...I doubt it, in Russia they mostly use sunflower oil in their cooking.
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...I doubt it, in Russia they mostly use sunflower oil in their cooking.
Ray Peat seems to have leftist/communist sympathies. I believe he described himself as an anarchist and most anarchists are in league with communists. If I understand correctly his views of Stalin are based on Grover Furr?
This view is quite a contradiction and flies in the face of Ray Peat’s anti-authoritarianism views. Let’s entertain the idea that Stalin was a “good” leader... how is that okay when you establish one of the most authoritarian regimes in human history? How is it okay when you murder your political rivals, hold sham political trials, and crush dissent? Again I repeat this is a contradiction to his ideas against authoritarianism.
I’ve also heard Ray speak ill of libertarianism which strongly opposes centralized authority and staunchly promotes the freedom of speech that we all are seeing suppressed including in the works of Ray Peat himself.
The fact is the USSR was a brutal system if you love freedom because communism takes away your natural rights to property and expression and forces you into an unnatural arrangement where a powerful authority governs almost every aspect of your life.
I also believe it’s no longer contrarian to see communism or the USSR in a positive light as we have had the cultural Marxists through the Frankfurt school (professor Herbert Marcuse et al) indoctrinate our generations through public education.
I learned about communism through my own reading, reading Karl Marx writings, biographies, and history and being astonished at the duplicity of our education and media. I also witnessed the soul crushing fruits of communism, and not as tourist on a guided tour in the USSR...
You’re obviously a communist fan, typical of those growing comfie in the west who fall for the wonderful promises of alleviating poverty and racism and discrimination that are all the rage nowadays in the most privileged generation. You lived and grew up in the west? Ever travel much?As for the rest of your post wow... This is such a distorted and self misguided view.
And a 3rd grader could read and understand the texts of Karl Marx, you have not seen the full side of any picture.
You witnessed the soul crushing fruits of the dissolution and dissociation from the USSR my friend.
And a 3rd grader could read and understand the texts of Karl Marx, you have not seen the full side of any picture.
Quite a conjecture. No, instead the reality is Eastern Europe and Central Asia learned Russian. This includes the occupied and suppressed nations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (the one Britain went to war with Germany over), Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, etc etc.Because without him every European Asian and North African would know German
Communist revolution? How so?Trotsky and his ilk were bankrolled by Jacob Schiff and other wall street bankers. He was brought to New York on a first class ticket (he lied and said it was 3rd class but his ticket was discovered). They gave him an American passport to send him to Russia. Why would capitalist oligarchs of Wall Street support a communist revolution for an ally?
He didn't speak ill of libertarianism, which is anarchist/ communist, he spoke ill of the pseudo-libertarians or ancaps.I’ve also heard Ray speak ill of libertarianism which strongly opposes centralized authority and staunchly promotes the freedom of speech that we all are seeing suppressed including in the works of Ray Peat himself
Most of his political thoughts have been tried, happened and still happen; in very anti-authorithatian societies.What I find disturbing in some members of this forum is that they believe that a man who is a genius in one field is also a genius in others. RP is a genius in Biology and nutrition. He may also be a Marxist, a communist, a anarchist, etc., but his personal and intellectual beliefs in those fields shouldn't be taken as bona fide, tried and true dogmas to accept and digest the same way as his nutritional information. It's like reading a popular novel with the same reverence as The Old Man and the Sea, or listening to a country/western singers belt out a Verdi Aria, or viewing a RP painting with the same awe as one by Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper, or even Frida Kahlo.
Communist revolution? How so?
Trotsky was supporting a communist revolution?! Then Trotsky was really trying to achieve a stateless, classless and capital-less society, this opinion is a very contrarian one which most capitalists and socialists experts don't agree.
He didn't speak ill of libertarianism, which is anarchist/ communist, he spoke ill of the pseudo-libertarians or ancaps.
Most of his political thoughts have been tried, happened and still happen; in very anti-authorithatian societies.
His views on politics are totally connected and correspondent to his philosophical views, including politics, if you think that his political views are nonsense then if you don't view his science/ biologic approach as also nonsense, you're the one misunderstanding and creating paradoxes
About Trotsky,Why is it that Trotsky refers to himself and his ilk as “Marxists” several times in his memoirs and that they wanted an internationalist revolution but to achieve that they needed to have a revolution in Europe? (https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/mylife/1930-lif.pdf)
Why don’t you tell me what Trotsky and Lenin were trying to achieve? If it wasn’t a revolution towards communist/socialism than what was it? Did they not collectivize the farms and industries? What do you call that then?
In the couple of instances of interviews and a podcast (this spring with Roddy/Georgi) I’ve heard him speaking ill of libertarians, he specifically used the word “libertarian” and I did not hear any clarification of pseudo-libertarian or ancap. Could you point me to that so I can correct myself?
About Trotsky,
Peat said something like: he is a fascist traitor and ideologically aligned with the CIA.
Guess what? Stalin was very responsible for his banishment and was because of treason, later he was killed.
Deliberation Makes People Consistently Selfish
Deliberation Makes People Consistently Selfish
92% Of Polled Russians Want To Return To The USSR
IDK well USSR, if you believe that Stalin/ Lenin/ Trotsky seized control over the means of production and what people should do, then it wasn't socialist but a dictatorship/ fascist. True communism humanity wouldn't support a State Socialism nor the oxymoron State Communism.
Peat has even spoken some good about some capitalistic "libertarians", Roddy Authoritarian Podcast, has it. As I said before, libertarianism, as most words now, its meaning was distorted.
