because he purged all the people who didn't like his poetry
hallo, where are the pdfs
stalin's theoretical writing feels like being punched in the forehead.
Wtf I love Saddam Hussein now?
Bullshit. Stalin is probably the most straight forward marxist to read.
Bullshit. Actually, Stalin denied until his death he wrote poetry.
I'm really really really interested in reading these. How to get?
Stalin was not the most straightforward Marxist to read
What's the problem? He's saying that unlike metaphysics, marxism does not hold up any one phenomena up on its own and claims its the absolute truth, and nor can anything be the absolute truth. Nor is there any stasis; everything must be considered in its relations to other things, not as immutable, fundamental objects.
Harper's had a segment of one of Saddam's novels and it was the funniest fucking thing I've ever read. You know that thing that happens to eight year olds where they just really like a particular name, color, or vehicle, so they impose it on every possible scene? Saddam has this bit where he compares the hero to a hawk, compares the speed at which he is riding a horse to a hawk, and then remembers that the name of the horse is "hawk."
Stalin was the one guy in the original bolsheviks who wasn't what we would call a potsmoker. They mocked him for not being a true intellectual and let him be the bookkeeper. Meanwhile, he was the only one who actually knew how anything worked, and after they ruined the country several times over with harebrained schemes, and dodderimg Lenin believed fanmail promising that Britain was in the grip of revolution, he imposed pretty traditional (for a bolshevik) standards.
Is this a test in ahistoricism? Stalin was by no means stupid but he had no theory in him. Trotsky had the most objectively theoretical grounding of the big three, but that's mostly because he refused to even consider reverting to liberal methods (still insane). Stalin seems all together because, of the paucity of theory he did engage with, he was very conservative and with a mind for immediately actionable/soluble concepts instead potential ones.
Saddan was a son of a bitch. Still why didn't we give him pen and paper for him to write some prison literature?
more like he was a very highly regarded moron in georgia
Anyone read Saddam's book On Democracy?
Didnt saddam wrote a quran with hid own blood?
Islam is gay and all but thats arguably quite hardcore and admirable
Islam is cool.