Prediction, the take is that the February revolution was a beautiful blossoming of true democracy and liberalism that was derailed by the sneaky ratlike Bolsheviks committing an undemocratic coup and seizing power(undemocratically), establishing an authoritarian(not democratic very bad) no good regime.
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The death toll is a mix of civilians and cops/soldiers, since many cops were sent in unarmed or with like a stick to try and control the situation, so theres some very graphic photos of lynched corpses burned to a crisp, plus some protestors/rioters managed to get a hold of firearms or even an APC with a machinegun in one case, which theres footage somewhere of it firing wildly into the air and driving erratically.
And of course its all over Beijing as well, the "Tiananmen Square" portion of the protests were mostly controlled and not violent, but in other places it was chaos and violence, people throwing molotov cocktails onto trucks.
Civilizations brag about having no homeless people when they are creating the problem they solve(by creating permanent living quarters and shelter).
Also reminds me of anprim ecofash(:a-guy: #ripbozo) who say that bigotry just exists by virtue of people being able to take a break from base survival struggles so the solution is to reduce people back to basic survival conditions.
He refuses to show only one side, he leaves nothing out (even his painful memories of a childhood without a father or of his first experience masturbating)
The Commissar: :jesse-wtf:
The commissar, the man with no face, turns out to be his direct superior Man. Yet, this does not stop Man from subjecting him to torture as part of his reeducation. First, he must admit his crime of being complicit in the torturing and raping of a female communist agent. Then he must realize that he took part, albeit unconsciously, in the murder of his father. Lastly, he must learn Man's final lesson that a revolution fought for independence and freedom could make those things worth less than nothing, that nothingness itself was more precious than independence and freedom. The novel ends with the narrator among a crowd of boat people at sea.
This literally just sounds like the 1984 monologue, hack writing.
Im fairly certain that at this point at least 80% of execs cynically understand that merely portraying suffering and exploitation is not dangerous, and will make people like the product even more for being resonant.
All the local orgs here seem to either be newspaper salesmen or people who just perpetually organise minor protests, so I think I'm gonna try to look into regular "non-political" volunteer work
Beyond parody to just off handedly put minorities in a concentration camp so you dont have to worry about making them real characters.
I feel neutral about it, he was just another faction in the Russian civil war, he used a ton of the same methods as the Red army did, he ultimately lost. That's about it.
Some people are extremely opinionated about him and claim he would have/already did create an Anarchist paradise of freedom, I dont think he would have been able to act much differently than the USSR ultimately did if he wanted to succeed.
Tbh I would in fact classify individualist terrorism like this or like the RAF or any such group as an ultimately reactionary response to failure or delays in the building and sustaining of a movement, I am personally experienced with the extreme frustrations of how weak the left is in the west and the equally extreme desire to just "do something, make a statement", but indulging in revolutionary daydreams of eating the bourgeoise and tearing down their system has never to my knowledge helped aid the left in any meaningful way, and has several times hurt it in the backlash.
This is pretty much the only tactic I can say I instantly will denounce from any leftist movement, others I will try to look at the viewpoint of the people performing the tactics and strategies but just violence for the message of violence is a tactic that has been dead for over a century and is to a large extent self indulgent.
Edit: Also wanna note that the closest the Bolsheviks came to doing similar acts to the propaganda of the deed people, which is robbing banks and cash transports for funding, they tried their hardest to keep a secret cause it would not only cause friction in their party itself, but waving around guns and grenades was very obviously understood to not be the look they wanted to represent them.
Way back with the Bolshevik party they knew individualist terrorism like this is in practical terms worthless, bomb a tsar a new one is born, bomb a factory they build it back up with insurance money and all the while the working class feels less unity with you because they are not radicalized yet and this just scares those who dont just ignore it.
Propaganda of the deed has never worked, I get that people may think "Oh this is cool though" but violence for its own sake or for the coolness of it is not revolutionary. If it doesnt serve a material effect, which in practical terms small scale terrorist actions like these don't, then it must serve as a message, but who receives the message?
The Bourgeoise already know that their actions will cause shit like this, they are not gonna grow particularly more afraid and cautious as a class because of this because there has always been small scale terrorism against them to one degree or another.
The message the proletariat receives is not "We are on your side, we are fighting for you", because the proletariat at large does not yet fight for this or have a conscious desire to fight for this, whatever long piece of theory you associate with your deed will be tainted by the fact that you are doing( to the eyes of the proletariat) random acts of violence for what seems to be your own individual desires. You cant go back afterwards and try to describe to the people why you are doing these acts of violence, the people first have to wish to do all this themselves and be ready to rise up, otherwise you're just some lunatics who set fire to a factory cause you were mad at Elon Musk.
Why is the riddler even a villain and not just like the worlds greatest creator of puzzles, crosswords and riddles?
I know Roderic Day has been writing a bunch about how he wants to reframe propaganda from brainwashing and this is a good example of why, it removes agency in a way that serves to essentially exonerate people for making deals for blood money made from the lives of foreign peoples.
Moreso he prefers to push the idea of going along with propaganda as a rational choice, conscious or subconscious, wether it be for direct material gain or in a way that helps cope with the reality they live in, if china bad then america less bad, and thats somewhat easier to mentally handle, for example. You could still argue within this framework over how acceptable or unacceptable the choice to take blood money is, but it makes it a real choice that someone is deciding rather than a thing they simply cannot helps as a cog in the machine.
This is his full essay on the subject but I havent read it all yet.