Threads of Dr. Bair @threadsdrbair

An account to retweet the long threads from @asatarbair, organized for your reading convenience youtube.com/asatarbair Joined November 2020

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

3 years ago

comrades, some of my tweets have been liked >1000 times. kind of awesome how popular communism can be right? here's a thread of my most popular tweets 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

3 years ago

Will Sanctions on Russia Achieve US Objectives or Backfire? A thread on my latest piece in the International Magazine internationalmagz.com

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Fascism finds an easy time taking root because its underlying philosophy is both simple and supported by thousands of years of western thought: might makes right. The strong can and should dominate the weak 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

The USSR, medical care, medical personnel, and the role of women doctors: a thread 1/x Soviet socialism achieved remarkable advances in the overall health of the population, including

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

What is fascism? Definitions of fascism are almost always framed in liberal terms: as being about culture, politics, the press, free speech, dissent – anything but class struggle. This is odd, because fascism is first and foremost about class struggle 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

My latest article for @TheIntlMagz is a year in review piece looking at the US and China. This thread will give you the whole article, but if you can, please subscribe and support this excellent Marxist-Leninist magazine internationalmagz.com/magazine 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

Economic Development in Afghanistan: A Socialist Perspective, an article I wrote for the International, 12th issue, a thread 1/x internationalmagz.com/magazine

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

The human-centered economic successes of socialist Cuba: a thread based on my article in The International, 8/15/21 issue internationalmagz.com/magazine

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

@basedLibertea @bidetmarxman Famines are a consequence of the maldistribution of land and natural resources, common in most agric-based societies, such as Russia and China, where >90% of the pop was in agriculture at the time of their revolutions

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

One of the major narratives supporting capitalism is that anyone can be a capitalist, so if you’re not one, you should shut up about the evils of capitalism and start hustling. Let’s examine what is a capitalist and what are your chances of becoming one a thread 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

I heard the idea today that to ignore Stalin is simply smart politics, and to drag his name out all the time just gets in the way of the movement. I’m afraid I cannot see how. a thread 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

Why the political compass is garbage: a thread 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

Debt and imperialism, a thread 1/x The logic of using debt for economic development is fundamentally sound, provided the right conditions are met. Let’s say that an infrastructure project will raise economic growth and result in higher economic growth

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

People say I 'idolize' Stalin. Not true, I hold a fair and balanced view. The man was neither savior nor saint, but he was, at once, a very successful revolutionary, a great contributor to Marxist theory, and said to be a great listener and collaborator during discussions

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

My new friends, I defend Stalin because of the results achieved by Soviet socialism for the masses of ordinary working people, including a massive increase in life expectancy (one of history's most rapid in fact), dramatic decreases in infant mortality, and improved health

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

I hope it is obvious, but whenever you criticize a country -- particularly when you use terms like ‘evil’, ‘monster’, and ‘genocide’ --- you are implicitly arguing that your own country does not do the same or worse. A thread, 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

Most communists started off as liberals, and so most of us have an ‘origin story’, a moment where we began to be radicalized, which led us down a path where we acquired greater knowledge and perspective about the real history of socialism 1/x #Stalin

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

I’d like to comment on what is perhaps the most widely-seen image representing the supposed ‘Uyghur genocide’ in Xinjiang, China 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

China stands accused of engaging in ‘authoritarian repression’ in Xinjiang. Let’s examine the evidence. A thread 1/x

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Dr. Asatar Bair @asatarbair

4 years ago

Propaganda is the most powerful when it is able to operate unperceived, in assumptions you didn’t even know you were making. One such is that those who teach at elite universities in the US are smarter and better scholars than those with similar credentials who do not 1/x