155 years ago, on April 22, 1870, #VladimirLenin, Russian revolutionary, leader of the #Bolshevik party and the October #Revolution, the third classic of #Marxism #Leninism, was born.
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Today in Labor History March 1, 1921: Anarchist and leftwing communist soldiers, sailors and civilians rose up against the Russian Bolsheviks in the Kronstadt uprising. The rebellion, which lasted until March 16, was the last major revolt against the Bolsheviks. It began when they sent delegates to Petrograd in solidarity with strikes going on in that city, and demanded the restoration of civil rights for workers, economic and political freedom for workers and peasants, including free speech, and that soviet councils include anarchists and left socialists. The Bolshevik forces, directed by Trotsky, killed over 1,000 Kronstadt rebels in battle, and executed another 2,100 in the aftermath. As many as 1,400 government troops died in their attempt to quash the rebellion.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #communism #ussr #soviet #kronstadt #rebellion #uprising #revolt #slaughter #massacre #bolshevik #freespeech #solidarity #strike
#SmedleyButler: #War is a racket
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Smedley+Butler+War+is+a+racket
ready for a small #ww2 #nazi #Germany #history lesson?
1. #fascism is simply the CONCENTRATION AND ABUSE OF POWER IN THE HAND OF A FEW #UNELECTED #ANTIDEMOCRATS (it usually ends in #catastrophe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
2. this #bs #historian https://youtu.be/kbWLE07NGcw?t=402 says #god was killed by the #nietzsche and the #bolshevik (the #communists #commies #soviets) and thus the so well educated #civilized #Germany did the #holocaust (ok does not make sense but well!?)
no the reason is much simpler, #Germany had SEVERE #economic problems and 1929 #stockmarket crash #USA demanding all loans back from #Germany made it worse + a (#money) #corrupted #Democracy (yes it happened before) destroyed a lot of #trust of the people
in #economic (!) desperation (and possibly other problems) they voted for #extremists as a kind of last resort (stupid) idea to fix things and in the beginning #Hitler did fix some things like #unemployment and #hunger in the #cities, but of course the #madmen had bigger goals, like rule the planet, no matter if he killed everyone in the process
also it seems like powerful elites in the #West #USA feared #communism and the nationalization of assets as #realestate and #factories, so these #elites welcomed a #radical #Germany that would fight #communism = the enemy of the rich to death (and they believed their #Hitler and did and died, #German soldiers that survived LITERATELY stated that they were not fighting the #Russian population but #communism !!! )
check this out: "So there are a lot of #American #elites who were involved in helping #finance and helping rearm and helping rebuild the #German #economy during this period. It’s a shameful episode. Oliver and I go into it in some depth in the documentary Untold History and the book of Untold History because we think it’s a very important story that gets swept under the carpet when we’re talking about these people being the greatest generation. A lot of those folks who we call the ‘greatest generation’ were #Nazi enablers, and many of them saw the #Nazis as a #bulwark against #Bolshevism, as against #communism, and were therefore happy and willing to support and allow and tolerate and turn a blind eye to the rearmament of Germany during this time, because they saw the Nazis as the way to stop the #Communists and the #SovietUnion”
Among those who explicitly stated that was Senator #HarryTruman, who on the floor of the Senate said if the #Germans are winning we support the #Russians, and if the #Russians are winning we support the #Germans. And that way let them kill as many of each other as possible. That was not #Roosevelt’s attitude."
https://therealnews.com/d-day-how-the-us-supported-hitlers-rise-to-power
@rysiek Looks like you're not the only person to point to the #MuskCoup as relating to Soviet traditions. #JeetHeer describes it [1] as dual power [2]. Wikipedia gives the #PetrogradSoviet that led to a #Bolshevik uprising as the classical example of dual power [2]. So Secretary-General Stalin may have learnt from that.
Seems like #FührerMusk is combining the symbols/techniques of the two main totalitarian traditions of the XXth century.
[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-spending-data-coup
Far-right #Russian philosopher suggests removing Lenin from Moscow mausoleum, to make room for #Putin. Alexander #Dugin compared the Russian dictator to an emperor. #news #lenin #bolshevik #russia #moscow #kremlin #ukraine #war
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13501
⬆️ @fluxed
ALWAYS reminds me of the sealed #German train that carried #Lenin to St. Petersburg in #Russia.
Winston #Churchill compared Lenin to a “plague bacillus” that had been introduced into a body at precisely the moment it could do the most harm.
