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'They raped every German female from eight to 80' | Books | The Guardian
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The regime clearly wanted any form of desire to be converted into love for the party and above all for Comrade Stalin.
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"On the night of 24 February," General Tsygankov recorded in the first of many examples, "a group of 35 provisional lieutenants on a course and their battalion commander entered the women's dormitory in the village of Grutenberg and raped them."
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Marxist Theory of Homosexuality: Past, Present and Future
The struggle for gay and lesbian liberation has the potential to become a significant force in the ongoing struggle to transform capitalism into communism. The most advanced — the most radical — sections of the gay and lesbian liberation movement represent the potential vanguard of the struggle for sexual emancipation in the socialist transition from capitalism to communism. This does not mean that gay and lesbian liberation can or should replace the proletariat as the vanguard of the whole movement of revolutionary struggle and transformation of capitalism into socialism and communism; instead, it means that gay and lesbian liberation can and should become a vanguard within, and as a relatively autonomous part of, the larger proletarian vanguard as this proletarian vanguard carries out the larger task of reconstructing all of social reality in the total movement of revolutionary transformation from capitalism to communism. As such a vanguard within a vanguard, the gay and lesbian liberation movement can become more than a mere addendum to or appendage of the struggle for socialism and communism and can make a substantial contribution to the determination of both the form and the content of the revolutionary transformation of capitalist society and culture into communist society and culture: contributing to the reimagination and reinvention of socialism and communism by (re)shaping principle and program (including long-term, medium-term, and short-term objectives) as well as organization, strategy and tactics.
The 4th Empire « SIOE Stop Islamisation Of Europe
Explaining the headline, the 4th Empire is to be understood as an extension of the 3rd Empire, which was the Nazi dream empire. The intention is to focus on the fact that we are dealing with a totalitarian regime that wishes world dominance. At the same time the headline is meant as a reminder that there is a 4th totalitarian “-ism” although we don’t often consider it as such.
Of course we know the three great totalitarian ”-isms” – Islam, Communism and Nazism.
The headline becomes a bit misleading since the Nazis did not include Islam or Communism in their idea of “the empires”. But the poetry was too tempting to let that detail get in the way.
But as mentioned we know three great totalitarian movements, Nazism, Communism and Islam.
What they have in common is the idea that state and god are seen as a unity, morality and law are seen the same way.
Their approaches are a bit different.
Communism and Nazism both derive from a philosophical tradition
China Digital Times » China Land Reform Disappears from Radar
Scholars and analysts inside and outside of China are discussing this week why the leaders have remained silent on the issue. When the Communist Party’s annual four-day planning session began last Thursday, officials in attendance began reviewing a draft of a sweeping land reform policy that President Hu Jintao was believed to have been backing.
Scholars and government advisers said the proposed policy centered around two major changes: allowing peasants to engage in the unrestricted trade, purchase and sale of land-use contracts, and extending those contracts to 70 years from 30 years. Senior leaders including Mr. Hu intended to push the policy changes through at the session, scholars and advisers said.
But the communiqué issued on Sunday night did not mention that particular land reform policy. Instead, the party said broadly that it was adopting a rural reform policy that would double the per capita disposable income of farmers by the year 2020. Xinhua, the state news agency, said in general terms that the government planned to “set up a ‘strict and normative’ land management system in the countryside.”
China Digital Times » Zhai Minglei: Heart Stone-A Reflection of Tainted Milk
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. Nowadays, the local government is the largest company in terms of managing a city. You can’t blow the whistle if you perform both as the referee and as the athlete.
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To go deeper into this issue, it’s impossible to avoid talking about our political mechanism. For instance, my newly constructed residential area has suffered underground water pipe bursts 29 times within the past year. Residents are filled with desperation. But the Songjiang water company is a monopoly in public sector; it doesn’t have a single rival. You have nowhere to express your rage after “enjoying” the shoddy “tofu dregs” construction. The water company can freely give you a hard time as they are in charge of all water pipes. As a company can be like this, so too can a government. Regardless of how well-intentioned its initial purpose is, the monopoly of a government or political party without rivals will necessarily lead to bad consequences.
