did anybody here read this?
I didn't
>>25163965ok
>>25163917"On the Road" is my favorite story in the collection.
>>25164575is it the one where a sherrif and his apprentice take down a camp of hoboes called "nowhere"?
>>25163917I read this one.It was ok.Most "soviet alt history" stuff just says the same thing: existentialism + rehabilitation.
>>25164636i just think the idea "what if america was communist instead of russia during the cold war" has a lot of potential IMO but it seems like the authors of the OP book don't even understand american history that well, let alone soviet history, so the book falls apart even at the conceptual level
>>25164621No, that's "Tom Joad". "On the Road" was about a British tour of post-Soviet USA.
>>25164747>don't even understand American history that well, let alone soviet historyI'm no expert, but I think that a country that never accepted the Illustration values is more prone to fall into Communism. Russia and USA never did.
>>25164747again>what if... = existentialism + rehabilitationIt's fun to play around with, but it's vehicularly anti-essential, anti-ontic, and anti-real.the teleology of it for the Marxist idea to save face intellectually by saying that if we just threw the idea into a different system at a different time, it would've worked as intended (by the author): alt history revisionism.fun, but everything has an aim.
>>25164780>it would've worked as intended (by the author)time machine stories are more directly personal with this (senti)mentality.
>>25164780>the teleology of it for the Marxist idea to save face intellectually by saying that if we just threw the idea into a different system at a different time, it would've worked as intended (by the author): alt history revisionismthat's not what i was trying to get at, whatever
>>25164806my bad then.that's what I get from most of it.
