Well....if you follow the Frankfurt school crowd....their agenda is to bridge socialism and Communism. So you look around and there just aren't that many countries that fit this build. The East Germans aren't around anymore....the Russians are mostly 99-percent capitalistic in nature....the Chinese may chat about Communism, but their whole philosophy is now capitalism.
So it can't be a nation-state. Any journalist suggesting this angle of state-sponsored terrorism, and trying to link it to the Russians? Another fraud.
It has to be a non-state operation or sponsorship.
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Austromarxism, Riots, and Antifa's Philosophy
About a decade prior to WW I....some intellectual guys in Austria came this philosophy that they wanted to recommend to the general public....call Austromarxism.
The basic selling point was that you'd kinda dump the idea of states existing, and just lean toward people or groups of people running things themselves. A borderless society....so to speak.
This really didn't go too far, and the war years dampened discussions over capitalism.
Around 1921, a big meeting is held, and this one particular group has taken on the idea of bridging socialism and communism....within Europe. Their big selling point? Changing the economic rules of society....adding city-provided housing....introducing free healthcare....and standardized education.
It's worth admitting that for just over a decade....these guys made an attempt to sell this philosophy around Europe, but in particular.....Germany.
The chief guy trying to make the sell in Germany? Carl Grunberg. He became the first professor brought into the Gotha University of Frankfurt (1924). For roughly five years....he developed the school/group direction. In 1929.....he had a stroke and retired.
The Frankfurt branch of Grunberg? It goes on....until 1933....where the theme is harshly counter-attacked by the Nazi Party.
This group of Marxists....was considered a prime target of the Nazis, and had already been 'let go' out of the SPD Party of Germany right before WW I.
What happens after 1934? Members of the intellectual group leave and set up shop in NY City (Columbia University), and stay there until the war ends. Then they return after the war to Frankfurt.
Closely connected to the 1968 student riots? Yes.
Chief goals....anything that marginalized people desire. The chief 'chief'? Capitalism and commerce....the 'evil' of modern day society.
The basic selling point was that you'd kinda dump the idea of states existing, and just lean toward people or groups of people running things themselves. A borderless society....so to speak.
This really didn't go too far, and the war years dampened discussions over capitalism.
Around 1921, a big meeting is held, and this one particular group has taken on the idea of bridging socialism and communism....within Europe. Their big selling point? Changing the economic rules of society....adding city-provided housing....introducing free healthcare....and standardized education.
It's worth admitting that for just over a decade....these guys made an attempt to sell this philosophy around Europe, but in particular.....Germany.
The chief guy trying to make the sell in Germany? Carl Grunberg. He became the first professor brought into the Gotha University of Frankfurt (1924). For roughly five years....he developed the school/group direction. In 1929.....he had a stroke and retired.
The Frankfurt branch of Grunberg? It goes on....until 1933....where the theme is harshly counter-attacked by the Nazi Party.
This group of Marxists....was considered a prime target of the Nazis, and had already been 'let go' out of the SPD Party of Germany right before WW I.
What happens after 1934? Members of the intellectual group leave and set up shop in NY City (Columbia University), and stay there until the war ends. Then they return after the war to Frankfurt.
Closely connected to the 1968 student riots? Yes.
Chief goals....anything that marginalized people desire. The chief 'chief'? Capitalism and commerce....the 'evil' of modern day society.
Something About the Kenti Cloth
So this photo of Pelosi and the Democrats in the Capital building has been on my mind. You know....the one of them wearing Kenti cloth around their shoulders.
So I dug into this.
The cloth in this epic moment comes from Ghana, and from the Ashanti tribe. It's distinctive.
Well....here's the odd thing....Ashanti folks were deep into the slave trade....all way into the mid-1800s.
They grasped the economic power of wars....capturing opposing tribal folks, and selling them.
So in some aspects....without much research on Pelosi's part....they put on the Kenti and in some weird way attached themselves to slavery.
So I dug into this.
The cloth in this epic moment comes from Ghana, and from the Ashanti tribe. It's distinctive.
Well....here's the odd thing....Ashanti folks were deep into the slave trade....all way into the mid-1800s.
They grasped the economic power of wars....capturing opposing tribal folks, and selling them.
So in some aspects....without much research on Pelosi's part....they put on the Kenti and in some weird way attached themselves to slavery.
Something to Think About
If both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are 'law and order' guys....how does any guy go and vote in November?
This is pretty confusing with defunding, riots, looting and statue-toppling.
Maybe Biden is law-and-order 'lite'?
This is pretty confusing with defunding, riots, looting and statue-toppling.
Maybe Biden is law-and-order 'lite'?
Observing the Riots
Just ten things that come to mind:
1. There just is a lot of similarity to the 1968 riots in West Germany. The slogans, the chatter, the student-involvement, the anti-capitalism talk, and the stance against the government.
