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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

    Time Event
    12:39a
    Engels - financer of left-fascism
    What a tool

    Of his relationship with the near-illiterate Irish factory girl Mary Burns and – following Mary’s death – with her sister Lizzie....well...perhaps its for the best that we don't know all the gory details of how this racist fox-hunting, Capitalist factory owner fucked his poor working class slaves even more up the arse.

    Engels - MORE ON

    http://marxwords.blogspot.com/

    It tends to be humbling reading experience not because we are asked to believe in a collective human penchant for "evil" (that spares no one including we readers) but that criminal acts seem, all things considered, so often a good idea at the time to these throughly bourgeois 'working-class leaders'.
    So like some historical footnote the 'working-class' crime - any crime is rational - is embedded in a much larger historical sweep which we are all blithely unaware of - any crime is real.
    Like a twig on the shoulder of mighty stream a character in a Marxist fairy story murders someone else and Berkman and Goldman, very much in the third person singular, thereafter tells us the story.

    I think that's very Freudian...
    1:07a
    We few
    We unhappy few

    Were there any anarchists tracking the violent movements of the lunar-right then what couldn't they do , why this very night!
    Why they could alert the 'Anarchoblogs' website that ' Left Thought' not two weeks ago was calling for the support of the Liminov favoring site Exile. And encourage others in good standing to act in unison.
    Tell them all that great peril was alive in the heart of Bakunin country. What couldn't such a person with the slightest shred of credibility do? Oh reputation capital where-for-the-hell art thou?

    Is this a dagger which I see before me,
    The handle toward my hand. Come, let me clutch thee;
    I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To feeling as to sight. or art thou but
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
    Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.
    I see thee yet, in form as palpable
    As this which now I draw.
    1:22a
    Slaughterous thoughts
    Political-economy's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.
    And POLICIES affecting the internet can no longer be seen as narrow sectoral telecommunications issues, according to OECD secretary general Angel Gurria.
    "The internet has become a fundamental economic infrastructure, and policies affecting it are now mainstream economics," he told OECD telecommunications ministers attending a meeting on the internet economy in Seoul.
    "We need to know more about the role and contribution of the internet and related technology as drivers of productivity and growth.
    "Central to this is analysing the increasingly important role of the internet in the innovation process, which is lowering barriers and broadening collaboration and the exchange of ideas."
    Because this infrastructure had become critical to economies and societies, "we should all engage in developing better, more broad-based governance arrangements and policies", Mr Gurria said.
    "A more decentralised, networked approach to policy formulation for the internet economy that includes the active participation of stakeholders needs to be the norm."
    One of the most pressing needs for harnessing "the wisdom of the crowds" lies with addressing climate change, Mr Gurria said.
    "It is clear we need to change government, business and individual behaviour on a massive scale, and the internet is a powerful tool for making this happen," he said.
    As the individual becomes more of a focal point of the internet economy, "it is not a surprise that the internet currency is personal information".
    The OECD recognised the importance of personal data 25 years ago, when it released the privacy guidelines that are the foundation of most nations' privacy laws.
    "The growth of business models built on mining this data and the explosion of social networking sites requires us to understand and analyse changes from an economic and a social perspective," Mr Gurria said.
    "We need to assess our policies and instruments on a global scale, with the active involvement of all stakeholders."
    1:39a
    Well it was 90 years ago today
    Lytton Strachey taught the band to play

    Spin the bottle. 5/9/1918 Lytton Strachey, Engorged Victorians
    On this day in 1918 Lytton Strachey's Engorged Victorians was published. Its four essays -- on Cardinal Manning's penis, Florence Nightingale's cunt, Dr. Thomas Arnold's todger and General Gordon's Field Marshalls 'baton' -- are described by recent biographer Michael Holdroyd as "one of the seminal Bloomsbury texts," a book which "let a sexual genie, gleeful and irreverent, out of the bottle" of biography writing.

    "Come and what come may,
    Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
    2:40a
    To thine own poison be true
    Bolton's piece in the WSJ today on the fascist administration's North Korea capitulation. The wind-up is especially biting:
    'The only good news is that there is little opportunity for the Bush administration to make any further concessions in its waning days in office. But for many erstwhile administration supporters, this is a moment of genuine political poignancy. Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse. Ann Coulter has more patriotic blood in one of her used tampons then they have in they're whole body. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor: this even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice. To our own lips be true as can be lest slip twixt cup and lip."

