#Marxism #Leninism is not #populism. #VladimirLenin was not a populist. Before the #revolution, the #Bolshevik party was small & #Lenin was attacked by the other #leftist parties & called an #anarchist.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

Having listened to Origin Story's take on #Marx and on the Russian revolution, the one thing that utterly startles and horrifies me is the presenters' utterly uncritical regurgitation of #capitalist dogma. Yes, undoubtedly, the #Bolshevik leadership were an unlovely bunch who did some dreadful things, but the idea that #capitalism would have been better really needs more thought.

Origin Story: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part Two – Power
Starting from: 01:27:33

Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/131A7G/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR4627677261.mp3?updated=1761051476#t=5253

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 also 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 #nestermakhno

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 (only about 25 police strikes 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 #worldwarone #NYTimes

Commie: #Communism !
Me: Dafuq?!?!
Commie: #marxism , #lenninism , #dialecticalmaterialism , #cuba , #china , #vietnam, Robert Engalls, #RTFM , #bolshevik , #HoChiMinh , #revolution , #fidelcastro , #privatepropertyisnotpersonalproperty , ...

A few hours later....
Commie: ..., #marxism , #lenninism , #dialecticalmaterialism , #cuba , #china , #vietnam, Robert Engalls, #RTFM , #bolshevik , #HoChiMinh , #revolution , #fidelcastro , #privatepropertyisnotpersonalproperty , ...
Me: 🫠 😵‍💫 😐 🫠

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

2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWz42tmxug #GM #IBM