Antifa and the Red Army Faction? Same basic story.
2. I think all of the top 100 Chancellors of universities in the US....have to be having meetings with their security team and talking over the approaching fall semester, and the return of the students.
If active riots occur on campus territory? They'd probably go and shut down the college entirely until the next semester. Refunds? Go explain to the campus staff, and professors....that the semester is shot, and that salaries are going to be diminished in some fashion.
Some kids, I suspect....who were on some 4-year schedule....will be kicking themselves and the system....they just bought into a 5th year....to achieve a 4-year degree.
3. The more that students talk at these riots and explain their logic or reason....the more that viewers get the idea the kid never got much past the 8th grade.
If you are a 3rd college kid and people start to question your education attained...that's a sure hint that the degree business you are pursuing....isn't worth $80,000.
4. What is an autonomous zone?
I had to sit there for a while and look over the Seattle riot....to understand what they said, and what it really meant.
Basically, you've chased out some cops (maybe less than a dozen) and declared an area without law. So if another group of 200-odd people showed up with shotguns and such....they could annihilate you and it'd be perfectly legit. Then some other group could arrive to annihilate them. And after that another group, some others could come and counter-annihilate the anti-annihilaters.
5. It's probably the best time in thirty years to re-read '1984'.
6. In the end, it seems....fascism is just modern-day anti-Communist socialism.
I've been waiting for some CNN 'expert' to suggest this, but it's been a long wait.
7. For any Army guy who was around Somalia during the brief US period there, and observing the War-Lords with their 'gangs' at work....this whole thing has become the same script and same scene.
8. The defunding the police chatter? In the past two days....that really softened up and seems to be going modification of the police in some ways....less military equipment, no choke-holds, etc.
9. Interest in NFL football in the fall? Forget about it. Figure a one-third to 50-percent loss in TV income and seat sales. The league at this point? Doomed.
10. If you live in Seattle or Minneapolis....why would you bother staying?
So a final note and question....to climax all of this and bring peace....all we have to do is vote Biden in November? That doesn't seem to make much sense, in a logical world.
1. There just is a lot of similarity to the 1968 riots in West Germany. The slogans, the chatter, the student-involvement, the anti-capitalism talk, and the stance against the government.
Antifa and the Red Army Faction? Same basic story.
2. I think all of the top 100 Chancellors of universities in the US....have to be having meetings with their security team and talking over the approaching fall semester, and the return of the students.
If active riots occur on campus territory? They'd probably go and shut down the college entirely until the next semester. Refunds? Go explain to the campus staff, and professors....that the semester is shot, and that salaries are going to be diminished in some fashion.
Some kids, I suspect....who were on some 4-year schedule....will be kicking themselves and the system....they just bought into a 5th year....to achieve a 4-year degree.
3. The more that students talk at these riots and explain their logic or reason....the more that viewers get the idea the kid never got much past the 8th grade.
If you are a 3rd college kid and people start to question your education attained...that's a sure hint that the degree business you are pursuing....isn't worth $80,000.
4. What is an autonomous zone?
I had to sit there for a while and look over the Seattle riot....to understand what they said, and what it really meant.
Basically, you've chased out some cops (maybe less than a dozen) and declared an area without law. So if another group of 200-odd people showed up with shotguns and such....they could annihilate you and it'd be perfectly legit. Then some other group could arrive to annihilate them. And after that another group, some others could come and counter-annihilate the anti-annihilaters.
5. It's probably the best time in thirty years to re-read '1984'.
6. In the end, it seems....fascism is just modern-day anti-Communist socialism.
I've been waiting for some CNN 'expert' to suggest this, but it's been a long wait.
7. For any Army guy who was around Somalia during the brief US period there, and observing the War-Lords with their 'gangs' at work....this whole thing has become the same script and same scene.
8. The defunding the police chatter? In the past two days....that really softened up and seems to be going modification of the police in some ways....less military equipment, no choke-holds, etc.
9. Interest in NFL football in the fall? Forget about it. Figure a one-third to 50-percent loss in TV income and seat sales. The league at this point? Doomed.
10. If you live in Seattle or Minneapolis....why would you bother staying?
So a final note and question....to climax all of this and bring peace....all we have to do is vote Biden in November? That doesn't seem to make much sense, in a logical world.
Pretending to Be 'Good' Versus Being 'Good'
I noticed off of Twitter yesterday....some discussion had started up over the idea of people now focused on 'pretending' to be good....instead of actually being good. It's an interesting discussion.
There are various things over the past decade which would indicate that a fair number of people are obsessed with 'looking' good or pretending to be good. It's like the youth crowd trying to get into ivy league schools, and having to pretend on a number of accomplishments while 15 and 16 years old....to entice the board at the ivy league school to accept them finally at age 18.