    Its good news week

    About 900 newspaper jobs were eliminated this week
    Recovering Journalist | Gannett.com
    "Newspapers brought these problems on themselves," writes Mark Potts. "Yeah, the economy's a mess, which is exacerbating the situation. But what's happening to the industry is a massive structural change that might have been avoided–or at least reduced–by smarter management and an understanding of how the Internet is changing the business." || Gannett news exec: "In troubling times in our industry, we are not about to retreat."
    Posted at 9:40:09 AM

    Twain Quote [Byron York]

    Whenever anyone quotes Mark Twain, you have to raise your antennae a little bit, given the number of apocryphal Twain quotes out there.

    Enemies of war criminal McCain are asking America, "do you think a treasonous baby-killer who flies real crappy should be president? Well do you shwerpunkt?!!"

    Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are going to have a meeting. Don King is going to promote. (CNN)
    12:03p
    Mongol revolution
    The headquarters of the former communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in the centre of Ulan Bator was set alight and looted.
    MONGOLIAN President Nambariin Enkhbayar has declared a four-day state of emergency amid violent protests in the capital over alleged rigged elections.
    "From 11.30pm (1.30am AEST) Tuesday there will be a four-day state of emergency," the announcement said.
    It said that there would be a 10pm curfew and anyone on the streets after that time without documentation would be arrested.
    Public gatherings are banned and any such meetings will be broken up, according to the TV announcement, which also includes a ban on media except for Mongolian national TV and state media organisations.
    The action was taken in response to the protests involving thousands of people in Mongolia's capital yesterday, voicing outrage over what they claimed were rigged elections.
    Witnesses said police were forced to fire rubber bullets to quell the violence.
    The headquarters of the former communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) in the centre of Ulan Bator was set alight and looted.
    12:14p
    You hate us
    You really hate us

    One popular community group on the Illinois senator's official MyObama website calls itself "Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama."

    "This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx's writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat," states the groups charter.

    "We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!" exclaims the group's online screed.
    12:26p
    Art censorship latest
    BANGKOK — John T. Bone is in trouble with the Thai authorities again.
    The British pornographer, whose real name is John Gilbert Bowen, was arrested on June 12 in Pattaya, Thailand, in connection with the filming of a gangbang.
    According to Pattaya Daily News, local police got a tip about Bowen's production and raided the apartment where the shoot was happening.
    Police arrested Bowen, along with Joe Macos Perlaila, Morikane, Philipe K. Orivera, Teres Sita Edades, Philipina and Mr. Wittaya Mekwilai. The nationalities of the performers included some Brazilian nationals, as well as local performers. According to the Pattaya Daily News, the performers included local bar girls and transsexual performers.
    Bowen's cast was caught in the middle of performing on a fully equipped set with lights, video and still cameras, lube and boxes of condoms.
    The production and sale of pornography in Thailand is explicitly forbidden.
    Bowen and his performers face up to three years in prison and a fine of up to 6,000 baht, or about $180.
    This isn't Bowen's first brush with the Thai authorities. He was last arrested in April 2007 on similar charges. Police seized movie cameras, sex toys, digital cameras, 300 mini-DV tapes, 200 DVD and VCD adult movies, a customer list and laptop computers. - X Biz news

    Late breaking - White supremacist and neo-Marxist , Barry Obama will call for an expansion of government support for faith-based programs. He's also promised to maintain military spending. What a fucking piece of shit.
    12:44p
    Escape from Guantanamo island
    13 poor Cubans saved after 30 days at sea.

    http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2516287.ece

    The Norwegian gas ship Berge Danuta saved the lives of 13 Cubans who
    have been at sea for 30 days after trying to escape from stalinist
    Cuba. Two women and eleven men had fought against the sea stream and
    brought to the west in the Gulf of Mexico instead at the coast of
    Florida.
    Their rowboat had no rudder, no sail and only one oar. It is obvious
    that this gave them no chance to keep a steady course heading for
    north. That the refugees had only one oar is not due to the rations
    on oars in Cuba. More logic is that they went to sea at night with
    two oars, but lost one or it was damaged.
    The rescue came after 30 hard days at sea in a small boat. The 13
    Cubans are now expecting some weeks in a US immigration jail and
    thereafter maybe work to pick fruits or vegetables on one of the many
    US agriculture factories.
    Anyway, we declare solidarity with those who try to escape from the
    stalinist state-fascism in Cuba.


