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I like how the infamous tiannemen square tank video shows literally nothing bad happening to the guy at all whatsoever.
So, just out of curiosity a few years back I clicked on a headline for like an annual day of remembrance for tiannemen square, and it included a video so I wanted to see if they would play the full clip.
That clip stopped at the same point that the clip is always stopped when used in news stories, but the article linked a source about tiannemen square for further reading.
I clicked on that source, and it was very similar to the first article, roughly 2-3 short paragraphs of declarative statements, the same clip edited to cut off before it shows "tank man" climbing on top of the tank shortly before walking away unharmed, and another link to a source for further reading about the events at tiannemen square.
At that point I wanted to see if I would ever get through this chain of an attribution of an attribution down to any primary sources or even a single article that just showed the full, unedited clip at the very least.
Every link I clicked on had the same exact structure. It was an article from a major publication, they all featured either the singular famous still frame of Tank Man standing in front of the tank or they showed the edited clip that is cut before the clip shows him walking away safe and unharmed in order to imply that the tank ran him over, they all had a short summary of events and then the "source" provided if a reader wanted to verify the facts of the article was just another article repeating the same thing which linked to another article repeating the same thing which linked to... and so on and so on.
I probably went a few dozen links deep and never found a single article that used any primary source documents or historical analysis or investigative reports as a source for any of the claims made in the article. The only primary source to be found was the singular video that every article refused to show in full.
And to be clear, this isn't just some odd quirk of this specific event. This pattern is exactly how most modern propaganda makes its way into the public consciousness. When a claim or accusation is made and the source making the claim is of dubious veracity (such as when the US state department, intelligence agencies, and various affiliated NGOs make claims about states or groups that are targets of US aggression and intervention), then going through this process of publishing hundreds of articles that amount to little more substance than saying "BBC reported that NYT reported that The Sun reported that WaPo reported that The Guardian reported that an anonymous state department official said something happened" serves two purposes.
The first purpose that this process serves is that the original source that is of dubious or sometimes completely discredited veracity is now buried from scrutiny under and attribution of an attribution of an attribution of an attribution.
The second purpose this process serves is that it creates the appearance of academic, journalistic, and/or scholarly consensus even though this large volume of reporting ultimately traces back to a singular source.
Anyway, this is a fun and good practice that everyone should get into the habit of that totally isn't jokerfying in the slightest!
This is so funny to me, so like this is just a comical assesment of reservations there are two ways i can interperet this post Swiss red cross style whitewashing of atrocities ala "and dachau has swimming pools!" or noble savage bullshit Let me paint you a picture of what reservations *actually* look like, which is to say they are cesspool of hereditary chiefs and incapable governments, kept on starvation diets by what little industry and subsidies are given to keep the population alive, subsidies which are of course distributed by the very same corrupt hereditary governments, perfectly willing to fabricate some blood quantum documents to send someone out to the wolves to get their way, the primary income for many reservations is a cash envelope from the bureau of indian affairs for each child born to keep the population up and this population kept in desperate conditions are then shipped out to work on casinos (owned by those very same hereditary chiefs of course) or doing day labor for companies who hire off the reservation to serve below minimum wages So yes, what we can see is that reservations *are* imperialized entities, but whats further is the only authority these entities have and the only division that produces them is the very fucking poisoinous peace treaties youre jerking off over. if we reinstated the parcelling out of reservations to individual private familys who lived on them, and tore down the economic barriers tommorow there would be an immediate improvement in the quality of living amongst the indigenous population, and those shitty fucking casinos would collapse
its no question that the blatantly fascist rural policies of fdr's new deal played a large part in the restoration of the reservations, which previous presidents had sought to privatize out of existance
Another fun fact about this, the architect of the modern reservation, john collier one of fdr's lackeys, was also the designer of another of fdr's notorious policies, the japanese internment camp, which he proposed would have the same effects, stopping problematic "assimilation" and protecting the innocent inferior minorities
