The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

Photo: One photo from a montage of scenes from the life of the Soviet GULAG prison camps system, circa 1920s–1950s.


The "[l]iterary historian George Watson cited an 1849 article written by Friedrich Engels called 'The Hungarian Struggle' and published in Marx's journal Neue Rheinische Zeitung, stating that the writings of Engels and others show that 'the Marxist theory of history required and demanded genocide for reasons implicit in its claim that feudalism, which in advanced nations was already giving place to capitalism, must in its turn be superseded by socialism. Entire nations would be left behind after a workers' revolution, feudal remnants in a socialist age, and since they could not advance two steps at a time, they would have to be killed. They were racial trash, as Engels called them, and fit only for the dung-heap of history.' "

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The Eurasian Empires of China and Russia and the "blood-soaked" modernization drives of the 20th Century. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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