    Nemo Etomer
    1:21p
    JAVA
    Just Another Vichy Arsehole

    Instead of Marching In Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade, Barack Obama Got A Haircut (HillBuzz)
    Instead of marching in Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade to support LGBT rights in his hometown of Chicago, Barack Obama got a haircut, then went to an elite private club for a steam:.. Surely the haircut could have waited until Monday, so Obama could have marched in the Pride Parade on Sunday. Or, even better, couldn’t he have gotten his haircut at the Pride Parade itself? With 400,000 people in attendance, most of them fabulous, there was bound to be at least one person there who knows how to cut and style hair. - MTA

    Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers. (by Arianna Huffington)
    The Obama brand has always been about inspiration, a new kind of politics, the audacity of hope, and “change we can believe in.” I like that brand. More importantly, voters — especially unlikely voters — like that brand. Pulling it off the shelf and replacing it with a political product geared to pleasing America’s vacillating swing voters — the ones who will be most susceptible to the fear-mongering avalanche that has already begun — would be a fatal blunder. - MTA

    When Will MoveOn Get a Clue? (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter)
    Barack Obama is NO friend to MoveOn. What has Barack Obama ever DONE for MoveOn? Why does MoveOn still put Obama’s photo on its home page and pander to him? Obama attacked MoveOn head-on in his speech [Monday] for its ads criticizing General Petreaus in September 2007… [Emphasis added]

    Obama to expand Bush’s faith based programs
    CHICAGO - Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.
    Because we need to spend more tax money to encourage preachers like the one below.

    Southern Baptist scholar says spousal abuse stems from wife’s refusal to submit to husband. Think Progress)
    Bruce Ware — a Southern Baptist scholar – argued that one reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their husband’s God-given authority: “‘And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged - -or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,’ Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.”

    HUSSEIN - IT RHYMES WITH MORE-OF-THE-SAME
    1:30p
    10,000 PAIRS OF UNDERPANTS
    STASI stored peoples underpants. Believe it or not. ( sear STASILAND by A.Funder @ Amazon)

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A public outcry against Sweden's eavesdropping law reached new heights Monday with protesters sending more than 1 million e-mails to lawmakers, parliamentary officials said.
    The law, narrowly passed by legislators two weeks ago, will let officials eavesdrop on all cross-border e-mail and telephone traffic, in what technology companies have called the most far-reaching communications monitoring plan in Europe. Sweden's government plans to implement it in January.
    Opponents say the law will encroach on privacy and jeopardize civil liberties. Supporters claim it is needed to fight international crime and terrorism.
    Parliamentary spokeswoman Christina Green said protesters had sent 1.1 million e-mails to lawmakers by Monday afternoon, after the Expressen tabloid on Sunday launched an online campaign against the law.
    The legislation gives Sweden's National Defense Radio Establishment the right to scan all phone calls, e-mails and faxes crossing Sweden's borders, without a court order.
    Currently, e-mail and phone surveillance in the Nordic country, known for openness and transparency, requires a court order if police suspect a crime. However, the intelligence agency is allowed to spy on airborne signals, such as radio and satellite traffic, without special permission. END

    Au not only does this kind of spying and Echelon spying but also hosts US spybases. This makes us a legit target for any kind of attack from anyone.
    1:49p
    She may be right
    Ms Thanatogenous

    '...quite a lot of NecRO feeders believe in demonic possession.

    I plead guilty. While defending Derb's right not to believe as I do, I wrote last month:

    the insinuation appears to be that Jindal is a weirdo. The article that is now circulating revolves around an “exorcism” Jindal experienced as an undergraduate at Brown University. While exorcisms should not be tried at home or in your dorm room, it is not breaking news that there is evil in the world...'

    '...Curse You Lopez! [Jonah Goldberg]

    A reader pointed out to me that if you go to the Corner search page and click on a single author but don't enter any search-words, you'll get every Corner post that author has ever made (Chaka: That right?).

    So, it seems I've posted 17,124 times. Kathryn, meanwhile, has posted 23, 833 times...'

    Can you exorcise a Loup Garou like Loopy Lopez?