and one more thing to add on to this, because ive seen a certain sentiment going around, the reservation governments especially as they modernly exist are in no way an indigenous invention, they were specifically designed by collier as his own model "communal" semi fuedal colonies, as the newest itteration of a program which only considered the voice of indigenous people as representative of the losing side of a war, not a single one of those peace treaties could be described as benefitting anyone but the usa, naturally as the army that won the fighting, but colliers remoddelling of the system itself was massively unpopular and openly denied by many pre-existing governments, but was forced through via a comically rigged election (I know i normally say nobody rigs an election and this is technically true in this stand point too, effectively speaking they held a real election which was of course under advertized and uninformed but, a real election. where it turns around is that collier decided that every single registered indigenous person who *didnt* vote would count as a vote in favor) even with the rigging, about a third of reservations voted in opposition anyways. the reservation expansion was particularly hated on the navajo reservation on account of its specific included law limiting livestock herds to numbers arbitrarily decided by the collier himself for "environment reasons"
Hello! Was wondering if you know of any good sources or general arguments to use when people claim things like the minsk agreement was never about russia helping the people of donbass and the lpr. I know largely this is unfortunately one of those conversations, where if people are already deciding to deny the actions of ukraine in the dpr and lpr it may be useless but I do think it'd be useful for me to know regardless in the event someone actually decides to listen
This might sound defeatist given that I spend a great deal of time trying to communicate things of that nature to fence-sitters, but if someone is so instinctively anti-Russia that they perceive even clear attempts at de-escalation which would've ensured the people of the DPR and LPR retained their sovereignty and democratic rights alongside a cessation of the violence as some inherently untrustworthy and duplicitous act, then they are frankly too far gone to reel back in.
Like the terms of the Minsk agreements are not a secret. You can argue about much regarding them, but not about the fact that they clearly prioritise the safety and sovereignty of donchane people. So my most honest answer is that there is probably literally nothing you can say that will move someone who is already familiar with Minsk yet nonetheless chooses to believe Russia had 0 intention of helping the Russian-speaking minority in the border regions and was actually the bad-faith actor in this equation. Ultimately someone like that is not animated by some great love or empathy for Ukraine, theyāre animated by a deep-seated hatred and distrust of Russia, first and foremost. You cannot easily reason someone out of what is essentially racism, prejudice is not housed in the chamber of the mind governed by reason. You can sway them on many things. You can waver their support for the Maidanist Ukrainian regime. With enough evidence you might even get them to begrudgingly acknowledge that a genocide is taking place in Donbass(<- immensely difficult, but not impossible). But it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it would be to convince them that Russia is not forever and always acting in evil, subversive ways for evil, subversive self-serving ends. And if those are the terms of the discussion it will always be fruitless imo.
But if you wanna try nonetheless itās good to keep in mind that what they're usually actually asking you to do is prove something that is ultimately impossible to prove: the purity of a stateās motivations. Like. Unless you can just... call Vladimir Putin up and have him personally relay to us his innermost thoughts at the time while twirling the phone cable and kicking his feeties, if weāre talking intentions weāre all just making inferences at the end of the day. The heart is the domain of Allah, not I, nor you. You cannot intuit intentions, and I donāt have vovochkaās number :(
What we can instead look at(and redirect them to) is what was materially taking place;
Millions of people in the Donbass region rejected the post-Maidan order and organised politically around demands for autonomy, federalisation, or outright independence from Kiev. And that opposition was not unfounded or unprovoked. For people in the east things like the massacre of activists in Odessa+the growing influence and acceptance of open fascists+the increasingly genocidal rhetoric toward Russian-speaking populations by those in power, to name a few, were taken as clear signs of what the new western-aligned political order had in store for them.
Like The DPR and LPR were not beamed down from the Kremlin one morning fully formed like Aphrodite from the sea foam. They emerged from a real political constituency with real grievances and fears and had real popular support. And the new Ukrainian governmentās answer to that popular demand for sovereignty was military force; eight years of genocidal warfare, shelling, and displacement aimed at destroying a population that had made it very clear it no longer consented to being governed by the new regime.
