The Act Of Killing (2012)

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1953, 1956 & 1963 divided the world among fascist factions. #Nazism in #theUkraine became a client of #Americanism as German money rebuilt war factories. Japan had its monarchy & factories restored as #SouthKorea was forced to become an #antiCommunist base. Arab family dictatorships ruled over Shia.
Former independence leader & first president of #Indonesia #Sukarno was removed from power on #ThisDayInHistory in 1967. He was replaced by #Suharto, an #anticommunist tyrant aligned with the US, whose #democide/#genocide of #leftists and ethnic Chinese claimed 1-3 million lives.
Is capitalist conditioning destroying your life?

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There was a pro-US, #anticommunist #terrorist attack on the coast of #Cuba. Thankfully, the Cuban #military swiftly neutralized the threat. But the #US #imperial #regime is pushing #propaganda siding with the terrorists.

Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar).

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#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #huac #Anticommunist #witchhunt #BertoltBrecht #marxist #Poet #books #writer #author #fiction #playwright #ParisCommune @bookstadon

Lotte Lenya sings Alabama Song (vaimusic.com)

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Today in Labor History February 9, 1951: The 2-day long Geochang massacre began when the 11th Division of the South Korean Army killed 719 unarmed citizens. 385 of the victims were children. Many others were senior citizens. Two days earlier, the same division committed the Hamyang massacre, killing 705 unarmed civilians.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #korea #massacre #Geochang #Anticommunist #civilians #children #coldwar

I just advanced "scratch a #liberal, watch a #fascist bleed." for encounters with western #marxists:

"Scratch a western marxist, watch an #anticommunist bleed."

Because thats the primary contradiction between western marxists and marxist-leninists: western marxists engage in compatible critique that ultimately leads to no threat for capital. They use anticommunist and imperialist arguments while marxism-leninism has produced many socialist countries.

Beware of the #imperialist left.

In the fallout from the #StaviskyAffair, the head of the Paris #police (a noted #anticommunist) was sacked, so on #ThisDayInHistory in 1934 the #6FebruaryCrisis saw #FarRight groups rally in a half-hearted coup attempt & riot. Police killed 17 of the rioters and the pm resigned.
#Anticommunist hysteria among the #capitalist ruling class aligns #liberals & #conservative more with #fascism than #socialism. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, just after #Hitler took office, UK newspaper #DailyExpress cheered for the coming repression as socialists were attacked.