AnarchoBolshevik

As recently as this morning I was wishing that I could shoot my brains out because I still obsess over how I disgraced myself in public nearly one year ago, and months earlier when I told a couple of friends about this they did basically absolutely nothing to help. Dwelling on their interactions has only made me want to stay away from them, so I haven’t talked to anybody on Discord in almost one month. I’m lonely, but I feel like if I try reinteracting with them, they’ll only disappoint me again, so it’s better to stay alone.

There are still a few things that prevent me from taking my life: 1) I don’t want my stepdad to feel guilty, 2) I have enough reasonability to recognize that I’ll feel less suicidal later, 3) my medications help me somewhat, and 4) I have a feeling that even if I really tried to kill myself I’d only fuck up again, like the bullet would only incapacitate me mentally without killing me. Usually when I try something for the first time, something goes wrong, so that would be pretty typical.

My standard of living isn’t even particularly awful. It’s okay, but the trade‐off is that I have to live with a severe depression that stays with me like cancer.

Illegal unilateral restrictions.

Yeah, but… you can’t just expect a capitalist empire to simply not illegally sanction somebody. Not only does that make absolutely no sense, but it is completely, outrageously unfair. I mean, do you have any idea how much effort that would take? To not sanction somebody?

The sanctions on Russia, Haiti, Cuba, N. Korea, and dozens of others are completely their responsibility and expecting them to be the ones to lift the sanctions is perfectly logical. In fact, they’re basically all sanctioning themselves. If anything, America is the real victim in this situation!

the Headquarter of the Arrow Cross Party, today the House of Terror

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The House of Terror museum in Budapest, “which restricts the Holocaust to a couple of rooms while devoting the rest of its ample space to communist crimes,”^75^ meticulously lists Jews among the communist perpetrators but not among the victims of the Stalinist system.^76^

For Randolph Braham, the House of Terror attempts to turn [the Third Reich’s] last ally into its last victim,^77^ an attempt furthered in 2014 with the inauguration of Budapest’s Memorial to the Victims of the German Invasion depicting Hungary as [its] victim, but ignoring Hungary’s responsibility and collaboration with the [Third Reich] in exterminating Jews.^78^

As I have shown elsewhere, this memorial is an amalgam between Deflective Negationism, Double Genocide and Holocaust Obfuscation.^79^

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The narration of its permanent exhibition draws no distinction between the policies of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which held power from October 1944 to April 1945, and the [people’s republic], which held power between 1948 and 1989.

By linking the reign of terror carried out under Hungary’s brand of [fascism] with the subsequent terror experienced under Communism, this museum drew a parallel between the two régimes and, what’s more, declared a continuity between the two kinds of terror.

With this, it aligned itself with that controversial, revisionist school of historical thought that regards the human devastation wreaked by these two types of dictatorship, and the régimes themselves, as of essentially the same nature.

Since the history of Communism is depicted only in part, the exhibit hardly can be called comprehensive. Not that this was the intention. As the museum director herself publicly has stressed, the institution aims to display terror in all its sensational aspects, to invite visitors to an historical “happening”.

The House of Terror creates a historical narrative that paints a picture of Hungarians as the victims of both Nazism and Communism. In this narrative, the Communist terror persists well beyond the actual fall of Communism — if not to this very day

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Oh, and a funny thing: Karl Marx’s use of the phrase ‘House of Terror’ actually predates the anticommunists’ use of it, only he used it to refer to a kind of workhouse wherein the capitalists expected the poor to work for them for about one dozen hours a day.

I guessed

1. $1 billion
2. $459 billion

I checked the answer and I was really close.

I smiled at first, but the more that I stare at this, the less funny that it is…

What the fuck? I swear that this is at least the second time now that I’ve seen a Polish antisocialist downplay German Fascism. Is their knowledge of their own country’s history really so bareboned that they can’t even name the atrocious policies that the Fascist colonizers regularly enforced?

I feel condescending for saying this, but I’m afraid that sooner or later I am going to have to make a thread overviewing the Third Reich’s atrocities against Poles. I thought that these were already common knowledge but now I guess not.

There is something that I want to nip in the bud before anybody brings it up. A counterargument that some anticommunists like to repeat is that all of Soviet space exploration was based on the work of Axis scientists, ergo the ‘Mongol hordes’ never really invented anything. I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll still repeat it:

When the Allies reclaimed Nordhausen it was the anticommunists, not the Soviets, who ended up with the larger share of the scientific materials.

The remaining Axis scientists that the Soviets did capture still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.

Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own.

The DPRK forces people to not be homeless.