So when people try to frame the conflict as though it began and escalated alone with Russian interference, theyāre hoping u will just sidestep the accounts and fears and political aspirations of the millions of people who actually live in Donbass and whose, again, popular support made the republics even possible in the first place. Thatās why the burden is always on proving Russia's āsincerity.ā Because if it was on explaining away the existence of a population that spent years resisting the post-Maidan Ukrainian state and were routinely violently denied their sovereignty, they would sound ghoulish. Because it is a ghoulish position to defend.
Like my support for the DPR and LPR, for the sovereignty of the people of Donbass, and for Russiaās role does not hinge on my believing that Russia is somehow the one state in the world that never acts according to its interests, because it isnāt and even if it was it would be impossible to prove. It hinges on the fact that there comes a point where u have to decide whether self-determination is a universal principle or one that only applies to populations whose humanity has been cosigned by the west+the fact Russia, regardless of intentions, was the only major state actor in this conflict materially supporting the people of Donbass while NATO states armed and politically backed the far-right regime massacring them.
As for Minsk, the terms of the agreements were literally structured around guarantees of Donbassās autonomy, self-government, amnesty for resistance fighters, right to elections, constitutional reform, and a cessation of violence. Like Iād imagine it would be very difficult to argue that Donbass was an afterthought in an agreement whose central premise is very obvious upon reading was about resolving the status of Donbassš
But for what itās worth, I actually agree that Minsk was never intended to be implemented in good faith. Just not because of Russia. Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande straight up admitted afterwards that the agreements largely served as a ploy to buy time for Ukraine to strengthen itself militarily.
Tiananmen Square Collection
Most of what we hear about Tiananmen in 1989 focuses on student activists, since they dominated Tiananmen square itself and waved banners de
More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundame
Believing the Tiananmen lies shames the memory of those who really did die there.
If you thought we knew everything about the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 3-4, 1989, think again. Mysteries remain. Some are so signific
The truth is that no government will allow a protest to go on endlessly to the extent that it begins to destabilise the country and economy.
Liberation News is republishing the following article originally posted in 2014 to answer the lies s
So, I know other users have previously uploaded this video, but I couldn't find a version that features as much of the available raw footage
Workers in the Tiananmen Protests: The Politics of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation
Trying really hard to not come off as too mean to The Jakarta Method or Killing Hope in the videoās script. And there is brilliant stuff in both books, but I really donāt think theyāre the best uses of time for a baby anti-imperialist Marxist. I think theyāre good for a read when youāre further along and are better able to critically read them.
Besides Bevins and Blume both have really annoying author voices at points and itās likeā¦ š
finally someone being critical towards The Jakarta Method
I mention it in the script but I think A.B Abramsā Power And Primacy is the stronger book on western intervention in the Asia-Pacific compared to Jakarta Method. Certainly Jakarta Method is more exhaustive when it comes to the murders by the military purge in Indonesia, but Abramsā treatment on the same topic is a serviceable introduction.
Plus. Abrams has a really solid exploration of the Asian financial crisis as U.S. economic warfare, and modern Western military posturing against Chinaā¦ so itās also just more relevant in terms of modern geopolitics.
Handing the Treuhand over to West German appointees was seen as a green light to sell off all the GDRās publicly-owned enterprises at breakneck speed and at knockdown prices ā some factories which were perfectly viable were sold for as little as 1 Deutsch Mark. There was only a pretence at proper tendering or of attempting to find the highest bids and some of the privatisation process even involved criminal methods and a misuse of state subsidies. The Treuhand managed to convert GDR assets valued at over 650 billion Deutsch Marks into a debt mountain of 260 billion Deutsch Marks.
