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Ein superheißer Ring und Wind mit einem Drittel der Lichtgeschwindigkeit: Wenn viel Masse in kurzer Zeit in ein Schwarzes Loch fällt, wird es noch extremer als ohnehin schon.
In Europe we should keep our eyes on the ball, that is Ukraine, not Gaza or Iran. Our most primary and direct interests (security ,economy) are connected with the fight between Russia and Ukraine. Not saying those other theatres are not relevant but just less important. #ukraine #russia #eu #europe #iran #gaza #israel #geopolitics @geopolitics
like has any tragedy in world history ever taken its turn politely? 🙁 the world isn’t a football field and intl politics not a game of winning and losing (at least not for the majority, the oppressed class)
@aral In the name of understanding them better, I forced myself to read "Atlas Shrugged." It's a book about rich, powerful sociopaths, and it celebrates their sociopathy. It did help me understand how their minds work, and I did not lose anything of myself. I did, however, find it very, very depressing. That's because I don't think what makes them the way they are is curable with reason. It can only be dealt with by larger numbers of us.
Österreich hat einen umfassenden Sachstandsbericht zur Klimakrise veröffentlicht. Da stehen sehr wichtige Dinge drin, die man wissen sollte. Und für alle, die die 800 Seiten nicht lesen möchte, diskutieren wir den Inhalt in unserem Podcast "Das Klima": dasklima.podigee.io/142-dk142-… #aar2
#Hamburg Gesucht wird jemand, der sich im Miet-/Sozialrecht auskennt und pro Bono helfen kann.
Folgender Fall: Eine mir bekannte Person bezieht Bürgergeld und hat eine andere, ehemals wohnungslose, Person per Untermietvertrag mit in die Wohnung genommen. Amt für Wohnungshilfe/Jobcenter der WL hat den Vertrag genehmigt, aber die Leistung nicht auf das Mietkonto ausgezahlt. Die WL Person ist untergetaucht und hat Nachrichten blockiert.
I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.
I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.
I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.
So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.
My current communities: - News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health. - Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community. - Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.
Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.
slrpnk.net doesn't require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn't have the restrictions you mention.
But if you only use that email account for authentication to the system and it's not tied to you, they have no way of tying it back to you. It's just an anonymous email address.
that now has your IP address and your host string, as well as matching your ID to any sales trackers you happen to have, basically all you need to uniquely identify a user across sessions
In December of 2011, a writer named Ross Beeley addressed the following open letter to a fellow gym-goer. Benedict Cumberbatch joined us to read this extraor...
Having developed a vi allergy at a young age, I've only ever memorized one vi command, arguably the most important one for people like myself: :q!. Luckily I haven't spotted that one in any text files yet. I don't think it would have the desired effect!
Ein Gericht entschied, dass die Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen rechtswidrig sind. Es folgten koordinierte rechte Angriffe auf die Justiz. Diese Delegitimierung unseres Rechtsstaates müssten wir vehement bekämpfen. Doch Dobrindt handelt stattdessen fatal. volksverpetzer.de/analyse/unab…
Tödlicher Unfall Lipsiusstraße: Seit Schaffung der Radroute Ost argumentieren wir für eine Eindämmung des enormen, unkontrollierten Schleichverkehrs durch das Wohngebiet, der die Radroute am Stresemannplatz mittig durchschneidet. Wann macht die Stadtverwaltung endlich ihre Arbeit?
Übermäßiger Schleichverkehr ist neben zu hohem Tempo ein wesentlicher Faktor für die gehäuften Unfälle. Dort kracht es seit über 20 Jahren regelmäßig:
2004 - 2006: 9 Verletzte 2022 - 2024 19 Verletzte
Schleichverkehr unterbinden, Tempo auf 30 reduzieren! Alles andere ist Arbeitsverweigerung.
“I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.”