The train injected the bacillus late at night, when it arrived and was greeted by a delirious crowd… rejecting compromise, relentlessly pulling the #Revolution toward his hard #Bolshevik line.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lenin-and-the-russian-spark
Today in Labor History January 9, 1905: Russia’s “Bloody Sunday” occurred, with soldiers of the Imperial Guard opening fire on unarmed protesters as they marched toward the Winter Palace. They killed as many as 234 people and injured up to 800. They also arrested nearly 7,300 people. The people were demanding better working conditions and pay, an end to the Russo-Japanese War and universal suffrage. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks opposed the march because it lacked revolutionary demands. The public was so outraged by the massacre that uprisings broke out in Moscow, Warsaw, Riga, Vilna and other parts of the empire. Over 400,000 participated in a General Strike. Protests and uprisings continued for months. The backlash was horrific. The authorities killed 15,000 peasants and sent 45,000 into exile. Another 20,000 were seriously injured. Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony is subtitled “The Year 1905.” Maxim Gorky’s novel, “The Life of a Useless Man,” depicts Bloody Sunday.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #russia #bloodysunday #bolshevik #GeneralStrike #massacre #Revolution #novel #gorky #shostakovich #books #writer #author #uprising @bookstadon
Today in Labor History January 7, 1919: Argentina’s "Bloody Week" (AKA Tragic Week) began in Buenos Aires. Workers were demonstrating for the 8-hour work day. The authorities opened fire, killing four and wounding 30. Clashes with the authorities on the day of the funerals left another 50 dead. In response, they called for a General Strike. Paramilitary groups attacked workers in collaboration with the police. By January 16 the authorities had fully crushed the strike, killing as many as 1,500 and wounding 2,000. Many of the victims were Jewish-Russian, Italian, Spanish and Chilean anarchist immigrants targeted by racists and anti-Bolshevik hysteria. Many were executed without trial after surrendering. The typical workday was 12 hours. However, many workers were forced to toil for up to 16 hours per day.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #argentina #buenosaires #bolshevik #russia #BloodyWeek #massacre #GeneralStrike #police #PoliceBrutality #jewish #anarchism #racism #antisemitism
Today in Labor History December 27, 1918: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) seized 7 airplanes, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. The RIAU was an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno. During the Ukrainian War of Independence, they created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovia. It lasted from 1918 to 1921, when it was ultimately crushed by the Bolsheviks.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #NestorMakhno #ukraine #soviet #russia #ussr #bolshevik #communism #Makhnovia
Corriere.it - Homepage by di Aldo Grasso
La morte di Lenin, thriller con varie ipotesi evocate da Ezio Mauro
«Lenin, cronaca di un mistero», su La7, è un documentario che ha intrecciato il declino fisico del leader con la lotta politica dentro il partito bolscevico
Translated:
Death of Lenin, a thriller with various hypotheses evoked by Ezio Mauro.
"Lenin, a Chronicle of a Mystery," on La7, is a documentary that intertwines the physical decline of the leader with the political struggle within the Bolshevik party.
#Lenin #EzioMauro #leader #Bolshevik
https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/24_dicembre_12/la-morte-di-lenin-thriller-con-varie-ipotesi-evocate-da-ezio-mauro-bea6a1d8-996a-41d1-9df9-c4dac85edxlk.shtml
Today in Labor History December 11, 1905: Workers and students rose up against the Russian government and established the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev, Ukraine. The uprising lasted for four days. The majority of the protesting workers were from the Shuliavka district. On the first day of the uprising, the Council of Workers' Deputies published their manifesto demanding the abolition of absolute monarchy, freedom of speech and assembly, social services, amnesty for political prisoners, national emancipation of Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, and the immediate end to the Jewish pogroms. The workers also demanded pensions and better medical services. On December 15, Shuliavska was surrounded by the Imperial Russian Army and local authorities. The police came in, made mass arrests and confiscated any weapons they found. 1 month later, Bolsheviks led another revolt in Kiev.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #kiev #russia #communism #bolshevik #revolt #uprising #Revolution #antisemitism #students #ShuliavkaRepublic #freespeech #prison
I usually leave reading memoirs for periods of severe flu or being off-grid for weeks because they aren’t the most entertaining type of literature, but this one is an exception: Tomasz Parczewski, “Memoirs of Kronstadt governor”, first published in 1935. Unfortunately, all editions were in Polish and the book seems to be largely unknown in non-Polish historiography (which in turn isn’t particularly focused on #Kronstadt).
Parczewski was an ethnic Pole who served in Russian Imperial army and ultimately became the Soviet governor of Kronstadt. He witnessed one of the most embarrassing #Bolshevik failures - the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921.