‘Serbia has never had only Serbs living in it. Today, more than in the past, members of other peoples and nationalities also live in it. This is not a disadvantage for Serbia. I am truly convinced that it is to its advantage. National composition of almost all countries in the world today, particularly developed ones, has also been changing in this direction. Citizens of different nationalities, religions, and races have been living together more and more frequently and more and more successfully.

‘Socialism in particular, being a progressive and just democratic society, should not allow people to be divided in the national and religious respect. The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hardworking people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. Therefore, all people in Serbia who live from their own work, honestly, respecting other people and other nations, are in their own republic.

‘After all, our entire country should be set up on the basis of such principles. Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.’ — Slobodan Milošević, 1987

A masterpost on the Italian Fascists’ atrocities? It may take me a few days, but I’ll give it a shot.

Answer:

1. ‘Prior to 1925, [Korean] public works offices within city and regional governments carried out their construction projects by contracting out to sub‐contractors. […] The more complex the division of labor and the network of primary and secondary sub‐contractors, the more the real wages fell below the nominal wage.’ — Ken C. Kawashima, The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
2. Standard of living means the accessibility to goods and services that promote a healthier, happier life. Due to technology and some concessions to the lower classes, such as social security and the rarity of child labor, I’d say that overall there has been some increase in the standard of living for those of us in Imperial America.
3. Fewer hours reduces profits for the capitalists, whereas more hours increases profits for them. ‘Koreans […] did not work in capital‐intensive, large‐scale factories, but rather in labor‐intensive, small‐ and medium‐sized factories (chūshō kigyō) that employed fewer than 30 workers, and often in factories with fewer than 10 workers (reisai kigyō). These factories had little capital to invest in advanced technology; profits therefore stemmed from the workers’ long working hours and cheap wages.’ — Ken C. Kawashima, The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
4. Yes, and so is the inequality between white and black proletarians.
5. Profits come from selling more and more crap while giving the workers less and less. For example, ‘[i]n May 1940 the ghetto governor Hans Biebow ordered that factories be set up, where the workers would be paid soup and bread. The Lódz ghetto turned a profit of about 350 million Reichsmarks ($140 million). It made so much money for the [Fascists] that it survived the longest of the ghettos under [Fascism], for even the [Fascists] were sometimes prepared to defer mass extermination of Jews as long as it remained profitable.’ — Adam LeBor, Schicklgruber’s Secret Bankers
6. See the introduction of the Krupp–Renn process in the Empire of Japan. ‘Sometime before the autumn of 1938, [Krupp] sent Voss, a chief engineer, to Chongjin, and his job was to guide facilities construction and the start of operations. He was followed by two fitters and one kiln foreman, whose job was to give guidance regarding the start of operations and the handling of equipment thereafter.^34^ Separately, Remag, a German subsidiary of Österreichische Magnesitwerke, sent one bricklayer.^35^ Remuneration for the fitters was based on a rate written into the technology introduction contract and was paid in accordance with the number of hours worked, while the wage for the kiln foreman was fixed at a daily rate of 4 pounds sterling (about 70 yen).’ — Kudō Akira, Japanese–German Business Relations
7. Labor‐intensive industries favor the use of manual or ‘blue collar’ workers, whereas capital‐intensive industries focus on finances and favor ‘white collar’ workers. ‘[T]he Mitteleuropäische Wirtschaftstag aimed to shift Southeastern Europe into more labor‐intensive cash crops for export, such as soybeans. […] German economists similarly saw Serbians, Croatians, and Romanians as capable of “bearing any burden,” perfectly suited for producing the labor‐intensive goods like soybeans and wheat that Germany’s capital‐intensive economy so desperately needed in the 1930s.^13^’ — Stephen G. Gross, Export Empire
8. Laborers striking en masse for better wages. Because they put a halt to production, eventually the capitalist must accede to their demands.
9. ‘Although minimum wage increases are expected to increase prices, the magnitude of price increase depends on several factors such as the demand elasticity and competition degree (Aaronson 2001). A strong effect of minimum wages on inflation is not always found in empirical studies.’
10. The struggles for higher wages relates to socialism (that is, capitalism’s negation) in that the goal is to enhance the standard of living for ordinary people. Equating the struggle for higher wages with the accumulation of capital is a false equivalence because higher wages are necessary for living the modern world, whereas capital is doomed to disappear because it inhibits the lives of the proletariat.
11. For workers paid on the basis of products or services finished rather than time, their wages may be a little closer in value to the products or services, but still inferior. (I know that this is a simplistic and inadequate reply, but at this point I’m exhausted.)

I feel dissatisfied with this comment, but I hope that it is better than nothing.

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.