PugJesusInventing the word 'tankie'
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2072171/inventing-the-word-tankie
"Why would the People's Paradise of East Germany build a wall anyway? Who would even want to escape?"
"Why would the People's Paradise of East Germany build a wall anyway? Who would even want to escape?"
"You don't mind if we actually give power back to the workers, do you, big bro USSR?"
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDGerman revolutionary socialist #RosaLuxemburg was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1871. A cofounder of the #SpartacusLeague/#KPD, she was critical both of the #Leninist approach and of #SocialDemocracy. A depressingly small percentage of her works have been translated into English.
The #KronstadtRebellion was actually #socialist, unlike the #Leninist state. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1921 it adopted a 15-point programme, calling for #FreeSpeech for #anarchists etc., #TradeUnions, equal rations, & freedom for #PoliticalPrisoners. The state response was bullets.
notes> Conspirituality: Brief: Graeber vs Bannon, #Anarchism vs #Leninism (Part 1)
Episode page: https://conspirituality.net/
> How did the #American far right end up using #Leninist strategy more effectively than the American left? And what does that say about our own movements—our blind spots, our strengths, and inherited illusions?