    Got to be worth trying.
    1:57p
    Deliverance from the tyranny of teeth
    http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee-health-oral-loss-natural-teeth

    #1 West Virginia: 42.8%
    #2 Kentucky: 38.1%
    #3 Tennessee: 32.2%
    #4 Alabama: 31.9%
    #5 Louisiana: 31.3%
    #6 Oklahoma: 31.1%

    Related - The Obama campaign is sending around a statement by John DiIulio, the first head of Bush's faith-based initiative and later of "Mayberry Machiavellis" fame, praising Obama's new faith-based proposal.

    Senator Barack Obama has offered a principled, prudent, and problem-solving vision for the future of community-serving partnerships involving religious nonprofit organizations. He has focused admirably on those groups that supply vital social services to people and communities in need. His plan reminds me of much that was best in both then Vice President Al Gore's and then Texas Governor George W. Bush's respective first speeches on the subject in 1999. Especially in urban America, all the empirical evidence continues to show that local faith-based organizations can make a measurable civic difference. His constitutionally sound and administratively feasible ideas about community-serving partnerships hold special promise for truly disadvantaged children, youth, and families. Many good community-serving initiatives can be built, expanded, or sustained on the common ground that Senator Obama has staked out for us here. He also has a real purty mouth.
    2:08p
    The only thing more wicked...
    ...than the urge to command is the will to obey

    This (via Wikipedia) is a story from the militarized Prussia of 1906:

    On October 16, 1906 Voigt was ready for his next caper. He had purchased parts of used captain's uniforms from different shops and tested their effect on soldiers. He had resigned from the shoe factory ten days previously. He took the uniform out of baggage storage, put it on and went to the local army barracks, stopped four grenadiers and a sergeant on their way back to barracks and told them to come with him. Indoctrinated to obey officers without question, they followed. He dismissed the commanding sergeant to report to his superiors and later commandeered 6 more soldiers from a shooting range. Then he took a train to Köpenick east of Berlin, occupied the local city hall with his soldiers and told them to cover all exits. He told the local Police to "care for law and order" and to "prevent calls to Berlin for one hour" at the local Post Office. He had the treasurer von Wiltberg and mayor Georg Langerhans arrested, supposedly for suspicions of crooked bookkeeping, and confiscated 4002 marks and 37 pfennigs - with a receipt, of course (he signed it with his former jail director's name). Then he commandeered two carriages and told the grenadiers to take the arrestants to the Neue Wache in Berlin for interrogation. He told the remaining guards stand in their places for half an hour and then left for the train station. Later he changed to civilian clothes and had disappeared.

    And this (via the New York Times) is the story of the DEA's America in 2008:

    GERALD, Mo. — Like so many rural communities in the country’s middle, this tiny town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine. Then, several months ago, a federal agent showed up. Busts began. Houses were ransacked. People, in handcuffs on their front lawns, named names. To some, like Mayor Otis Schulte, who considers the county around Gerald, population 1,171, “a meth capital of the United States,” the drug scourge seemed to be fading at last. Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood, from television mainly, to be the law. They said the agent, a man some had come to know as “Sergeant Bill,” boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper made a few calls about that claim, Gerald’s anti-drug campaign abruptly unraveled after less than five months. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding-performing minister, a former small-town cop from 23 miles down the road. Mr. Jakob, 36, is now the subject of a criminal investigation by federal authorities, and is likely to face charges related to impersonating a law enforcement officer, his lawyer said.
    2:53p
    Draft Russ
    Sack Deckchair-Barry - Russ yoda man

    A Message from Sen. Feingold post - '...The outpouring of support from you and across the country, in letters and e-mails and phone calls and the blogs has been absolutely fantastic. It really made a difference, as we mounted a challenge this week that almost nobody thought could work. We did stop this thing for now -- it is delayed until after the July 4th weekend.
    I teased some of my colleagues...I said, we can celebrate the constitution on July 4th, and when we come back maybe you'll decide not to tear it up....I'm deeply grateful for your support...' - Kos
    3:37p
    McCain declares war
    Potential next president, Jean Claude Le McCain today declared war on the 'Straights of Hormuz'. He claimed these straights threatened the constitutional right of all Americans to get married. Jean Claude was speaking in France where he was inspecting an Aerospatial factory for the pentagon. He also declared that ' As your president Le McCain I promise two croissants in every garage and a nuclear power station besides every river.'
    4:30p
    Trust yr local reverend
    '...the temperature of the Eemian interglacial about 125,000 years ago was persistently above that of our times for several thousand years (oldest data is on the right). Hansen tells us that when the temperature was 1-2C higher than now during the Eemian the sea level was 4-6 meters higher...'