~ Hermann Goering (1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
Das Ende einer Ära .. Das nördliche weiße Nashorn, das 55 Millionen Jahre überlebte und Eiszeiten, Erdbeben, Meteor -Streiks erlebte konnte Menschen nicht überleben. Das große Tier ist jetzt funktionell ausgestorben David Attenborough Fight for #biodiversity evangelische-zeitung.de/der-le…
Bis zum letzten Atemzug: Arte zeigt in einer Dokumentation das von Pflegern begleitete Aussterben einer Nashornart im Sudan. Wissernschaftler versuchen unterdessen, die Art durch Klonen zu retten
Weitersagen! Das #Deutschlandticket gilt im Sommer in der Région Grand Est in Frankreich. Für alle unter 28 Jahren aus #BaWü. Fahrten bis Paris sind möglich. Saarland und Rheinland-Pfalz machen auch mit.
🚴♂️ Wie fahrradfreundlich sind unsere Straßen? Basis der Bewertung des ADFC-Fahrradklima-Tests: Über 180.000 Radfahrende haben bundesweit abgestimmt – Kriterien waren u.a. Sicherheit, Infrastruktur und Miteinander im Straßenverkehr.
Bei der alljährlichen Befragung kommt raus: Kiel bleibt Spitzenreiter in Schleswig-Holstein, in Niedersachen ist es Hannover, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Greifswald. Hamburg liegt bundesweit im Städte-Ranking auf Platz sieben.
Faszination #Wetter: DWD-Kollege Thomas Möller kam heute etwas später als gewohnt zur Arbeit: Bei diesem Anblick von #Bodennebel im Gegenlicht bei Sonnenaufgang in der Lüneburger Heide musste er kurz stoppen.
Wechsel zu Rüstungskonzern: Ex-SPD-MdB Johannes Arlt wird Senior Vice President des Drohnenherstellers STARK. Aufgabe: Partnerschaften und Netzwerke ausbauen. Arlt saß bis März 2025 im Verteidigungs- und Wirtschaftsausschuss. 🧵 hartpunkt.de/johannes-arlt-wir…
Johannes Arlt, der in der zurückliegenden Wahlperiode die SPD im Verteidigungsausschuss des Bundestages vertreten hat, wird ab sofort beim europäischen Verteidigungsunternehmen STARK die Position als Senior Vice President bekleiden.
Familie bei Abschiebung brutal getrennt: Behörden schieben Mutter und Kinder trotz Erkrankung und laufender medizinischer Behandlung ab – Sächsischer Flüchtlingsrat
Mit Entsetzen verurteilen wir die Abschiebung von Familie C. aus Dresden am vergangenen Donnerstag nach Georgien. Während der Familienvater schwer krank auf der Intensivstation lag, setzten die Beh…
Gab es eigentlich jemals von Sachverstand geleitete Politik?
Mich macht u.a diese überflüssige ausschließlich ideologie- und interessegeleitete Geschichte von Reiche bzgl. Gaskraftwerken sehr wütend. Dann denke ich daran, dass unter Kohl Kupferverkabelung vor Glasfaser bevorzugt wurde, weil ... habe ich schon wieder vergessen. Können mal alle ihren Job machen und nicht nur ihre Bauchnabel betrachten?
Könnt ihr mir helfen? Ich suche einen Thriller eines französischen Autors oder noch lieber einer französischen Autorin, nicht zu blutrünstig, eher Spannungsaufbau durch besondere Stimmung.
Voraussetzung: Das Buch müsste ins Deutsche übersetzt sein.
Erstaunlicherweise gelte ich mittlerweile in der EINRICHTUNG in einigen Kreisen als erfahrene Kollegin, die Tipps für innerinstitutionell sinnvolles strategisches Verhalten geben kann.
“If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties. It is the struggle for the future of all mankind. It will be severe, it will be lengthy. Whoever seeks physical comfort and spiritual calm let him step aside. In time of reaction it is more convenient to lean on the bureaucracy…
"If our generation happens to be too weak to establish Socialism over the earth, we will hand the spotless banner down to our children. The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties.
