Today in Labory History January 20, 1930: Korean anarchist military leader Kim Chwa-chin was assassinated. When he was 18, he publicly burned the Korean slave registry, releasing 50 families of slaves and providing each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea. He also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong as ways to help organize for Korean national liberation. He was imprisoned in 1911 for subversive activities. He later fled to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation, but then fought against the Japanese when they invaded Manchuria. After his assassination, the Korean anarchist movement was heavily repressed by the Japanese army, in the south, and by pro-Kuomintang forces, in the north. By 1931, most of its leaders were dead.
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One does not need to feel any enthusiasm for the current regime in #venezuela to call out what appears to be a remarkably anachronistic revival of something known as 'booty imperialism'. #bootyimperialism is a term I encountered when reading 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy' by #josephschumpeter many years ago. He applied it to #soviet policy in #manchuria and elsewhere in the late 1940s. Seizing foreign oilfields would fit this description.
surprised and pleased to see copies of some of Lao She's in my local library. anyone in here read him? if so what do you think?
勾践就是女真南下地殖民者，其名“勾践”读音是“juzi”，就是今天吴语读“诸暨”，那是“女直”地原始读音。浙江地名“诸暨”就是“女直”之谐音
😅但凡对语言学有一丁点了解，就讲不出来这种空话
In 1928, a group of officers in the Kwantung Army attempted to frame the KMT for their own assassination of Zhang Zuolin. The failed attempts to enforce accountability and discipline which followed set the stage for similar incidents in the future.
📅 This Day in History – Sept 18, 1931
Japan staged the Mukden Incident, blowing up their own railway and blaming China—launching the invasion of Manchuria.
False flags like Mukden aren’t rare.
They’re routine.
Ems Dispatch. Reichstag Fire. Gleiwitz. Winter War. Northwoods. Lavon Affair. Tonkin. Iraq. Again and again.
So I wrote a poem.
https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/the-spark-that-wasnt
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