{"product":{"product_id":"0813332893","title":"The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One)","price":"13.48","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41N-vCN4AbL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813332893"},"comments":[{"body":"\u0026gt; Some basic math will tell you that when you start near zero and increase 4 times and you are still at 1/4, that’s not a good thing. \r\n\r\nThe Chinese sure think it is because they are living WAY better than their parents did. Meanwhile, you expect American to be happy not getting a raise and doing worse off than their parents. Good luck. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Quickly approaching?!?\r\n\r\nNext 10-20 years. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Your rebuttals on these topics are substantively lacking. There’s no evidence to suggest that anything you are saying results in the overall good of the people. Communism is authoritarian, rights of the people be damned.\r\n\r\nCapitalism is authoritarian, rights of the people be damned. Wages are evidence. Hundreds of millions of Chinese being lifted out of poverty is evidence. It’s a fact. Sorry. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;You say what freedom means to you but it’s not freedom at all. It’s giving up control of your life for the appearance of security. Understand that is the fundamental flaw of communism. People give up every last right to the government so they will be taken care of. \r\n\r\nI don’t think being in poverty is a right. I don’t think dying of cancers because you can’t afford it is a right. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;You are worried about going broke fighting cancer, yet communist governments have killed millions of their own people who didn’t disagree with them. \r\n\r\nCool let’s do the part where no one goes broke fighting cancer without killing millions of people. Problem solved. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;It’s still happening to this day in China. \r\n\r\nTotal nonsense. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;Benjamin Franklin once said: \"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.\"\r\n\r\nExcept I’ve seen how your side treats this: the patriot Act, NSA surveillance, arresting Muslims, cracking down on protesters. No thanks. \r\n\r\n\u0026gt;https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893\r\n\r\nHe got his cancer cured by the Soviets.","subreddit_name":"LouderWithCrowder","author":"OneReportersOpinion"},{"body":"\u0026gt; You're wrong. Read a book\r\n\r\nYou mean like [The Gulag Archipelago](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893)?\r\n\r\nGet fucked tankie. God damn fucking genocide apologist and mass murder sympathizer.","subreddit_name":"pics","author":"Parrrite"},{"body":"Let me save you and u/notsoviet from some time reading (I'm not telling you shouldn't read these to make an idea but still).\r\n\r\nPeople here are mainly thinking about the fact that they were given homes and a job with no effort at all (they didn't actually own these homes, they were actually paying some form of a rent but it was actually insignificant).\r\n\r\nThey remember now less about the cold from their own appartments, the lack of some things at certain hours (electricity, gas, television), the censorship, the lack of even the most basic goods at the stores, the continuous reprisal of human rights and the humiliation done by the regime to justify their power.\r\n\r\nHere is some books to read for anyone putting the madness of the communist regime in doubt:\r\n\r\n* [The Gulag Archipelago](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\r\n\r\n* The Most Beloved of the Earthlings by Marin Preda (couldn't find an english translation)","subreddit_name":"europe","author":"TheConquistaa"},{"body":"If you think there is any indoctrination going on than you dont really understand history my friend. I suggest you look into the soviet union and how they indoctrinated their people. [Here is a fantastic place to start](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-v-1/dp/0813332893)\r\n\r\nDid you know that 1 in 3 people in Soviet eastern germany was a government informer? that is what true indoctrination is. Not the imperfect western democracy that we live in.\r\n\r\nI also think to believe that brexit only happened because of media indoctrination is disingenuous and completely disregards peoples free will and inclination to vote for it. If you do this than you are not truly interested in a free society because you believe that other peoples different opinions are not genuine. \r\n\r\n\r\nId actually argue that technology will make it more likely for a 1984 society to happen, We are already heading towards a system of media content that tailors itself to each an every individual, so at some point we wont be choosing what we see etc but an algorithim will.","subreddit_name":"grime","author":"Ungface"},{"body":"So [this Nobel Prize book](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893) is a bunch of made up American propaganda?","subreddit_name":"Anarcho_Capitalism","author":"PatricioINTP"},{"body":"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess\\_mortality\\_in\\_the\\_Soviet\\_Union\\_under\\_Joseph\\_Stalin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin)\r\n\r\n[https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893)\r\n\r\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504\\_Kolyma\\_Highway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway)\r\n\r\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\\_Leap\\_Forward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward)\r\n\r\n[https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastrophe/dp/0802779239](https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastrophe/dp/0802779239)","subreddit_name":"StateofDecay2","author":"onehundredcheetahs"},{"body":"Some basic math will tell you that when you start near zero and increase 4 times and you are still at 1/4, that’s not a good thing. Quickly approaching?!?