In other words within four years of Treuhand operations 860 billion Deutsch Marks were spent on privatising and destroying GDR industry. Even if not admitted publicly, the Teuhand, once in Western hands, saw its task as overseeing the rapid dismantling of GDR state assets so that no potential competition with West German companies would arise. This was legitimised by the allegation that GDR industry was āmarodeā i.e. rotten, and could not be rescued anyway. Apart from the fact that UN statistics contradict that claim, during the 1980s, the GDR had bought over 700 top-of-therange industrial complexes to help modernise some of its key industries.
These are still productive today and are bringing in profits for their new owners ā so a description of the whole GDR economy as ārottenā is hardly accurate. The Treuhand set about eradicating any legacy of GDR socialism with alacrity: 3,400 factories, 520 large construction companies, 465 state farms and thousands of other smaller companies were privatised, and soon thereafter many were closed. In the countryside 1.7 million hectares of agricultural and forest land were sold off. Privatisation (in reality straightforward asset-stripping) was seen as an ideological imperative. And all this took place within only four years. A few ācherriesā, though, were successfully privatised and kept going; they have since brought their new owners big profits: the Zeiss optical instrument factory in Jena, the largest East German steel works (EKO) and most of the Baltic ship yards. They became successful enterprises, albeit with severely reduced staffing levels ā Zeiss, for instance, had 20,000 employees in GDR times but today a mere 2,000.
As an interesting aside, the last historical incidence of the German government setting up a āTreuhandā institution had been when the Nazis used them to expropriate Jewish and Polish properties and ālegaliseā their transference to new āAryanā owners.
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? (2015)
by Bruni de la Motte & John Green
now I know westerners actively go out of their way to refuse to see north koreans as humans but I think fear mongering about a child who went with her dad for what was essentiallt bring your daughter to work day is just another kind of deplorable
The Telegraph released that article one day prior to a huge revelation by the New York Times, who reported that in 2019 the Trump administration launched a covert SEAL Team 6 mission into the DPRK to plant listening devices meant to spy on Kim Jong Un. The mission failed, and they killed multiple civilians in cold blood to cover their tracks.
The Trump administration never disclosed this mission to the Congress committees tasked with overseeing military and intelligence operations. The article also points out that many of those involved in that mission were promoted.
North Korea isn't the bad guy. They are trying to defend themselves from a belligerent empire that has already killed 20% of its population at one time and has have been trying to recolonize them ever since. Do not fall for these attempt by the West to manufacture consent for further violence against the people of Korea. The North Korean government isn't the oppressor of the Korean people, the United States and the imperialist bloc are.
North Korea are the bad guys actually.
Like, yes that mission was deplorable. No those civilans didnt deserve to die. But acting like North Korea is not a brutal warmongering dictatorship ruled by martial law is dangerously ignorant. We know what life is like, we have testimonies from refugees and from South Korean/our own monitering.
North Korea is, quite obviously, the oppressor of the North Korean people.
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Cash incentives and the western mediaās endless appetite for shocking stories encourage refugees to exaggerate, Jiyoung Song argues
Defectors can expect to receive the sum if they cross the border with intelligence or weapons.
the country that bombed and sanctioned north korea to the ground is undoubtedly the oppressor of north koreans. former US president jimmy carter has bragged about this very thing himself. you are not being brave by repeating US state department atrocity propaganda generated from their inability to conquer north korea.
EU budget givers vs receivers.
Not pictured: the contribution of Eastern European and Balkan workers in Germanyās outsourced supply chains to Germanyās economic growth and how only 5% of Greek bailout money ever made it to the Greek treasury, with the rest circulating back to the European banks that owned the debt.
Also the entire German economy is designed to produce this sort of outcome: they repress wage growth in order to keep their exports competitive and run permanent trade surpluses. Smaller EU economies are unable to adjust to this by devaluing their currency because theyāre using the exact same currency as Germany, so theyāre forced into a position of structural trade deficits. This leaves German public finances in a better position to continue upholding the EU. Read āTrade Wars are Class Warsā for more on this.