A lot of those had Russians to begin with ( Ukraine ).Quite a conjecture. No, instead the reality is Eastern Europe and Central Asia learned Russian. This includes the occupied and suppressed nations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (the one Britain went to war with Germany over), Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, etc etc.
There’s no happy face emoticons for that.
An relaxed reply,Thank you for the clarifications, I have only started listening to some of Roddy’s interviews with Peat this year. Not sure how representative those polls are but the corruption in Russia has been so bad I imagine many Russians look back to the late USSR days fondly, especially in light of the Glasnost era.
The CIA/Trotsky connection doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. First of all the CIA and even its predecessor the OSS didn’t exist until years after the Trotsky was murdered. Also what kind of anti-authoritarian nation sends assassins to a foreign country to murder a rival rather than extradite them and hold an open and civil trial? I’m beginning to find these assertions to be quite absurd in order to fit a narrative.
Let’s say that Stalin didn’t commit genocide, mass murder, and brutally suppress intellectuals and dissidents as is commonly held. There are after all contrarians in regards to Holocaust history despite the legal and social consequences. Perhaps they are right about Stalin since we as humans typically accept things at face value. However we’re still talking about an unelected (by the populace) life-long dictator who overturned many nations and brought no freedom of speech or press or criticism to his people and destroyed his rivals at best. Ray Peat is on record now as saying he was a “good leader.” The irony is that if Ray Peat was a contrarian in the USSR during Stalin he likely would have been imprisoned, executed, or exiled for contradicting the ideas of the state.
Peat is excellent in pointing out the contrary point of view in physiology but when it comes to political history...
Could Ray Peat intentionally and on purpose adopt outrageous positions on some sensible topics like Aids (not being caused by HIV), iodine (refuses to look at the statistics of Japanese thyroid diseases), melatonin supplements (says it's bad for health) , all of them positions easily disproved in my opinion, in order to send a subliminal message to his readers "Don't trust anyone's word, not even mine's, without checking by yourself the evidence first ?"
His recent comments about Stalin being an interesting man are so disturbing and hard to believe, I've come to the conclusion Ray intentionally decredibilizes himself in order to take off his back some of the heat associated with his discoveries.
Thoughts ?
is iodine bad? lol
Ray Peat seems to have leftist/communist sympathies. I believe he described himself as an anarchist and most anarchists are in league with communists. If I understand correctly his views of Stalin are based on Grover Furr?
This view is quite a contradiction and flies in the face of Ray Peat’s anti-authoritarianism views. Let’s entertain the idea that Stalin was a “good” leader... how is that okay when you establish one of the most authoritarian regimes in human history? How is it okay when you murder your political rivals, hold sham political trials, and crush dissent? Again I repeat this is a contradiction to his ideas against authoritarianism.
I’ve also heard Ray speak ill of libertarianism which strongly opposes centralized authority and staunchly promotes the freedom of speech that we all are seeing suppressed including in the works of Ray Peat himself.
The fact is the USSR was a brutal system if you love freedom because communism takes away your natural rights to property and expression and forces you into an unnatural arrangement where a powerful authority governs almost every aspect of your life.
I also believe it’s no longer contrarian to see communism or the USSR in a positive light as we have had the cultural Marxists through the Frankfurt school (professor Herbert Marcuse et al) indoctrinate our generations through public education.
I learned about communism through my own reading, reading Karl Marx writings, biographies, and history and being astonished at the duplicity of our education and media. I also witnessed the soul crushing fruits of communism, and not as tourist on a guided tour in the USSR...
That is riduculous! I think the devil is interesting it doesn't mean I like him.Could Ray Peat intentionally and on purpose adopt outrageous positions on some sensible topics like Aids (not being caused by HIV), iodine (refuses to look at the statistics of Japanese thyroid diseases), melatonin supplements (says it's bad for health) , all of them positions easily disproved in my opinion, in order to send a subliminal message to his readers "Don't trust anyone's word, not even mine's, without checking by yourself the evidence first ?"
His recent comments about Stalin being an interesting man are so disturbing and hard to believe, I've come to the conclusion Ray intentionally decredibilizes himself in order to take off his back some of the heat associated with his discoveries.
Thoughts ?
Could Ray Peat intentionally and on purpose adopt outrageous positions on some sensible topics like Aids (not being caused by HIV), iodine (refuses to look at the statistics of Japanese thyroid diseases), melatonin supplements (says it's bad for health) , all of them positions easily disproved in my opinion, in order to send a subliminal message to his readers "Don't trust anyone's word, not even mine's, without checking by yourself the evidence first ?"
His recent comments about Stalin being an interesting man are so disturbing and hard to believe, I've come to the conclusion Ray intentionally decredibilizes himself in order to take off his back some of the heat associated with his discoveries.
Thoughts ?
Why are you on this forum if you feel that way? We aren't looking to be converted. Isn't there plenty of other place you can go to try and make friends?Could Ray Peat intentionally and on purpose adopt outrageous positions on some sensible topics like Aids (not being caused by HIV), iodine (refuses to look at the statistics of Japanese thyroid diseases), melatonin supplements (says it's bad for health) , all of them positions easily disproved in my opinion, in order to send a subliminal message to his readers "Don't trust anyone's word, not even mine's, without checking by yourself the evidence first ?"
His recent comments about Stalin being an interesting man are so disturbing and hard to believe, I've come to the conclusion Ray intentionally decredibilizes himself in order to take off his back some of the heat associated with his discoveries.
Thoughts ?