I haven’t reached this stage yet in the book, but so far it’s an abundant source of first-hand information about life and relations in pre-Soviet Russia, its government and structures, culture and its daily life. One example:
In the rear areas, where war did not directly threaten, a state of affairs was slowly establishing itself such that cadre officers were being sent to the front, and ‘rear’ posts began to be filled with ‘’blagonadiozhnye‘’ (‘trustworthy’ yes-men). So they pack on officers former discharges from regiments, former overt and covert policemen, gendarmes, so that these ‘ears and eyes’ of the Tsar would watch over his cause. (…) Kronstadt is the gate of the capital, so he also had the task of guarding it and from internal enemies. As I was able to see after a short time, the Kronstadt troops were bred not so much for the German as for the eventual strangling of the already widely expected revolution.
Reading modern #Russia military channels, I see pretty much the same criticism, almost identically worded. Parczewski wrote that in 1916, so I just leave the conclusions to the reader…
Apart from that Parczewski seems to be genuinely in love with Helsingfors (today known as #Helsinki), Swedish and Finnish women and high culture of Fins, which is being widely emulated by local Russian snobs. One intriguing part is where he describes his fortification work in “Oggelbin village”, which seems to be located on the coast “17-18 km from Helsingfors” but I’m unable to locate it on any of the modern maps - maybe today it’s just part of Helsinki…
Today in Labor History September 18, 1945: Russian anarchist Volin died of tuberculosis in Paris. He participated in both the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before the Bolsheviks forced him into exile. He participated in the protests that culminated in Bloody Sunday (1905). During the ensuing strikes he led the creation of the first St. Petersburg Soviet. He criticized the October Revolution for bringing the Bolsheviks to power and then left for Ukraine, where he became an important figure and, eventually, Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, of the anarchist Makhnovshchina, a large enclave in Ukraine, lasting about 4 years, organized under anarcho-communist principles.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #russia #ukraine #makhnovia #bolshevik #soviet #Revolution #volin #russia
Today in Labor History September 9, 1919: Boston police walked off the job during the strike wave that was spreading across the country. The police had affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, prompting the police commissioner to suspend 19 of them for their organizing efforts, and prompting other cops to go on strike. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge announced that none of the strikers would be rehired and he called in the state police to crush the strike. However, over half of them showed solidarity and refused to work. Coolidge then mustered the state militia and created an entirely new police force made up of unemployed World War I veterans, and Harvard students. The poorly trained “cops” killed 9 people during the strike. But all the blame was placed on the strikers. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called their strike a crime against civilization. AFL President Samuel Gompers urged the cops, whom he represented, to return to work. The press attacked the striking cops as Bolsheviks. The NY Times wrote: “A policeman has no more right to belong to a union than a soldier or a sailor. He must be ready to obey orders, the orders of his superiors, not those of any outside body. One of his duties is the maintenance of order in the case of strike violence. In such a case, if he is faithful to his union, he may have to be unfaithful to the public, which pays him to protect it.” And ever since, the cops and their “unions” (professional association might be a more appropriate term) have overwhelmingly followed the NYT advice, rarely striking themselves (~25 in the U.S. over the past 100 years) and eagerly attacking other working-class people who are on strike.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #police #cops #bolshevik #ww1 #worldwarone #NYTimes
"I can't listen to music too often. It affects my nerves." Did Lenin really say this? And if so, did he really mean it?
https://youtu.be/aRVXj5JcT3w
#lenin #russianrevolution #beethoven #appassionata #music #history #bolshevik #maximgorky
"I can't listen to music too often. It affects my nerves." Did Lenin really say this? And if so, did he really mean it?
#lenin #russianrevolution #beethoven #appassionata #music #history #bolshevik #maximgorky
https://youtu.be/aRVXj5JcT3w?si=D523RRL3IAzdm-uB
⬆️ @kravietz
Any mention of #Lenin ALWAYS reminds me of the sealed #German train that carried Lenin to St. Petersburg in #Russia.
Winston #Churchill compared Lenin to a “plague bacillus” that had been introduced into a body at precisely the moment it could do the most harm.
The train injected the bacillus late at night, when it arrived and was greeted by a delirious crowd… rejecting compromise, relentlessly pulling the #Revolution toward his hard #Bolshevik line.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lenin-and-the-russian-spark
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory
Today in Writing History May 7, 1867: Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont was born. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants), which won him the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also in 1924, he published his novel “Revolt,” about a rebellion of farm animals fighting for equality. However, the revolt quickly degenerates into bloody terror. It was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution. Consequently, the Polish authorities banned it from 1945 to 1989. Reymont’s farm animal rebellion predated Orwell’s by 21 years.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nobelprize #novel #fiction #books #WladyslawReymont #rebellion #revolt #communism #soviet #bolshevik #Revolution #writer #author #censorship #BookBan @bookstadon
"Lavender & Red (Parts 10-12)" (2004) by Leslie Feinberg. LGBTQ+ History Meets Socialist History.
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #marxismleninism #marxistleninist #ussr #sovietunion #lenin #bolshevik #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #transgender