You think thatās bad, wait until German industry grinds to a halt because the sanctions drove energy prices up the wazoo. Europe is thoroughly screwed.
Fuck Mao for what he did to Tibet
Let's have a look at what type of society Tibet was before the PRC helped liberate the masses:
But what society is this one which the Dalai Lama was called upon to govern? Albeit reluctantly, the author of the book finally acknowledges that āThe supremacy of the monastic order in Tibet is absolute, and can be compared only with a strict dictatorship. The monks are wary of any influence that could endanger their domination.ā Those who are punished include not just those who act against the āpowerā but āanyone who calls it into into questionā (p. 76). Letās take a look at the social relations. It seems that the cheapest goods in Tibet are servants (more accurately ā slaves). Harrer cheerfully describes a meeting with a senior official: even though he is not particularly important, he still has āmore than thirty male and female servants.ā (p. 56) They are subjected to hardships that are not only bestial but even unnecessary: āAbout twenty men were tied by their belts to a rope and dragged a huge trunk, singing in chorus their slow dirges and advancing hand in hand. Panting and drenched in sweat they could not linger to seize breath, because the leader did not allow it. This backbreaking work represents a portion of their taxes, a tribute to the feudal system.ā It would have been easy to make use of the wheel, but āthe government did not want the wheel,ā and, as we know, to oppose or even just to question the power of the ruling class could be very dangerous.
Domenico Losurdo: āChina, Tibet and the Dalai Lamaā
Many Buddhists maintain that, before the Chinese crackdown in 1959, old Tibet was a spiritually oriented kingdom free from the egotistical lifestyles, empty materialism, and corrupting vices that beset modern industrialized society. Western news media, travel books, novels, and Hollywood films have portrayed the Tibetan theocracy as a veritable Shangri-La. The Dalai Lama himself stated that āthe pervasive influence of Buddhismā in Tibet, āamid the wide open spaces of an unspoiled environment resulted in a society dedicated to peace and harmony. We enjoyed freedom and contentment.ā
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Until 1959, when the Dalai Lama last presided over Tibet, most of the arable land was still organized into manorial estates worked by serfs. These estates were owned by two social groups: the rich secular landlords and the rich theocratic lamas...Drepung monastery was one of the biggest landowners in the world, with its 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 great pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. The wealth of the monasteries rested in the hands of small numbers of high-ranking lamas. Most ordinary monks lived modestly and had no direct access to great wealth. The Dalai Lama himself ālived richly in the 1000-room, 14-story Potala Palace.ā
Secular leaders also did well. A notable example was the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army, a member of the Dalai Lamaās lay Cabinet, who owned 4,000 square kilometers of land and 3,500 serfs. [13] Old Tibet has been misrepresented by some Western admirers as āa nation that required no police force because its people voluntarily observed the laws of karma.ā [14] In fact it had a professional army, albeit a small one, that served mainly as a gendarmerie for the landlords to keep order, protect their property, and hunt down runaway serfs.
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet MythĀ (2003) by Michael Parenti
So two of the most common "critiques" (hardly critical enough to earn the name) of the political system of china, is that it lacks elections and has only one party, the words being said here are false but there is a degree of truth to the sentiments delivered, elections and political parties in china do operate differently than the liberal model. In china the system surrounding these two elements is named "Full Process People's Democracy" this is the electoral system in china which also naturally defines the role of political parties, both aspects of this system are taken from historical socialist experiments and have developed over time in china, the terminology of "Full Process People's Democracy" is largely a post-mao one and in many ways exists in opposition to mao's leadership. "Full Process" This is the aspect of the system that defines elections, a foreign analog to the Full Process system is the system of "Soviet Democracy" The guiding principle of the Full Process system is that elections are only effective if the decisions made are well educated as well as popular. To achieve this goal a system of federated congresses is used so that the only "direct" elections are on the local level where every person is most likely to be informed of the pertinent issues. the hierarchy of congresses is as follows >Municipal People's Congresses. (These are directly elected by popular vote within their jurisdiction, depending on locality they may represent a town a village a burough or a large city) >Provincial People's Congresses. (These are elected by the municipal congresses of a province. this congress serves as the central political power of a province and is designed to balance the interests of the entire province as such to make well informed and popular systems it must hold representatives of the local congresses instead of a general election which would overrepresent cities) >National People's Congress. (Elected by provincial congresses*. taking the same principle as the provincial congress, here the interests of the provinces are balanced together by representatives of the provinces. This congress makes most sweeping government matters but only meets once per year) >National People's Congress Standing commitee. (Elected by the NPC to manage the day to day legislative affairs of the government) As you can see this federated system obviously includes many elections, but the elections are small and designed with precision in mind instead of broad sweeping general elections (*technically 335 seats of the 2,873 seat NPC are elected not by the system of people's congresses these seats are representative of the military, national police, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, but this number of seats is small enough to be unimportant.)