\r\n\r\nYour rebuttals on these topics are substantively lacking. There’s no evidence to suggest that anything you are saying results in the overall good of the people. Communism is authoritarian, rights of the people be damned. \r\n\r\nYou say what freedom means to you but it’s not freedom at all. It’s giving up control of your life for the appearance of security. Understand that is the fundamental flaw of communism. People give up every last right to the government so they will be taken care of. You are worried about going broke fighting cancer, yet communist governments have killed millions of their own people who didn’t disagree with them. It’s still happening to this day in China. You look at the idea of communism and compare it to the reality of capitalism. There is a reality of communism, and it’s ugly. Try reading some history books, it never turns out this way. Please, for the sake your future and your children’s future, read some of the sources below. \r\n\r\nBenjamin Franklin once said: \"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.\"\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893\r\n\r\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/11/07/lessons-from-a-century-of-communism/%3foutputType=amp\r\n\r\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/why-communism-failed/amp\r\n\r\nhttps://www.policyed.org/human-prosperity-project-socialism-and-free-market-capitalism/why-communism-failed-and-liberal/video","subreddit_name":"LouderWithCrowder","author":"DrOliverClozov"},{"body":"\u0026gt;is there evidence on it either way?\r\n\r\n[Read this.](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/the-great-leveler)\r\n\r\nThe short answer is no.\r\n\r\nThe long answer is that the only way to correct income inequality is through a horsemen: Natural Disaster, Famine, War, Pestilence. Anything that causes mass death fixes it because people invest into different talents that are worth more to a society, and thus they become richer than others. It's a naturally occurring problem because we are not all the same, and we do not all do the same work, and so bringing everyone down is the only way. This has been true throughout human history, if you could make something that no one else could, or if you were a connection point for wealth (such as a bank or trader) you were rich because that connection point is valuable.\r\n\r\nThere are many problems in this world that are consequence to the fact that we live and work. The only way to change it would be to force people not to work, we did that and [it didn't end very well.](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893)","subreddit_name":"AskLibertarians","author":"GingerJack76"},{"body":"\u0026gt;Going to need some evidence for that one.  Was it similar to that which is practiced today?\r\n\r\nFair enough. It's not just similar, but it was founded by the same people. The Marxists moved out of Russia and became the post modernists, changing their attack from government to \"the slow march through the academy.\"\r\n\r\n1- [https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893)\r\n\r\n2- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47w3p1](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47w3p1)\r\n\r\n3- [https://quillette.com/2019/01/03/the-frankfurt-school-and-postmodern-philosophy/](https://quillette.com/2019/01/03/the-frankfurt-school-and-postmodern-philosophy/)\r\n\r\nTo start.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; As financially, emotionally and socially stable as possible. All of these things work together to create a balance. If that balance is tipped too far in either direction, someone is harmed. \r\n\r\nWait, now we're talking *stability*? What if they are stably in poverty? Slavery? That can't be well-being.","subreddit_name":"AskAChristian","author":"Modred189"},{"body":"You do realize it's an article ABOUT a book right? What do you want an Amazon link so you can purchase it for yourself?\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/001-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893","subreddit_name":"youtubehaiku","author":"Tunadude"},{"body":"[The Gulag Archipelago](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813332893/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mSuuCb85ZS826)\r\n\r\n[Infidel: My Life](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743289692/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1PuuCb3E56F2N)","subreddit_name":"booksuggestions","author":"Userdk2"},{"body":"Read this book:\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/001-Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-v/dp/0813332893\r\n\r\nHe won a nobel prize for his work. It'll help a lot.","subreddit_name":"ukpolitics","author":"DrRedOrDead"},{"body":"Here's a book explaining it.  https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893\r\n\r\nAnd another. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1503000634\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=black+book+of+communism\r\n\r\nThere are thousands more.\r\n","subreddit_name":"reactiongifs","author":"[deleted]"},{"body":"\u0026gt;Και από τον ~~Στάλιν~~ Χίτλερ δεν θυμάστε παρά μόνο τα εγκλήματά του... Το μόνο που δεν άκουσα γι' αυτόν είναι ότι με το πρωινό του έτρωγε τηγανητό ανθρώπινο κρέας. Για κείνον τον ~~Στάλιν~~ Χίτλερ, τον Αρχιστράτηγο ~~του Κόκκινου Στρατού~~ της Βέρμαχτ με τις νίκες ~~στο Στάλινγκραντ~~ στην Πολωνία, ~~στη Μόσχα~~ στη Γαλλία, ~~στο Λένινγκραντ~~ στην Γιουγκοσλαβία και ~~στο Βερολίνο~~ στην Ελλάδα, δεν έχετε τίποτα να πείτε; Αν έλειπε ~~ο Κόκκινος Στρατός~~ η Βέρμαχτ και ο ~~Στάλιν~~ Χίτλερ, τι θα είχαμε σήμερα; Αραγε το σκεφτήκατε; Ποιος θα εμπόδιζε τον ~~Χίτλερ~~ Στάλιν να γεμίσει την υφήλιο με χιλιάδες ~~Αουσβιτς~~ Γκουλάγκ; Φαντάζεστε την Ελλάδα γεμάτη με στρατόπεδα εξόντωσης; \r\n\r\n[**Stalin did nothing wrong**](http://www.harunyahya.com/image/communist_ambush/Kidnapped.jpg)\r\n\r\nΤο πρόβλημα δεν είναι η αντικομμουνιστική (ή αντιναζιστική ή αντιολοκληρωτικη γενικότερα) υστερία, το πρόβλημα είναι οτι [ξεχνάμε](https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893) [τα εγκλήματα τους](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) και πολύ φοβάμαι οτι γι'αυτό οδεύουμε να τα επαναλάβουμε.\r\n\r\nΞέρουμε *φίλε* Μίκη, αντικομμουνιστές σε στείλαν εξορία για τις ιδέες σου και την δράση σου. Αυτό που ξέχασαν τα συντρόφια να σου πούνε όμως είναι πως περισσότερα κοινά έχεις με τα [θύματα του κομμουνισμού](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_affair) παρά με τα κομμούνια που υπερασπίζεσαι.","subreddit_name":"greece","author":"gr_Uphill"},{"body":"https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0813332893\r\n\r\nRead this book and after if you can honestly say you still have the same opinion, I will concede. You can also give me a similar task. I have read a lot of Marx's work already though.\r\n\r\nedit: also try this https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Question-Karl-Marx/dp/1507828152 and see how this fucker was a huge anti-semite and racist.","subreddit_name":"worldnews","author":"AlcoholicSmurf"}]}