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Social Justice: Code for Communism
"The history of all existing society," he and Engels declared, "is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf ... oppressor and oppressed, stood in sharp opposition to each other." They were quite right to note the political castes and resulting clashes of the pre-liberal era. The expositors of liberalism (Spencer, Maine) saw their ethic, by establishing the political equality of all (e.g., the abolition of slavery, serfdom, and inequality of rights), as moving mankind from a "society of status" to a "society of contract." Alas, Marx the Prophet could not accept that the classless millenium had arrived before he did. Thus, he revealed to a benighted humanity that liberalism was in fact merely another stage of History's class struggle -- "capitalism" -- with its own combatants: the "proletariat" and the "bourgeoisie." The former were manual laborers, the latter professionals and business owners. Marx's "classes" were not political castes but occupations.
Today the terms have broadened to mean essentially income brackets. If Smith can make a nice living from his writing, he's a bourgeois; if Jones is reciting poetry for coins in a subway terminal, he's a proletarian. But the freedoms of speech and enterprise that they share equally are "nothing but lies and falsehoods so long as" their differences in affluence and influence persist (Luxemburg). The unbroken line from The Communist Manifesto to its contemporary adherents is that economic inequality is the monstrous injustice of the capitalist system, which must be replaced by an ideal of "social justice" -- a "classless" society created by the elimination of all differences in wealth and "power."
It’s Communism Stupid! » Archive » Obama’s Hidden Problem?
The narcissistic leader is the culmination and reification of his period, culture, and civilization. He is likely to rise to prominence in narcissistic societies.
The malignant narcissist invents and then projects a false, fictitious, self for the world to fear, or to admire. He maintains a tenuous grasp on reality to start with and this is further exacerbated by the trappings of power. The narcissist’s grandiose self-delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience are supported by real life authority and the narcissist’s predilection to surround himself with obsequious sycophants.
The narcissist’s personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement. Most narcissists are paranoid and suffer from ideas of reference (the delusion that they are being mocked or discussed when they are not). Thus, narcissists often regard themselves as “victims of persecution.”
The narcissistic leader fosters and encourages a personality cult with all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. The leader is this religion’s ascetic saint. He monastically denies himself earthly pleasures (or so he claims) in order to be able to dedicate himself fully to his calling.
The narcissistic leader is a monstrously inverted Jesus, sacrificing his life and denying himself so that his people - or humanity at large - should benefit. By surpassing and suppressing his humanity, the narcissistic leader became a distorted version of Nietzsche’s “superman”.
Stop Common Purpose Communist Totalitarian EUCCP
What is Common Purpose? On the surface, Common Purpose is an educational charity which does leadership and networking development training.
In reality, Common Purpose or, more properly, Communist Purpose, is a corrupt, subversive, secretive and sinister
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What is Common Purpose? On the surface, Common Purpose is an educational charity which does leadership and networking development training.
In reality, Common Purpose or, more properly, Communist Purpose, is a corrupt, subversive, secretive and sinister organisation which seeks to destroy the national identity of Britain and to destroy democracy in Britain.
Common Purpose is a recruitment organisation being used to recruit the bureaucrats needed to run Britain when the country is taken over by the European Union.
AIM Identifies Mysterious Obama Mentor As Communist Party Revolutionary.
A mysterious friend and adviser to Barack Obama when he was growing up in Hawaii is identified in a new column by Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid as a member of the old Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA. "Obama's communist connection adds to m
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Following up, in April 2007, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting “in the Democrats HQ in Washington,” met with officials of the party and Democratic members of Congress. The photos of the trip show Rasmussen meeting with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John W. Sweeney, a member of the DSA. The Brookings Institution is headed by former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a proponent of world government who was recently identified in the book Comrade J as having been a pawn of the Russian intelligence service.