Musk’s fortune wobbles as #Tesla hemorrhages talent; one third of execs gone, thousands laid off, innovation stalled, stock in freefall. Analysts warn that workforce shrinkage and backlash over Trump ties may vaporize the wealth fueling his empire. www.rawstory.com/mus...
Elon Musk is now facing an uphill battle after stepping away from his position as an advisor to Donald Trump to focus his attention on his embattled Tesla automotive company.
Lese in den Social Media, Klöckner habe gesagt , der Bundestag sei „kein Ort für politische Stellungnahmen“. Das ist doch Fake, oder? Wo sollte denn sonst der Ort für politische Stellungnahmen sein?
Eine neue Studie hat herausgefunden, dass Republikaner (Rechte) auf Twitter mehr als doppelt so oft Fakes verbreiten als Demokraten. Gecheckt via Community Notes, nicht Faktenchecker. Wenn Faktenchecker meistens Rechte checken müssen, dann nicht aus Vorurteil oder Agenda. Rechte lügen einfach mehr.
„Ein ganz besonderer Tag“ für Innenminister Karner – aber auch für Kriminelle, autoritäre Staaten & dubiose Firmen, die von den Sicherheitslücken profitieren, die ÖVP, SPÖ & NEOS mit unseren Steuergeldern fördern wollen. #Bundestrojanerots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20…
‼️ Bei allen Kriegen tun mir immer nur die betroffenen Menschen leid. So wie jetzt die vielen wunderbaren, mutigen Menschen der iranischen Opposition. Die werden nun zerrieben zwischen Islamofaschisten und Faschozionisten - der totale Horror 😔
Autos und Lkw sollen flüssiger durch Düsseldorf fahren können. Dafür wird sogar die eindeutige Priorisierung für Bus und Bahn eingeschränkt. Welchen Ansatz die Stadt verfolgt und was ein „Grüne-Welle-Tool“ ist.
In the latest episode of the Sanchez Effect, Rick travels through the beautiful and strategically important cities of Crimea, the pearl of the Black Sea.
Ob Scheuer, Spahn oder Dobrindt – rechte Akteure hinterlassen gern einen Scherbenhaufen. Oft kommen sie dann auch noch ungeschoren davon. taz.de/!6091530
Jens Spahn hat in einer Notsituation patriotisch den Mann geheiratet, der die teuersten Masken für unser Vaterland hatte. Wir sind ihm zu tiefsten Dank verpflichtet, dass er sich professionell und privat für uns alle so aufopfert.
Das Frustrierende ist: Obwohl WhatsApp jetzt Werbung zeigt, werden die meisten trotzdem dort bleiben – aus Bequemlichkeit, aus Angst vor Veränderung oder weil sie denken, bei den Alternativen ist »eh keiner«. Dabei wird hingenommen, wie Konzerne immer mehr Kontrolle und Datenhoheit an sich reißen. Am Ende marschieren die Nutzer wie Lemminge ins eigene digitale Gefängnis – freiwillig.
Was man dagegen tun kann? Weiter Aufklären, Alternativen nutzen, konsequent wechseln – und aufhören, Bequemlichkeit über digitale Selbstbestimmung zu stellen.
Eins meiner analogen Foto-Arbeiten aus der Fachoberschule für Gestaltung mit dem Titel "Rumhängen in Neuperlach". Ich hänge über einer Unterführung und das entspannte Gesicht täuscht.
Climate change may have been shoved to the sidelines of public discourse of late. But climate change deniers remain as active as ever, using AI to help push their lies and conspiracies, and beavering their way into Canada. #ClimateChange #climate #canada nationalobserver.com/2025/06/1…
Councillors have been left scrambling to warn their colleagues before more municipalities abandon their net-zero commitments, after conspiracy theories resurrected from the US Tea Party swamped their communities.
