ComradePaulK ,

Well, he still believes the "moderate" bourgeois historians who blame Stalin himself for mismanaging the famine. Was Stalin perfect in handling the ordeal? No, he could not have been, but he was not at fault for the famine. BE is right to say humans have to cause famine in some way (since natural conditions alone cannot do it), but he ignores the role of Western imperialists and internal saboteurs in aggravating the situation. Thus, he still has these anti-communist, petty-bourgeois views that make him worthy of much skepticism.

I'm watching his video on the PCP right now, and the fact that he rather uncritically uses the state-backed "Truth and Reconciliation committee" when other scholars disagree with it says something.

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