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So-so scans of soviet anti-religious posters.
Category > socialism
6/4: We have not forgotten | MetaFilter
Memoirs of Tiananmen Square
DPRK declares to tear up truce agreement_English_Xinhua
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Wednesday that it will no longer stand by the ceasefire agreement ending the 1950-53 Korean War, in response to South Korea’s participation to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
GM – Government Motors || kuro5hin.org
With the recent announcement of the US and Canadian Government takeovers of Chrysler and GM it seems appropriate to revisit some government produced automobiles from the past and how they performed
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Mike Tyson pays respects to Mao
Tyson apparently read some of the late Chinese leader’s writings while in prison for rape in the 1990s.
The Ictíneo | MetaFilter
While his competitors devised submarines for military purposes, Monturiol had alternative ambitions. The man was a communist, a revolutionary and a utopian who regarded his invention [a Victorian submarine] as a way of improving the life of the working class …
World-systems approach – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The World-systems approach is a post-Marxist view of world affairs, one of several historical and current applications of Marxism to international relations.
GRcade.com • View topic – BLH's tour of Chernobyl. Youtube vid popularity skyrockets!!
So heres my trip to Chernobyl in pictures. The trip was booked with http://www.tourchernobyl.com. [Abandoned radioactive amusement park]
GRcade.com • View topic – BLH’s tour of Chernobyl. Youtube vid popularity skyrockets!!
Hit & Run > Chas Freeman: The ChiComs Were "Overly Cautious" at Tiananmen Square – Reason Magazine
You got that? The” truly unforgivable mistake” the Chinese authorities made at Tiananmen was not the brutal massacre of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, but rather “the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud.”
Hit & Run > Chas Freeman: The ChiComs Were “Overly Cautious” at Tiananmen Square – Reason Magazine
A Collection of Newspaper Masthead Clip Art – a set on Flickr
Cultural-Revolution era imagery and propaganda
A Collection of Newspaper Masthead Clip Art – a set on Flickr
Докторрр ин дер ролле Fima_Psuchopadt (с) – 65 лет назад была снята блокада Ленинграда
А представить себе тот ужас, что людям суждено было пережить, можно читая “Дневник блокадника”, написанный молодым мальчишкой в 1941 – 42 годах
Докторрр ин дер ролле Fima_Psuchopadt (с) – 65 лет назад была снята блокада Ленинграда
2007 August « Conservative Liberal
This is [Germany's] calling, that we shall become the templars of this Grail, gird the sword round our loins for its sake and stake our lives joyfully in the last, holy war which will be followed by the thousand-year reign of freedom. – Marx
Rick Warren: Whatever It Takes
Rick Warren, 17 April 2005: “In 1939, in a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts, for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium, those in brown shirts formed with their bodies a sign that said, in the whole stadium, ‘Hitler, we are yours.’ And they nearly took the world. Lenin once said, ‘give me 100 committed, totally committed men and I’ll change the world.’ And, he nearly did. A few years ago, they took the sayings of Chairman Mao, in China, put them in a little red book, and a group of young people committed them to memory and put it in their minds and they took that nation, the largest nation in the world by storm because they committed to memory the sayings of the Chairman Mao. When I hear those kinds of stories, I think ‘what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium, followers of Christ, would say ‘Jesus, we are yours?’ What kind of spiritual awakening would we have? Jesus said, ‘I want you to do this publicly.’ So what I want you to do is take the card, and in just a minute, and if you say ‘Rick, I am willing to serve God’s purposes in my generation.’ I want you to open up to the sign that says ‘Whatever it takes.’ Whatever it takes. And I want you to just say, ‘This is my commitment, before God and in front of everybody else. I’m in.’ And I would invite you to just stand quietly and hold up ‘Whatever it takes.’ I’m looking at a stadium full of people who are saying ‘whatever it takes.’ Whatever it takes, God. Time, talent, energy, money, effort, vision… God, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes, that’s what I’m going to do. And I believe that today we are making history. We’re making history that’s going to start a movement that will bring a new Reformation in the church of God and a new spiritual awakening in our world. And, our world needs it. And today, as you say ‘whatever it takes,’ you’re saying publicly, ‘I’m in, God. I’m in… I’m in.’”