Der Rechtsextremist (und AfD Bundestagsabgeordnete) Maximilian K. hat zwei selbst angezettelte Gerichtsverfahren gegen mich, den Comedian Jan Böhnemann 🤨, verloren und schuldet mir jetzt VIEL Geld. 😂 Der Nazi ist leider seit Monaten abgetaucht und für das Gericht postalisch nicht zu erreichen ... 🤔
Watch the replay of the call between Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA project astronaut. This call took place at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June. Project astronaut Uznański-Wiśniewski joined from quarantine ahead of the upcoming Ignis mission mission.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the Ignis mission features an ambitious technological and scientific programme. It includes several experiments proposed by the Polish space industry and developed in cooperation with ESA, along with additional ESA-led experiments.
Trump loyalist cautions: attack on Iran could shatter #MAGA faith. Vance backs strikes, Carlson and Greene rebel. The White House is split between hawks and isolationists; a strategist says base loyalty evaporates if bombs fall. www.rawstory.com/don...
Watch the replay of the ESA-European Commission press conference with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, held at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June 2025.
Weil ja gerade einige Leute für einen Krieg gegen den Iran sind, wegen der möglichen Entwicklung von Atomwaffen:
Natürlich will niemand, dass Atomwaffen in die Hände von kriegerischen, brutalen Regimes fallen, die schlimme Verbrechen begehen. Und es wäre schon sinnvoll diesen Einhalt zu gebieten.
Was ist denn eigentlich das schlimmste Verbrechen, was so ein Schurkenstaat auf Internationale Ebene begehen kann, wenn man diesen nicht davon abhält?
Wenn über den Krieg Israels gegen den Iran gesprochen wird, weil dieser möglicherweise Atomwaffen entwickelt, und dieser Staat Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit begehen könnte. Verstehe schon dass man das Regime absetzen will.
Warum man sich dafür mit einem Staat verbünden sollte, welcher gerade ein Verbrechen aus schlimmsten Kategorie die das Internationalen Recht kennt, begeht? Das macht natürlich keinen Sinn.
Am Ende geht's den Leuten, die billigen, dass Israel den Iran angreift, oder gar fordern dabei mitzumachen halt nicht darum dass sie Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, Völkerrechtsbrüche oder Unterdrückung von Bevölkerungsgruppen, oder Atomwaffenbesitz solchen Regimes schlimm finden.
Es ist für sie halt nur das falsche Regime was diese Verbrechen begeht. Mit den Verbrechen an sich sind sie vollkommen fein. Wäre es anders, dann würden das Regime zuerst stoppen, auf welches sie Einfluss haben.
Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Wednesday, the sixth day of strikes in their most intense confrontation in history, fuelling fears of a drawn-out conflict that could engulf the Middle East.
Iran has killed "a significant number" of officers and commanders in strikes on Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and military intelligence centers, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.
We can certainly wait a long time for reliable verification or falsification from the Western media.
As Aron Maté has already commented (see link below), #Israel passes on very few (rather none) details of Iranian attacks and targets, whether on infrastructure or military and civilian personnel.
To push war on Iran, Trump sides with Israel over US intel aaronmate.net/p/to-push-war-on… (https://www.aaronmate.net/p/to-push-war-on-iran-trump-sides-with)
IDF censor updates restrictions on reporting missile, drone impact sites
"Any person who prints or publishes printed matter or a publication regarding the location of a strike or hit by enemy war materiel," must submit to the military censor for approval.
Padilla was scheduled w/ Noem, had passed security, asked the FBI & National Guard if he could go listen to unscheduled press briefing. The FBI & National Guard escort him INTO her briefing, opening the doors for him. He opens his question by identifying himself, is standing beside these agents, yet gets arrested, faces censure bc fascists. How do you barge in and lunge when the FBI escorted you in, held the doors? #Noem #shoots #pets #cosplay #dog #killer #fascist #USAabcnews.go.com/Politics/padill…
Senator Bernie Sanders is the senior senator from Vermont. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history and the ranking member of the ...