    Looks like its OK to trust Chuck0's grrlfriend then - y'kin all come back now y'hear!
    4:43p
    Anarchist shopping
    Self-styled anarchists claimed responsibility yesterday for raiding a supermarket in the Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni and then distributing the stolen goods to shoppers at a fruit and vegetable market in the fourth such incident during the last month. A group of some 20 people, all wearing hoods or helmets, entered the Marinopoulos supermarket on Evdoxou Street, loaded up trolleys with food and simply walked out of the store unchallenged.
    4:45p
    Full court press
    Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter'
    By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
    June 30, 2008
    Consortium News
    To understand this extraordinary development, historians might want to look back at the 1980s and examine the Iran-Contra scandal’s “lost chapter,” a narrative describing how Ronald Reagan’s administration brought CIA tactics to bear domestically to reshape the way Americans perceived the world.

    That chapter – which we are publishing here for the first time – was “lost” because Republicans on the congressional Iran-Contra investigation waged a rear-guard fight that traded elimination of the chapter’s key findings for the votes of three moderate GOP senators, giving the final report a patina of bipartisanship.
    Under that compromise, a few segments of the draft chapter were inserted in the final report’s Executive Summary and in another section on White House private fundraising, but the chapter’s conclusions and its detailed account of how the “perception management” operation worked ended up on the editing room floor.
    The American people thus were spared the chapter’s troubling finding: that the Reagan administration had built a domestic covert propaganda apparatus managed by a CIA propaganda and disinformation specialist working out of the National Security Council.
    “One of the CIA’s most senior covert action operators was sent to the NSC in 1983 by CIA Director [William] Casey where he participated in the creation of an inter-agency public diplomacy mechanism that included the use of seasoned intelligence specialists,” the chapter’s conclusion stated.

    Read more @ Consortium News
    9:38p
    Jews sans frontiers
    If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew By Mike Marqusee
    Verso Books. Reviewed by ASHER
    In recent years, there has been a rise in explicitly Jewish anti-Zionist publishing and organising. Jews, both within Israel and in the diaspora, are increasingly moving away from a more passive, silent anti-Zionism towards outspoken attempts at engagement with the wider Jewish community, where a pervasive Zionism is the default political belief for most.
    Mike Marqusee’s work follows in this trend, most recently seen downunder in Antony Loewenstein’s My Israel Question (Melbourne University Publishing, 2006). Where Loewenstein focussed on Australian media and political parties’ representations of Israel, and contained a wider history, analysis and critique of Israeli policies, however, Marqusee takes a much more personal stance.
    Read the rest of the review at Scoop Review Of Books, and feel free to comment on it on either (or both) website(s). - ANARCHOBLOGS
    9:43p
    Skinhead judges attack Roma
    Prejudice against gypsies acceptable, say judges John Hooper in Rome
    July 2, 2008
    ITALY'S highest appeal court has ruled that it is acceptable to discriminate
    against gypsies on the grounds that they are thieves.
    The judgment comes amid a nationwide clampdown on gypsies, also known as
    Roma, by the Government of Silvio Berlusconi. Last week the Interior
    Minister, Roberto Maroni, announced plans to fingerprint all of Italy's
    Roma, including children.
    The ruling, which appears to provide judicial backing for the Government's
    policies, was handed down in March but reported only on Monday. The judges
    overthrew the conviction of six defendants who signed a leaflet demanding
    the expulsion of Verona's Gypsies in 2001.
    Among those convicted of racially discriminatory propaganda was Flavio Tosi,
    an official of the anti-immigrant Northern League, who has since become
    Mayor of Verona. He was quoted by a witness at his trial as having said
    afterwards: "The gypsies must be ordered out because, wherever they arrive,
    there are robberies."
    The Court of Cassation decided this did not show Mr Tosi was a racist, but
    that he had "a deep aversion [to Roma] that was not determined by the Gypsy
    nature of the people discriminated against, but by the fact that all the
    gypsies were thieves". His dislike of them was "not therefore based on a
    notion of superiority or racial hatred, but on racial prejudice".
    The judges scrapped the two-month jail sentences and ordered that the case
    be reheard.
    Their ruling was published hours before police in Verona arrested eight Roma
    of Croatian origin accused of having induced minors to carry out burglaries.
    The arrests were co-ordinated by the prosecutor who charged Mr Tosi and the
    others seven years ago.
    Franco Frattini, the Foreign Affairs Minister, who until earlier this year
    was the European Union's commissioner for justice and human rights,
    applauded the fingerprinting, saying: "These things are done in many other
    European countries."
    He added that the main beneficiaries would be Roma children at risk of being
    forced to break the law.