"People's Democracy" The concept of People's Democracy is taken directly from the organization of many eastern european socialist states, it could be called the dimitrov model as he pioneered it with his leadership of the comintern. the basic premise of this system is that under socialism, there are still many economic classes, so while the proletariat or labourers are the most powerful class who command the state, it would be useful to understand the wants and desires of the other classes. Based on the fact that the Proletarian labourers are represented by a singular party it is logical for the other classes to be as well. These parties are typically grouped into a singular government coalition. A good example of the traditional people's democracy system would be the national front of the ddr mostly because it's extremely well documented. In china the coalition is called the united front, and the way the system works is that at all levels of election the pertinent level of the united front will meet to discuss each parties interests and likely come to many accords on how they will manage the election, and how to manage the internal competition equitably amongst the parties. Many (but not all) issues will be managed here before the election occurs, with the election serving as a check on the decision making (i.e "Is it a popular decision?") as well as revolving issues of contention. As you can see here, while china does hold elections and have a multi-party system, it does these in ways that are disdinct from the liberal system and these "critiques" helpfully point it out despite their poor wording.
How ādefectorsā are victims of manipulation
āI am a citizen of Pyongyang. I canāt understand [RoK] keeping me away from my husband and daughter and parents for seven years. Please send me back now to the arms of my family who love me.ā (x)
Kim was tricked into defecting from DPRK to RoK in 2011 by a human trafficker (referred to as a ābrokerā due to imperial media influence). After RoK govt released Kim into RoK society, the trafficker tricked her again, forcing her to give up half her $6000 settlement allowance.
Human traffickers harass DPRK defectors even after the latter arrive in RoK. Additionally, evangelical Christians target defectors throughout and after their mandatory sequestration period at Hanawon, RoKās center for newly arrived defectors.
Many DPRK defectors are trafficked or tricked into coming to RoK and are particularly vulnerable. It seems that RoK government entrusts evangelical protestant churches with controlling the new arrivals and instilling in them a positive view of life under U.S. occupation.
One DPRK defector says that during her stay in Hanawon, defectors were subjected daily to sermons by a pastor from the evangelical Christian Council of Korea. She doesnāt mention Catholic or Buddhist servicesā having had the same place of privilege.
The Christian Council of Korea has actually lobbied against RoK having operational control of its own military (OPCON). They argue that the US should control RoKās military until āpeace is established on the Korean Peninsula.ā
In 2003, the Christian Council of Korea held a āprayer rallyā in support of the US military occupation of RoK.
According to Chaneung Jungās āEffective Evangelistic Strategies for North Korean Defectors in South Korea,ā individual evangelical churches are allowed to visit Hanawon, where they begin to proselytize their targets.
Evangelical Protestant churches spare no expense to bribe the newly arrived DPRK defectors, who ātypically prefer Protestants to other religious groups because of the quality of snacks and giftsā they hand out.