New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'
> Signal groups, in particular, are more powerful than you might be aware of, even if you already use them all the time. In this post I'll show you how to:
- Turn an in-person meeting into a Signal group using QR codes - Manage large semi-public groups while still vetting new members - Make announcement-only groups, perfect for volunteer networks rapidly responding to things like ICE raids
**Using Signal groups for activism** by @micahflee
Long before the internet, some phone networks were hackable by playing a single tone at 2600Hz.
Whistled into a phone, it could grant you unrestricted access. Do you have the vocal chops to be an old-school phone phreak?
I built a web app to test your ability to produce the legendary frequency. You won't get free long distance calls but you will get some honor in the knowledge that you could have been a cool hacker. 😎
I am sad to say that I can only whistle up to 1100Hz... But my wife (a long time woodwind player) is able to consistently get it.
Over a period of three days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from numerous African countries in the margins of the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of th…
"Seit über 600 Tagen wird die ganze Zeit bombardiert, Hilfslieferungen werden verhindert, Menschen sterben, Menschen verhungern. Es ist für uns sehr schwer zu verstehen, warum das zugelassen wird." Interview mit einem Arzt des medico-Partners PMRS in Gaza
At today's #PMQs, Daisy Cooper reminded the house that "Today the government is set to cut #PIP and Carers Allowance and that 1.3 million people are at the risk of losing some support. So can the Deputy Prime Minister, hand on heart, say this was they change that the #disabled people were promised?"
Rayner crassly replies that "Labour is the part of work, and we have vowed to get Britian working again"
Heraclitus once stated, “a man never steps into the same river twice,” which implies that both the river and the man are continuously changing. The United States, and we as its citizens, are also constantly changing, but change can be man...
Israeli army continues to attack Palestinian civilians, including women and children, as they group near 'supposed' food distribution points installed by USA's GHF. The scenes near these distribution points reflect inhumane and undignified process that aims at weaponizing food and creating a new system of disorder.
Como dije hace mucho tiempo, estaba buscando una app para pc para inventariar mi librería personal en local, que es una pasada (+ de 1000libros, de locos). Como no encontré ninguna me satisfaciera ya que calibre lo utilizo para los ebooks al final decidí crear uno con java en cuanto terminé los exámenes de DAM. Lo estoy haciendo en java. En cuanto lo tenga lo subiré a GitHub por si le interesa a alguien. Aunque eso sí, es un proyecto personal y será mi primera app, así que haber cómo me sale.
But theyll use whatever they can get. The kind of opposition you're talking about isn't going to patriotically adhere to the current Iranian government because of the attack. They aren't "Democrats" to the government's "Republicans".
@heretical_i I know is more complicated than that. My point is that you have to be blind to not see what is happening. This is not the 70's or 80's when the CIA could "planned and work out" a coup and nobody would question anything. Today we can SEE in a minute what's going on. Even if the powers to be try to change the narrative so Hard.
A compilation of a series of lectures by Liu Shaoqi (Mao Zedong’s number-two man and the President of Communist China) at the Yunan Institute of Marxism-Leninism in 1939, this book was more popular in Communist China than the works of Chairman Mao! For decades it was required reading for all party cadre on discipline and individual self-cultivation.
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.
This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of economic, social and political domination. The book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the 'piggy bank' system - treating students as passive, empty vessels - to preserve their authority and maintain a culture of silence. Through cooperation and dialogue, Freire suggests, the authoritarian teacher-pupil model can be replaced with critical thinking so that the student becomes co-creator of knowledge. Crucial to Freire's argument is the belief that every human being, no matter how impoverished or illiterate, can develop an awareness of self, and the right to be heard.
