Oh I understand how frustrating it can be to discuss things that even the authors seemed uncertain on how to proceed.
Maybe what I fear is that the kind of fruitful discussion on this before became lost in the increasingly huge annals of Reds! in this site. On the other hand, maybe even more discussion will just get the ideas presented in the past to become even more buried behind the tons of pages of discussion.
Of course I am not saying that let's open the gates of discussion once again to the type of discussing what is going to happen in the Cold War itself, if it doesn't going to make any sense and it's just going to be fruitless. A discussion of postwar or even pre-Revolution era (especially in relation to other parts of the world) can probably suffice
if it is only going to relate to the 1930s revisions gap and more importantly, to World War II itself.
I think it's also important to stay on focus to the current era so that we can properly set the stage for the latter era (which needs to be on its own thread).
I just don't want to have a strictly no discussion on other eras, even if I can relate it to the current focus on World War II. For example, I am thinking of a lot of stuff in relation to Asian pre-World War II history that may fill in the gaps and even help in the current discussion of World War II. We can only look to the history of Indian communism, Chinese and Indochinese communism, the Philippine Communist Party, and the Japanese socialist and communist movements. Maybe we need a bigger role for these institutions for the World War II struggle to become even more awesome. After all, we are still not even 25% finished on the current era. Maybe I can catch it up. There's no doubt that I have to touch on the historical background which goes pre-1933. That's off limits then? I don't think it should be. I am just getting the impression that when IP wanted to talk more of the revolution era stuff, he was being stopped because it's not World War II stuff. I'm sure that the current focus now is a World War II update (I can't wait, man
), but it's not like IP is going to make an update himself. He's just going to explain things, though he did a great deal of it already before. I just enjoyed how he explain things.
But World War II related material it should be. I'm afraid that I have yet to collect my mind on how to propose stuff. In the end, maybe I don't need to be. I just want to see an update first. Hehehe.