You see a lot of internal discussion going on with Christian groups/churches now....with some wanting to admit that they aren't doing 'good', or wanting to admit some guilt or shame. Oddly, the same group can't find it in themselves to physically do some good....they just want to walk around and admit being a bad sort of 'good'.
You see politicians obsessing over doing good....but the more you examine their deeds...it seems to be pretending mostly, and the deeds list never goes past three lines.
Kids are sitting there and observing all of this, then thinking....why bother being good....I'll just go the easy route and pretend as necessary. It's a bad point for society to accept this type of behavior.
There are various things over the past decade which would indicate that a fair number of people are obsessed with 'looking' good or pretending to be good. It's like the youth crowd trying to get into ivy league schools, and having to pretend on a number of accomplishments while 15 and 16 years old....to entice the board at the ivy league school to accept them finally at age 18.
You see a lot of internal discussion going on with Christian groups/churches now....with some wanting to admit that they aren't doing 'good', or wanting to admit some guilt or shame. Oddly, the same group can't find it in themselves to physically do some good....they just want to walk around and admit being a bad sort of 'good'.
You see politicians obsessing over doing good....but the more you examine their deeds...it seems to be pretending mostly, and the deeds list never goes past three lines.
Kids are sitting there and observing all of this, then thinking....why bother being good....I'll just go the easy route and pretend as necessary. It's a bad point for society to accept this type of behavior.
The WaPo and 'Slaves'
I sat there and tried to grasp this.....the Washington Post went and did a big research article over slavery existing in the world today (2020).
Their facts.....near 30 million from around the world who are 'slaves' today. The really guilty countries? India, Pakistan, twenty counties of Africa, and to a lesser degree....Russia, Poland and several eastern European countries.
Curiously, it then gives you the information that 60,000 slaves exist within the US.
The suggestion here is that various people were 'smuggled' into the US, with the idea of serving some master....for a debt of getting into the US.
Looking over this definition....I'm almost agreeable to the 60k number but generally find this whole article lacking. It should have told the whole US smuggling story in-depth, and how various characters are making this occur. Adding to this....why is there no real police effort to undo this 'slave' problem if it does exist?
One would think that Pelosi and McConnell would both be all hyped up and make some massive deal to undo slavery existing in the US.
Their facts.....near 30 million from around the world who are 'slaves' today. The really guilty countries? India, Pakistan, twenty counties of Africa, and to a lesser degree....Russia, Poland and several eastern European countries.
Curiously, it then gives you the information that 60,000 slaves exist within the US.
The suggestion here is that various people were 'smuggled' into the US, with the idea of serving some master....for a debt of getting into the US.
Looking over this definition....I'm almost agreeable to the 60k number but generally find this whole article lacking. It should have told the whole US smuggling story in-depth, and how various characters are making this occur. Adding to this....why is there no real police effort to undo this 'slave' problem if it does exist?
One would think that Pelosi and McConnell would both be all hyped up and make some massive deal to undo slavery existing in the US.
Comparison of Antifa and RAF
I started this chat yesterday.....talking over the possibility that Antifa is simply the 'step-child' of the German Red Army Faction. So today, a comparison.
1. How the RAF got started.
One has to go back to 1968, before the RAF was ever organized and discuss the 'student riots' in West Germany.
The protests? They circle around four key components: anti-traditionalism (basically suggesting everything done since 1949 and the reorganization of German politics was a failure), standing up against the West German political machine, suggesting an anti-Fascism trend by pointing at Nazis being part of the political apparatus, and finally....this execution-style hit on Benno Ohnesorg in West Berlin (1967) by a city policeman.
I probably should lay out the fact that around two decades after the Ohnesorg shooting....the cop involved was determined to be a East German agent, and it was likely part of some conspiracy. This rarely gets discussed today, but it's a curious part of the story.
Oddly enough, I should also point out in this time period (in the five years before the 1968 riots)....an odd separation occurred with the SPD Party, and the student group under them. This far-left student group (kinda like the Bernie folks) felt that extreme change was necessary, and the SPD Party was leaning more toward step-by-step change.
I also have to mention that anti-capitalism was another element of the student movement and the 1968 riots as well.....which is an identifer of the Antifa movements today.
A theme of anti-middle-class values? Yes, the student movement in 1968 in West Germany also injected this into the discussion as well. People were 'guilty' of living enriched lives (where have you heard this discussion).
The Germans, ever famous for inventing words....eventually came to this 1968 period of protests and movements....making a new word for the occasion:
Vergangenheitsbewältigung. The translation? You basically have to go and work through your past problems....admitting screw-ups....rectifying the 'wrongs', and making people happy.