[Complete video and transcript at link. I know my enemy when I see him. But unlike Hitler, Lenin, Mao, Warren and everyone who formed with their bodies a sign that said, in the whole stadium, YAY FASCISM! YAY COMMUNISM! YAY JESUS!... unlike these monsters, I won't do whatever it takes to see them fail. I advocate the withering away of superstition under the twin suns of reason and scorn. These are my only tools. They, meanwhile, are going to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to get their way. Just like those who think god/history is on their side have always done. - Trevor Blake]
It is a sad reflection of our time that Che Guevara is seen as a hero – Telegraph
It is sad, but given the state of our society, somehow not so surprising, that we choose the wrong man to adorn our T-shirts.
It is a sad reflection of our time that Che Guevara is seen as a hero – Telegraph
IBDeditorials.com: Communist Cuba: 50 Years Of Failure
it’s the longest-running failure in the New World.
Trevor Blake: E. Auchvager
One of the lesser known figures of fascist Germany was E. Auchvager. Here is a first hand account of someone who survived meeting him…
Thirty-two of us were crammed into a cell. Sixteen of us would stand while the other sixteen tried to sleep on the cold filthy floor. We took shifts that way. Actually, we considered ourselves lucky. After all, we were alive. Dozens were led from the cells to the firing squad daily. The volleys kept us awake. We felt that any one of those minutes would be our last.
One morning the horrible sound of that rusty steel door swinging open startled us awake and Auchvager’s guards shoved a new prisoner into our cell. His face was bruised and smeared with blood. We could only gape. He was a boy, couldn’t have been much older than 12, maybe 14. “‘What did you do?’ We asked horrified. ‘I tried to defend my papa,’ gasped the bloodied boy. ‘I tried to keep these [expletive] from murdering him! But they sent him to the firing squad.’ Soon Auchvager’s goons came back, the rusty steel door opened and they yanked the valiant boy out of the cell. We all rushed to the cell’s window that faced the execution pit. We simply couldn’t believe they’d murder him! Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders – the gallant E. Auchvager.
“Kneel Down!” Auchvager barked at the boy. “ASSASSINS!” We screamed from our window. “MURDERERS!! HOW CAN YOU MURDER A LITTLE BOY!” “I said, KNEEL DOWN!” Auchvager barked again. The boy stared Auchvager resolutely in the face. “If you’re going to kill me,” he yelled. “you’ll have to do it while I’m standing! MEN die standing!” “COWARDS! MURDERERS! Sons of B**TCHES!” The men yelled desperately from their cells. “LEAVE HIM ALONE!” HOW CAN …?!” And then we saw Auchvager unholstering his pistol. It didn’t seem possible. But Auchvager raised his pistol, put the barrel to the back of the boy’s neck and blasted. The shot almost decapitated the young boy.
We erupted. We were enraged, hysterical, banging on the bars.’MURDERERS! ASSASSINS!’ His murder finished, Auchvager finally looked up at us, pointed his pistol, and BLAM-BLAM-BLAM! emptied his clip in our direction. Several of us were wounded by his shots. To a man (and boy) Auchvager’s murder victims went down in a blaze of defiance and glory. So let’s recall Auchvager’s own plea when the wheels of justice finally turned and he was cornered in Bolivia. “Don’t Shoot!” he whimpered. “I’m Auchvager! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”
… it may be shocking to some of my readers, but since his death E. Auchvager has become a hero. His image is found all over the world, even on t-shirts. Why is Auchvager forgiven for being a multiple murderer, why is Mao considered kitsch, when others who killed far fewer (or none at all) are still demonized? Why are some bad guys rehabilitated and others not? How does your attitude towards Auchvager change knowing that I’m actually writing about someone else?
davidthompson: Unrequited Love
“Rock and roll as well as jazz was what they called ‘imperialist music’… [Che] hated artists, so how is it possible that artists still today support the image of Che Guevara?”