"State and Revolution" (1917) describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution. It describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes. Whether a dictatorship or a democracy, the State remains in the control of the ruling class. Even in a democratic capitalist republic, the ruling class will never willingly relinquish political power, maintaining it via various strategies. Hence, according to this view, communist revolution is the sole remedy for the abolition of the state.
“This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important – if not the most important – phenomena of modern capitalist economy.” – V. I. Lenin
During the First World War, Lenin found himself isolated, but he was not afraid to fight against the stream. He dedicated all his strength to educating and training the Bolsheviks on the basis of the genuine ideas of Marxism. His masterpiece, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, is an immortal monument to his work in the vital field of theory.
No book has ever explained the phenomena of modern capitalism better. Indeed, all of Lenin’s predictions concerning the concentration of capital, the dominance of the banks and finance capital, the growing antagonism between nation states and the inevitability of war arising out of the contradictions of imperialism have been shown to be true by the entire history of the last 100 years.
Using the empirical evidence and statistics at his disposal, Lenin explains that, in the stage of imperialist monopoly capitalism, the entire economy is under the domination of the banks and finance capital. Today, over 100 years after it was first published, this domination is 100 times greater.
This audiobook contains three major works on Marxism: The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.
Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.
Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are.
"A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." —The Catholic Journalist
"By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a 'rational' and integral component of the system."—Stan Goff, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. Author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, his writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
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Description: This is a very early (1847) FAQ file for Communism, written by Karl Marx's main collaborator, Frederick Engels. Engels had previously written "Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith," which uses a similar, catechistic format of questions and answers, but this document is better-developed. However, Engels still did not find it satisfying and wrote to Marx, "“Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...”
Timestamps for those coming back to this video, or those who want a specific question answered: 0:00 Channel introduction 0:43 Front matter 1:25 1. What is Communism? 1:33 2. What is the proletariat? 2:03 3. Proletarians, then, have not always existed? 2:25 4. How did the proletariat originate? 5:39 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place? 7:05 6. What working classes were there before the industrial revolution? 7:55 7. In what way do proletarians differ from slaves? 9:11 8. In what way do proletarians differ from serfs? 10:20 9. In what way do proletarians differ from handicraftsmen? 11:28 10. In what way do proletarians differ from manufacturing workers? 12:16 11. What were the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution and of the division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat? 17:02 12. What were the further consequences of the industrial revolution? 18:25 13. What follows from these periodic commercial crises? 20:17 14. What will this new social order have to be like? 21:41 15. Was not the abolition of private property possible at an earlier time? 24:16 16. Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible? 25:12 17. Will it be possible for private property to be abolished at one stroke? 25:39 18. What will be the course of this revolution? 29:50 19. Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone? 31:10 20. What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property? 36:42 21. What will be the influence of communist society on the family? 37:36 22. What will be the attitude of communism to existing nationalities? 38:00 23. What will be its attitude to existing religions? 38:21 24. How do communists differ from socialists? 38:29 (How do communists differ from) Reactionary Socialists 39:51 (How do communists differ from) Bourgeois Socialists 40:36 (How do communists differ from) Democratic Socialists 41:40 25. What is the attitude of the communists to the other political parties of our time? 44:05 Footnotes
Aral Balkan
in reply to Erik Jonker • • •How disconnected from humanity do you have to be to call an ongoing GENOCIDE “less important?”
I hope I never understand how some of your minds work because I’m afraid of what I would lose within myself were I ever to do so.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Brad Macpherson
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@aral Hopefully this is a nuance of language - not less important, but less urgent from the point of view of European security.
From a human point of view, though, both are extremely urgent along with the even-less-reported-upon wars in Africa and Asia.
Professor_Stevens
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •In the name of understanding them better, I forced myself to read "Atlas Shrugged." It's a book about rich, powerful sociopaths, and it celebrates their sociopathy. It did help me understand how their minds work, and I did not lose anything of myself. I did, however, find it very, very depressing. That's because I don't think what makes them the way they are is curable with reason. It can only be dealt with by larger numbers of us.