Immediately after DPRK defectors are released from Hanawon, they may find evangelical Christians waiting for them at their new homes. Jung praises the example set by Namseoul Grace Presbyterian Church. (āTalbukminā = defectors)
This church ārecognizes that the most effective evangelism period for [defectors] is when they leave Hanawon and take their first step into [RoK] society. So the department established a weekday evangelism team.ā
The proselytizing team āwait for [a defector] at the front door of their new house. When the resident arrives, the team holds a simple worship service, cleans the house together, shares a meal, and supplies used furniture and electronics.ā
According to a defector interviewed in this link, 60% to 70% of DPRK defectors leave Hanawon as Protestants, presumably evangelical. Thatās obviously due to the efforts of the US and its puppets in the RoK ruling class. (x)
Reminder that the fall of the Berlin Wall was a tragedy for humankind, and that Marxist-Leninist LGBT+ Liberation will always be superior to rainbow capitalism. ā š³ļøāš ā š³ļøāā§ļø ā
āRisen from the Ruinsā, the first edition of the new series āStudies on the DDRā, follows the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (
Although it existed for only 40 years, the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was able to construct and advance a fundamentally different heal
Some additional reading for people curious about the DDR/GDR! There will be a third article released from this organization all about the history of land reform in the DDR/GDRā thatāll be shortly released so hereās the full site to find it once it is. :3c
It is precisely the everyday living conditions under socialism that appear increasingly hard to imagine in todayās capitalist reality. "Stud
Im Episodenfilm DAS ANDERE LEBEN geben elf Interviewpartner aus der Sicht ihrer Lebensgeschichte Einblick in die Gesellschaft der Deutschen
Here is a great collection of interviews from various former DDR/GDR residents if anyone's interested (there's english subtitles) :0
Also here's a good book:
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It : John Green and Bruni De La Motte : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
4 part series on the GDR! ^
hello comrade, do you have any news sources that i can rely on to keep up with news in venezuela? thank you <3
Well, generally a trend i will say when it comes to socialist states is the best sources are party papers, but my answer to this question varries of you speak spanish or english wrt english i think there is only two options i am confident in suggesting 1. the psuv international department puts out a daily newsletter on present affairs in english, spanish, and russian on their telegram channel https://t.me/InfoPSUVInternacional 2. telesur is a broadcasting company jointly managed by the alba organization of carribean socialist states (with it's core in cuba-venezuela-nicarague) For spanish, The above's spanish versions are also great but in addition 1. Con el mazo dando is a newspaper and semi-daily news show hosted by diosdado cabello general secretary of the psuv, 2. the ministry for communes website's news section is a great source for the matter of what the socialist economy in venezuela is actually like https://www.comunas.gob.ve/ (linking the ones with worse seo, the non linked ones you should be able to find)
The Day of Romani Resistance in Europe reveals a hidden history of a stereotyped people.
On the evening of May 16, 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, SS guards armed with machine guns surrounded the area of the camp designated for Roma and Sinti prisoners. Their intent was to round up the nearly 6,000 prisoners there and send them to the gas chambers. But when the guards approached the area, they were met with armed resistance from the inmates. The prisoners had learned of the planned āliquidationā and fashioned weapons from sheet metal, wood, pipes, rocks, and any other scraps of material they could get their hands on. According to the memories of survivors and witnesses to the incident, the inmates forced the guards into retreat, and though some prisoners were shot that night, the act of resistance allowed the Roma and Sinti prisoners to put off execution for several more months.
hi, can you please explain what you meant by āif russia is your enemy in this war you are lostā? iām not asking this to start a fight or anything, iām genuinely curious and want to learn more <3
Because Ukraine started it, eleven years ago, when they attacked their own cities with missiles, and again in 2022 when they cried crocodile tears after ignoring a highly publicised treaty the government of the Russian Federation made with the government of my ācountryā, the Donetsk Peopleās Republic, and our sister nation, the Lugansk Peopleās Republic. A treaty which, amongst other things, established that should Ukraine continue to break the established ceasefire, Russia would intervene on our behalf. And Ukraine did break the ceasefire, in mere days after the deal was signed they attacked civilian water facilities in the D.P.R and cut off water access to over a quarter of a million people, along with other attacks on civilian infrastructure. Ukraine is a ethnonationalist fascist state with Neo-Nazis at every level of governance, and for the past eleven years itās sole focus has been making the lives of Ukraineās national minorities, especially the lives of those of us in the East, untenable, all while selling off our country to the highest bidder.