The more you think about Vergangenheitsbewaltigung....this is precisely what the Antifa movement wants out of the crisis today. It's not just the Trump administration, it's whites who must admit some type of privilege (whether real or not), carriers of capitalism to admit guilt, the police to admit guilt, city governments to admit guilt, and so on. It's supposed to be a collective group of wrongs, and everyone then gets over their guilt by admitting it.
At this point, I would suggest we are in the riot portion of the script, with 1968 being similar to 2020, and the true RAF replacement being a year or two down the road.
2. Manpower.
The RAF in the beginning stage (roughly 1971, three years after the riots) basically amounted to the Baader-Meinhof 'gang'. Total numbers? A dozen....that's it.
Out of a population of 60-million? Yes....just a dozen members of the original RAF gang....what was the original RAF of the period.
3. Philosophy of the original gang.
The students-turned-revolutionaries had a fair amount of connection to the 'Frankfurt school' (thinkers such as Oskar negt, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas)
They were connected to various counter-cultural and anti-capitalism movements.
They were attached to various beliefs that far-left socialism (in other parts of the world) would improve German society.
They were connected to various Marxist writers of the past.
4. The need for 'repressive tolerance'.
A Frankfurt school 'thinker' offered up the basis for what you'd see in both the RAF and Antifa movements....with repressive tolerance.
The term basically means whatever you are doing today....in terms of governing, leading, or exercising in a society....is basically wrong. It basically says that as you send signals against the 'right'....you are on the side of corrective activity, and doing a good deed for society itself.
This is what the Antifa crowd (unknowingly) is aimed upon.
More tomorrow.
1. How the RAF got started.
One has to go back to 1968, before the RAF was ever organized and discuss the 'student riots' in West Germany.
The protests? They circle around four key components: anti-traditionalism (basically suggesting everything done since 1949 and the reorganization of German politics was a failure), standing up against the West German political machine, suggesting an anti-Fascism trend by pointing at Nazis being part of the political apparatus, and finally....this execution-style hit on Benno Ohnesorg in West Berlin (1967) by a city policeman.
I probably should lay out the fact that around two decades after the Ohnesorg shooting....the cop involved was determined to be a East German agent, and it was likely part of some conspiracy. This rarely gets discussed today, but it's a curious part of the story.
Oddly enough, I should also point out in this time period (in the five years before the 1968 riots)....an odd separation occurred with the SPD Party, and the student group under them. This far-left student group (kinda like the Bernie folks) felt that extreme change was necessary, and the SPD Party was leaning more toward step-by-step change.
I also have to mention that anti-capitalism was another element of the student movement and the 1968 riots as well.....which is an identifer of the Antifa movements today.
A theme of anti-middle-class values? Yes, the student movement in 1968 in West Germany also injected this into the discussion as well. People were 'guilty' of living enriched lives (where have you heard this discussion).
The Germans, ever famous for inventing words....eventually came to this 1968 period of protests and movements....making a new word for the occasion:
Vergangenheitsbewältigung. The translation? You basically have to go and work through your past problems....admitting screw-ups....rectifying the 'wrongs', and making people happy.
The more you think about Vergangenheitsbewaltigung....this is precisely what the Antifa movement wants out of the crisis today. It's not just the Trump administration, it's whites who must admit some type of privilege (whether real or not), carriers of capitalism to admit guilt, the police to admit guilt, city governments to admit guilt, and so on. It's supposed to be a collective group of wrongs, and everyone then gets over their guilt by admitting it.
At this point, I would suggest we are in the riot portion of the script, with 1968 being similar to 2020, and the true RAF replacement being a year or two down the road.
2. Manpower.
The RAF in the beginning stage (roughly 1971, three years after the riots) basically amounted to the Baader-Meinhof 'gang'. Total numbers? A dozen....that's it.
Out of a population of 60-million? Yes....just a dozen members of the original RAF gang....what was the original RAF of the period.
3. Philosophy of the original gang.
The students-turned-revolutionaries had a fair amount of connection to the 'Frankfurt school' (thinkers such as Oskar negt, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas)
They were connected to various counter-cultural and anti-capitalism movements.
They were attached to various beliefs that far-left socialism (in other parts of the world) would improve German society.
They were connected to various Marxist writers of the past.
4. The need for 'repressive tolerance'.
A Frankfurt school 'thinker' offered up the basis for what you'd see in both the RAF and Antifa movements....with repressive tolerance.
The term basically means whatever you are doing today....in terms of governing, leading, or exercising in a society....is basically wrong. It basically says that as you send signals against the 'right'....you are on the side of corrective activity, and doing a good deed for society itself.
This is what the Antifa crowd (unknowingly) is aimed upon.
More tomorrow.
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