Anarcho-Bolshevik

Because I would rather talk to my friend through Zoom than a Google service or product.

This has been going on for several hours now. It was an awkward moment when I was trying to show images from this site to somebody else through Zoom.

I really doubt that offering this to them is going to help with anything, but here: https://www.idcommunism.com/2019/03/was-the-famine-of-1932-33-in-kazakhstan-a-genocide.html

¿Konteksto?

Learning about why so many German socdems and theory noobs support Palestine’s occupation almost depresses me. I know that atoning for the Shoah was never anything more than a pretension, but I can think of so many better ways to support Jewish people that are easier and more effective than cheerleading a decaying apartheid régime and wasting dosh thereon.

Attending synagogue services? Attending holidays or festivals? Learning a Jewish language or dialect? Trying a Jewish cuisine? Educating others on Judaism or Jewish history? Asking tasteful questions? Nope, nope, nope. All that you gotta do is support Palestine’s occupation and you are good to go! You can even act antisemitic while you are at it!

While I hate to use religious comparisons, I can’t help but think of antinomianism because the principles are so similar: just do this one little thing and after that, you can do whatever you want. Imagine how many settlers would unkiddingly say that I am worse than Anders Breivik.

No, the Jews of Antiquity were the Jews of Antiquity.

Cato did not just attack the Roman turn toward ostentatious consumption. Another feature of Roman life in the early second century BC also attracted his ire. Cato saw Rome’s growing engagement with the Greek world as a threat to the Roman and Latin culture he idealized.

His xenophobic attacks greatly exaggerated the impact of Greeks in Rome. Most Greeks would have come as slaves following a series of second-​century Roman victories in the East. Relatively small numbers of free Greek philosophers, teachers of rhetoric, and doctors had come to Rome, but it was precisely these high-​status, high-​visibility Greeks whom Cato targeted. Cato said that Greeks “will corrupt everything” in Rome and predicted that the Romans would lose their empire when they began to be “infected with Greek literature.”²⁰

Cato used this malignant rhetoric to support a series of reactionary policies. When he campaigned for election as censor for 184 BC, he “proclaimed that the city needed a drastic purification” through which he could “cut away and cauterize the luxury and degeneracy of the age.”²¹ This message of moral decline and the promise of a radical return to a more virtuous Roman past propelled Cato into office.

(Source.)

Huh… interesting.

So, how’s everybody doing?

Several years ago I said after listening to a Media Roots Radio episode (maybe this one) that I seriously suspect that child molestation is probably a common phenomenon among the upper classes, and somebody on Reddit chimed in by mentioning that a similar culture exists in Singapore and South Korea. I’d be unsurprised if Epstein and his friends have been there before.

G-d, it’s hard to believe that this problem is systematic among the rich. You would think that it would only exist among a handful of them, but from what I understand, it is a lot more widespread than that.

Anyway, I need to be honest and say that I don’t have the stomach to dwell on this topic and that I would rather focus my attention on something else. I’ll just conclude by saying that the upper classes deserve bullets to their foreheads.

Pg. 66:

Vesga certainly expressed his claims in an atmosphere of heightened anti-morisco popular anxiety and in the years immediately preceding the royal decision to decree the expulsion of the moriscos from Spain in 1609.

The decades preceding the expulsion decree were characterised by increasingly strident and alarmist claims targeting the moriscos: from the allegation accusing them of systematically conspiring with Spain’s Muslim adversaries in the Mediterranean to that of seeking to take over the kingdoms through their allegedly explosive birth rate.³⁶

(Emphasis added.)

Quoting Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, pg. 63:

Perhaps inevitably, the public hysteria about medical murder was stoked by incendiary manuscript pamphlets listing the names and places of residence of individual medical practitioners accused of murdering their patients.

By way of illustration, the Portuguese pamphlet Treatise in which it is proved that the New Christians of the [Hebrew] Nation who dwell in Portugal are secret Jews and in which the evils that they inflict upon Old Christians are pointed out, circulating in the 1630s, enumerated the names of fifty-one New Christian physicians, surgeons and apothecaries working in Portugal and Spain convicted by the Inquisition of crypto-Jewish beliefs and, in some cases, even of mass murder.

Looks like doxxing is an older phenomenon than I thought.