    ( Not sure if they are really skinheads - but it could get the attention of some pseudo-'anarchists' who seem to think the state is above criticism )
    9:59p
    So much for Spain, anarchism
    '...Since then ( 1918), the working class has not been in the position where making a revolution was a case of pressing objective necessity...'

    Greg Ablokeimet

    http://www.leftwrites.net/2008/05/28/masocialistprayermeeting/

    And this rotten little neo-Leninist shit is posing as an anarchist! He's the left-wings Bill White!
    Virtually any idiot can and does spout unmitigated garbage as “Anarchism” without fear of being told they’re wrong. MORE ON

    '...Since the Left, as the conscious part of the working class movement, is an essential actor in a social revolution (unconscious movements may make a February Revolution, but never an October one), the second priority of the Left should be general propaganda for communism and against capitalism. SAlt is actually pretty good at this...'

    And this different from Marxism...how?

    '...If Lenin came back today, he would spit on most groups which describe themselves as Leninist. He would tear strips off them for class collaboration and for subordinating themselves to reformists...'

    I think he has come back in a small way.
    10:33p
    The Ghoul
    '...I’m reminded of the fact that Lenin, in 1915 in Switzerland, trying to educate groups of young Swiss, German and Austrian socialists, observed that while the socialist revolution might eventually come, he probably wouldn’t live to see it. Yet a mere three years later he and the Bolsheviks were in power in one third of the world...' - Bob Gould

    This is quite revealing for a lying turd who claims he recognizes no socialist sacred cows. At the very end of 1918 Lenin and his squalid gang of mercenaries and Chekist torturers controlled a fairly small patch of land in the old Russian empire. No sooner had they taken over this empire completely - five years later again - then they were imperialists as well as well as fascist criminals. Ideological imperialists.
    Bob Gould is a boot-licker to power whose sacred cow is the Leninist counter-revolution. He's also a spotter for the enforcers of the fascist NSW ALP machine and as such should be shot on sight. Once a Stalinist - always a Stalinist.
    10:48p
    Four freedoms
    '...three or four broad questions:

    1. Is some class-based socialist project, however revised and improved, still a valid proposition, from your point of view?

    2. Does the class struggle still exist?

    3. Is the concrete struggle against the imperialist power of the main capitalist metropolitan powers still a desirable project?

    4. Is a broad defence of the good aspects of the traditions of the workers and socialist movements still desirable?...' - The Ghoul

    With the Ghouls permission we can drop 4) as more of a motherhood statement than a question. So
    1) I've often said that Spain 36 conditions exist in many places - and the Anglosphere could collapse back to this epoch by the growing look of things - this movement would be built on the greatest rapid evolution of all time in Spain in 1936 and specifically reject all Marxist 'socialist' projects. It would be basically libertarian socialism Vs democratic socialism with both the Lunar Right and Loony Left radically minimized and marginalized. By 'class' we mean those in power as one class and the rest of us as the main class.
    No Marxist mumbo-jumbo - no workerist nonsense that valorizes the 'working class' over say the ' peasant class'. I'm also talking about a revolutionary project that is mostly net based - no reformist project can work in time to save the planet now. We need a world wide revolution now. A rolling , 'Mexican wave' of revolutions rapidly sweeping the entire globe. This can only be an anarchist project.

    2) See above. As far as Marxism is concerned it doesn't. By Marxist standards actually existing Marxism has failed. Around 100 million innocents have died already. Marxist 'class struggle' must end yesterday.

    3) Yes - and again this is not for Marxism to have the slightest say in. Islam may for a while as it has taken point for a while and Islam may be used to suppress Marxism. Indeed anything that comes to hand may be used to put Marxism in the ground.
    11:05p
    Stand-up Ghoul
    Bob Ghoul could have a future in stand-up with lines like this...