The socialist connections of Obama and the Democratic Party have certainly not been featured in the Washington Post columns of Harold Meyerson, who happens not only to be a member but a vice-chair of the DSA. Meyerson has praised convicted inside-trader George Soros for manipulating campaign finance laws to benefit the far-left elements of the Democratic Party. Obama’s success in the Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses is further evidence of Soros’s success. Indeed, Soros has financially contributed to the Obama campaign.
Next on school agenda:Teaching communism
A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional
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Worse yet, the group said, "the bill would also strike the law that prohibits a teacher giving instruction in a school or on public school property from teaching communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," CRI said.
"SB 1322 is simply shocking," said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for the affiliated Capitol Resource Family Impact. "The socialist members of the legislature are now advocating that communism, one of the most brutal forms of government in history, be taught favorably to government school students. Anyone espousing communism, which does advocate for the violent overthrow of existing government, will be permitted to not only use government property, but work in schools and colleges, and teach their freedom-hating propaganda to impressionable young people."
Interview on Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide on National Review Online
If we take just the period after World War II, I’d say the collaboration and support of Communism and the Soviet Union on the part of many European intellectuals and politicians, coupled with hysterical anti-Americanism, was an important sign that Europea
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The suicide is “slow motion” because the forces eroding European civilization are themselves slow-working, compared to the cataclysmic wars of the 20th century. The demographic crisis — Europe’s failure to reproduce — and the economic problems — sluggish economies burdened with expensive social welfare entitlements — and the immigrant problem — unassimilated, sullen, underemployed but fecund Muslims ripe for jihadist recruitment — will take some time to reach a crisis point. But it is likely to be a question of decades, not centuries.
Why Communism Kills
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They affirm that he was referring to the gradual
elimination of property owners by the transformation of the economic system
which Communism would bring to pass. They cannot deny, however, that many
followers of Karl Marx, including Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Pol Pot have
taken this affirmation literally and have proceeded to kill the "middle-class
owners of property" once they have acquired power.
An Interview with John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr
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remember how they reserved special mockery for Reagan’s reference to
the Soviet system as an “Evil Empire.” As I continue to reflect on
what happened to my own family under communism (i.e. both of my grandfathers
were murdered by the Soviet secret police), and what it means that communism
extinguished 100 million lives in the twentieth century, I remain befuddled
by what exactly was so laughable about Reagan’s reference.In any case, when the Soviet archives were opened after the fall of the Soviet
tyranny in 1991, I hungrily devoured all the information inherent in the revelations
in declassified documents, disclosures from former Soviet officials, etc. They
all confirmed and substantiated what conservatives had been arguing for decades
-- and what common sense had long ago instructed -- that the Soviets were totalitarian,
power-hungry and expansionist brutes that started and prolonged the Cold War.When I approached my colleagues with this new evidence, ranging from everything
from the issues of the Korean war, Berlin, Soviet espionage, American communists’
links with the Soviet regime, etc., I showed how I had been correct on every
issue that we had argued about for years.And yet, instead of hearing a mea culpa, a stated regret or admission of some
kind of lesson learned, all that I witnessed, in a manner that remains extremely
eerie for me to remember, was a callous indifference and smug contempt for the
issues at hand. Some of my colleagues articulated a few incomprehensible justifications
of their positions; others just switched topics with remarkable speed and ominous
neglect. All of them condescended to me for being interested in something so
“old” and “ancient.” They patiently counselled me, with
a disdain and arrogance that I will never forget, to stop chasing “old
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Jamie, many of those you speak of live in a different reality
from that of the rest of us. Psychologically, they do not see what you see.
They see the present and the past through a special lens. What is overwhelmingly
clear to them is an imagined future collectivist utopia where antagonisms of
class and race have been eliminated, the economic and social inequalities that
have driven people to crime have been removed, poverty does not exist and social
justice reigns, world brotherhood has replaced war and international strife,
and an economy planned by people like them has produced economic abundance without
pollution or waste. Coupled with this vision of the future is loathing of the
real present which falls woefully short of these goals and hatred for anyone
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