You are making too many generalisations. Yes, some Trotskyists are annoying and have awful conceptions of the people’s republics, but categorising their entire movement as ‘anticommunist’ is a serious accusation and grossly unfair to the permanent revolutionaries who do support the people’s republics.

When you get the time, kindly read something here: https://www.trotskyistplatform.com/theory

From Rich Brownstein’s Holocaust Cinema Complete, pg. 70:

[T]he [Third Reich] built six camps specifically for slaughter, interchangeably known as “death camps,” “extermination camps” or “killing centers.” All six of these death camps were in occupied Poland: Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, and the camp system of Auschwitz/Birkenau. While some concentration camps had small gas chambers—Dachau, Stutthof, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück¹¹—extermination was the main business of the six death camps, even if labor ­sub-camps were part of a specific camp’s system, like at Auschwitz/Birkenau.

(Emphasis added.)

Since these were all in Poland, and the Soviets reached Poland whereas the Western Allies never did (otherwise there’d never be such a thing as the Polish People’s Republic), that means that the Soviets liberated all of these camps.

I hate to state the obvious, but scholarly citations like these are worth keeping in mind when anti-Bolsheviks inevitably say ‘you’re wrong’ to this sore point. Unfortunately, I predict that they are going to rescue their assumption by claiming that the Soviets merely captured the camps without liberating anybody (like this) and citing an Internet meme as the evidence. That, and referencing the Molotov Cocktease Pact: the single most important event in all of history right up until somebody murdered Charlie Kirk.

Doing research on the relations between Judaists and Samaritans, I came across this strange article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_revolts

During the reign of Emperor Zeno (r. 474–475 and 476–491), tensions between the Christian community and the Samaritans in Colonia Flavia Neapolis (Shechem) grew dramatically. According to Samaritan sources, Zeno, whom the sources refer to as “Zait the King of Edom”, persecuted the Samaritans mercilessly. The Emperor went to Neapolis, gathered the Samaritan elders, and asked them to convert to Christianity; when they refused, Zeno had many Samaritans killed and rebuilt their synagogue into a church. Zeno then took possession of Mount Gerizim and built several edifices, among them a tomb for his recently deceased son, on which he placed a Christian cross so the Samaritans would be forced to prostrate themselves in front of the tomb.

Truly baffling. You would think that a Christian would be gentle with an actual Samaritan, of all people, but perhaps the preachers awkwardly skipped over that part.

Now, I don’t want to blandly exonerate these conquerors by questioning their faithfulness. It’s unproductive (and uninteresting) to try explaining away Christian atrocities by saying that the oppressors weren’t ‘true’ Christians. On the other hand, it would be hard for anybody to argue with a straight face that these oppressors were merely following J.C.’s advice either. What interests me, above all, is tracing where these adventurer-conquerors inherited their practices… and given the history of Roman proto-imperialism, I think that I might know the answer.

Time to do some sleuthing.

states that pretended to try communism

When did they claim this?

People take grave robbing extremely seriously, as in it is the worst possible form of theft that anyone can commit.

Were you already aware that Soviet policies lead Transnistrians to resist antisemitism, even during Axis occupation?

ETA: Doing a search, it looks like I already told you this six months ago. I was unaware since you did not upvote the thread. That being said, if you hadn’t got around to reading the research then this is as good a time as any to start.

https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/sources

The way that I see it, imperialism is just a parasitic relationship that one capitalist country has with another country or region.

The Fascists’ relations with Somalia were imperialist because they were an overall gain for the Fascists but an overall loss for the Somalis.

The Republic of Cuba sending out numerous troops to defend the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was a loss for the Republic of Cuba but a gain for the BRV, so it was not imperialist. (Quite the opposite, if anything.)

Admittedly, this is a somewhat crude and informal understanding of imperialism, but it should be easy enough to grasp for those who unwisely oversimplify imperialism to just countries doing stuff in other countries.

It predates the CIA, but I agree that it’s a vastly overused word that is becoming a thought-terminating cliché.

I like how Emopunker omitted your last reply in a thread griping about you.

Also, -ov and -ova are prerevolutionary loans which probably feel as foreign to Tajiks as Fitz- does to us. Frankly, griping about the Soviets failing to derussify surnames is pretty boneheaded given how protective most people are of their surnames, but even if they did derussify those, anti-Bolsheviks would instead be whinging about the Soviets forcing people to change their surnames.