    ' Lenin never shot the messenger'

    "... whoever recognizes class war must recognize civil wars, which in any class society represent the natural and, in certain circumstances, inevitable continuation, development and sharpening of class war."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy [London: HarperCollins, 1994], p196)

    "Until we apply terror to speculators - shooting on the spot - we won’t get anywhere."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981], p55)

    "Let them shoot on the spot every tenth man guilty of idleness."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981], p55)

    "Surely you do not imagine that we shall be victorious without applying the most cruel revolutionary terror?"
    - V. I. Lenin
    (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981], p57)

    "You can tell Ter [a local Cheka commander] that if there is an offensive, he must make all preparations to burn Baku down totally, and this should be announced in print in Baku."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy [London: HarperCollins, 1994], p202)

    "Merciless war against these kulaks! Death to them!"
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy [London: HarperCollins, 1994], p197)

    "... carry out merciless mass terror against the kulaks, priests and White Guards; unreliable elements to be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981], p103)

    "I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981], p119)

    "When we are reproached with cruelty, we wonder how people can forget the most elementary Marxism."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Robert Conquest, The Human Cost of Soviet Communism [Washington: Committee on the Judiciary, US Senate, 91st Congress, 2nd Session, 1970], p10)

    "... catch and shoot the Astrakhan speculators and bribe-takers. These swine have to be dealt [with] so that everyone will remember it for years."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy [London: HarperCollins, 1994], p201)

    "Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy [London: HarperCollins, 1994], p203)

    "Dictatorship is rule based directly on force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained through the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Stephan Courtois, "Conclusion," in The Black Book of Communism, ed. Stephane Courtois [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999], p741)

    "I come to the inescapable conclusion that we must now launch the most decisive and merciless battle against the Black Hundreds clergy and crush their resistance with such ferocity that they will not forget it for several decades... The bigger the number of reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeois we manage to shoot in the process, the better."
    - V. I. Lenin
    (Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary [London: HarperCollins, 1996], p227)

    That we bought civil war to the village is something we hold up as a MERIT,' wrote Lenin.
    The use of the death penalty was very rare in Tsarist Russia. When the Bolsheviks came to power one of the first things they did ( in Lenin's absence ) was to abolish the death penalty. Lenin reacted furiously,' beside himself with indignation,' in Trotsky's description.
    ' How', he demanded to know,' can a revolution be made without executions?'

    Lenin developed a rationale for shooting these potential opponents. Of the ' Menshevics and Social-Revolutionists who advocated such views,' Lenin wrote that they, ' wonder when we tell them that we are going to shoot them for saying such things. They are amazed at it, but the question is clear: when an army is in retreat, it stands in need of a discipline a hundred times more severe than when it advances because in the latter case everyone is eager to rush ahead. But if now everyone is just as eager to rush back, the result will be a catastrophe.
    " And when a Menshevic says: ' you are now retreating but I always favouring a retreat together,' we tell them in reply: an avowal of Menshevic views should be punished by our revolutionary courts with shooting, otherwise the latter are not courts but god knows what."

    It is obvious that a whiteguard insurrection is being prepared in Nizhni. You must strain every effort, appoint three men with dictatorial powers (yourself, Markin and one other), organise immediately mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers, former officers and the like.

    * Lenin Collected Works, Volume 35, page 350, 9 August 1918.
    11:43p
    Psychology of losers
    Its a common whinge on the Loony Marxist Left that democratic-socialists will always revert to fascism when threatened by any revolution from below. The dribbling Marxist boiler-plate here usually relates to Germany and the death of a couple of Marxist nonentities in 1919, whose names escape me.
    But why shouldn't the German social-democrats refer to 'socialist' precedent?
    Lenin and Trotsky were social-democrats themselves until getting anarchist ' religion' briefly in 1917. ( And there's no need to assume this was just a breathtaking Machiavellian double-game, because they were risking their lives and they were forced to retreat to Finland.)
    So the documented behavior of the great Lenin and Trotsky might easily be cited by anyone on the Left wanting to repress competition with extreme prejudice. The murder activities of the Cheka preceded those of the Freikorp by 10 months. The timeline tells on Marxists again and again, over and over. Maybe thats why they dropped 'scientific socialism' in favor of the long march through the bourgeois cultural institutions.

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