I cannot stress enough to people outside of the region that recognising the D.P.R and L.P.R was meant to be a measure of de-escalation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk Republic stresses that the recent military supplies that have arrived in Ukraine encourage th
Lugansk and Donetsk declared their independence on May 12, 2014.
Tensions have peaked in eastern Ukraine as Ukrainian security forces shelled the territory of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic.
DPR President Denis Pushilin announces that his country has started withdrawing its citizens to Russia, prioritizing women, children, and el
Russia initiates a criminal case over Ukraine shelling Rostov, and Kiev denies such "attack" on Russian territories.
Putin also signed with the leaders of the DPR and LPR the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual aid
Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev encouraged Western countries to stop fomenting tensions in the region
Earlier, the Federation Council unanimously ratified agreements on friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance with the DPR and LPR
Vyacheslav Volodin noted that Russia had been trying to get Ukraine to implement the Minsk accords for a long time, but "Kiev made them null
Putin said that the recognition of DPRās and LPRās sovereignty was a "long-pending decision" and asked the parliament to support it as well
Anyone who tells you that this war is random, or unprovoked, or just because Putin is a big meanie who wants an empire is lying to you. This is possibly the most provoked war of the 21st century, not even taking into account that 23% of people living in the D.P.R and L.P.R were literal Russian citizens.
Sigh this post is breaking containment so here is a list of over 40 English language non-Russian resources on Donbass
Yall settled in the Donbass as colonizers and got your asses kicked by local Ukrainians. Who you have historically oppressed and genocided.
Whoās yāall? Iām Ukrainian by ethnicity as well as Belarusian and Azeri. Also this isnāt true Ukrainians and Russians settled Donbass at the same time and were only predated as settlers by the Don Cossacks who originate in Southern Russia and speak a dialect of Russian
Even Wikipedia could tell you this
For a nerd you appear to be pretty stupid and uninformed.
Would you recommend any good books or recorded lectures on philosophy from medieval North African and its influence on philosophy's genealogies?
For a general historical overview thatāll help you contextualize what youāre reading, I would recommend North Africa: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Phillip C. Naylor.
Although it isnāt strictly focused on North Africa, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left by Ernst Bloch offers a useful interpretation of the legacy of the Islamic Golden Age in general in modern revolutionary philosophy, though I have a big problem with how Bloch just completely ignores Ibn Sinaās actual political theology.
Emir Abd el-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam by Ahmed Bouyerdene discusses the philosophical and mystical background of Algerian leader Abd al Qadir and his influence on 19th century republicanism and cosmopolitanism.
Yves Lacosteās Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the Past of the Third World is useful for learning the basic concepts of Ibn Khaldun and how he influenced both modern Western historians and 20th century Muslim intellectuals trying to interpret historical materialism from their own perspective.
As far as the relationship of Islam goes to the modern concept of Africa, this comes up a lot in The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Invention of Knowledge by V.Y. Mudimbe, which is very skeptical towards the erasure (done both by Western Romantics and Pan-Africanists + Pan-Islamists) of the way that Islamic societies in North Africa were organized around the enslavement of āpaganā Africans. This is important for understanding the contribution made by North African Islamic philosophers like Ibn Khaldun to adapting Aristotleās climate theories into the first instances of modern race science and natural slavery theories. Jairus Banajiās work on the role played by medieval Islamic traders in developing global capitalism is a useful contribution for understanding this tension between the highly democratic and even utopian premises of Islam and the reality of class, caste, and racial struggles in the community
