Communists might on first glance appear like wizards or sorcerers when they hold wands adorned with crimson cloth or when they don caps inscribed with the carmesin pentagram, and they certainly share their love of physical tomes to carry with them, however they differ from those classes in that they like to flock together, and it is not uncommon to encounter a whole party comprised entirely of communists
The DDR Museum is actually cool, it is mostly just a lot of finds that were unique about everyday life in East Germany. There are small lib exhibits about prison, the Stasi, and the Berlin Wall, but these are stuffed away in the corners and no one cares about them. People go there for the Plattenbau replica, the Trabant and Wartburg cars, and the thousands of collector items. Be advised though, it is packed.
Absolutely do not go to the "Cold War Museum" that promises to tell "two sides of the same story". It doesn't, it's expensive as hell, there's barely anything in there, and you have to scan QR codes to see what the exhibits are about. You can have a lot more fun in the Espionage Museum and the Deutschlandmuseum.
As a communist, it is mandatory that you go to the Soviet monument (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) in the Treptower Park. It was built by and in commemoration of the Soviet soldiers who fought against fascism in the Great Patriotic War. Just a few metres outside, people go running with their dogs, play annoying music, and have picnics. You enter the gate and you are suddenly in another domain, the weight of history overwhelms you like an invisible wall. It is a place of calm, where only the sound of willow and poplar trees rustling in the soft wind breaks the silence. It is a place of rest, mourning those who gave their lives to liberate Europe and honouring their remains. But it is also a place that celebrates victory, with its giant statues and the two red granite flags, the white sarcophagi inscribed with golden quotes of Stalin in Russian and German, and the triumphal mosaic atop the burial mound.
If you wonder about the location well outside the city centre, it is because Treptower Park is also the place where the already-banned KPD had their secret final meeting in 1933, inside the Archenhold public observatory. This is also a good place to check out if you are interested in astronomy, given that it has a small visitor centre with a free exhibition and that Einstein gave his first lecture about General Relativity there.
Look, the problem here isn't even that you insulted your Jewish grandparents by taking pictures with an SS volunteer. The problem is that you were part of a crowd that would strip naked and take a shit in the Chamber if everyone else did it. The problem is your boundless conformity to the crowd, your inability to stop and ponder, and your tendency to impulsively react to any stimulus whatsoever as if you were a squirrel on speed. Fascism doesn't succeed because of some sexist truckers from the Yukon. It succeeds because of people like you.
This is a dangerous assertion to make, in part because it is still too early and uncertain to say very much about BRICS, in part because apparent collapse is indistinguishable from the natural development of sufficiently advanced capitalism
This is bullshit, everyone knows that your height is artificially increased by the gravitational tension your spine experiences hanging from a petrol station
Homesteaders are like kids that fling pebbles at the bulletproof glass of the tiger pit. No matter how hard they keep trying, they fail to fully escape the guardrails of modern science and the workers' movement that protect them from a life that is nasty, brutal and short, they don't realise that to regress to living "off the grid" is neither possible nor desirable, and they think they are being brave or smart when they are really just a minor nuisance to the rest of society
If you look at any modern revolution, 9/10 of the people needed to carry it out have not been involved in any physical fighting. We are not just talking about culinary or medical workers who are active during the actual revolution, we are also talking about workers in infrastructure, communication, or administration who organise beforehand and then just refuse to carry out their bourgeois or feudal masters' orders in a strategic, coordinated manner. Before the Civil War and the Intervention, the October Revolution actually overthrew the transitional government in a bloodless coup, because it was well-organised. The majority of fighting happens after the revolution when reactionary splinters of the army revolt against the new government and have to be subdued by the faction that is loyal to it. If this faction is sufficiently large and well-organised, it will not need to drag civilians into the fighting.
Collapse is a different story. Especially in the first few months, depending on how bad it gets, you will be on your own, and you will need to get physical to procure your own food, clothing, and other necessities of life. Sadly, this seems to be the more probable route right now.
Building a "fascist box" out of asbestos in Bayreuth, performing Wagner's Ring cycle for him and a bunch of other Nazis, and torching the box with flamethrowers when the Weltenbrand scene comes up
No, obviously there were exploiters and rent-seekers during the Bronze Age, but capital has a distinct dynamic as opposed to other means of production such as land, namely that it can be expanded: A hectar of land in an agrarian society only produces so much grain, vegetables, or livestock every year, but the only upper limit for the production of machinery is the amount of available labour.
A land-owner can only expand at the expense of other land-owners, while capitalists also can - and are even required to - expand at the expense of the workers they employ. They use machinery and labour to obtain wealth and then use that to obtain more machinery, and so on. This arrangement has a dynamic of exponential growth, which no previous form of production had, and therefore capitalists are in a position to shape society in vast excess of what land-owners can and could do.
There weren't any capitalists around the time of Jesus' death. The word "Capitalist" refers to someone who extracts surplus value from labour by owning the capital - either machines and factories, or the financial means thereto - which workers operate. A capitalist can only exist in the context of industrialing or industrialised society, and there were no such societies during the Bronze Age.
It won't be pretty outside, but hey! Most likely you will be spending big chunks of the year in your bedroom due to the increasing likelihood of the thawing permafrost unleashing even more deadly pandemics anyway
Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Nazi holocaust in the 1940s
I wonder if they managed to extract any information vegetable, animal, or mineral
Communists might on first glance appear like wizards or sorcerers when they hold wands adorned with crimson cloth or when they don caps inscribed with the carmesin pentagram, and they certainly share their love of physical tomes to carry with them, however they differ from those classes in that they like to flock together, and it is not uncommon to encounter a whole party comprised entirely of communists
So these camps Che built for homosexuals, were they anything like the modern Western gay conversion camps?
If you killed the king, don't run around with the crown
The DDR Museum is actually cool, it is mostly just a lot of finds that were unique about everyday life in East Germany. There are small lib exhibits about prison, the Stasi, and the Berlin Wall, but these are stuffed away in the corners and no one cares about them. People go there for the Plattenbau replica, the Trabant and Wartburg cars, and the thousands of collector items. Be advised though, it is packed.
Absolutely do not go to the "Cold War Museum" that promises to tell "two sides of the same story". It doesn't, it's expensive as hell, there's barely anything in there, and you have to scan QR codes to see what the exhibits are about. You can have a lot more fun in the Espionage Museum and the Deutschlandmuseum.
As a communist, it is mandatory that you go to the Soviet monument (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) in the Treptower Park. It was built by and in commemoration of the Soviet soldiers who fought against fascism in the Great Patriotic War. Just a few metres outside, people go running with their dogs, play annoying music, and have picnics. You enter the gate and you are suddenly in another domain, the weight of history overwhelms you like an invisible wall. It is a place of calm, where only the sound of willow and poplar trees rustling in the soft wind breaks the silence. It is a place of rest, mourning those who gave their lives to liberate Europe and honouring their remains. But it is also a place that celebrates victory, with its giant statues and the two red granite flags, the white sarcophagi inscribed with golden quotes of Stalin in Russian and German, and the triumphal mosaic atop the burial mound.
If you wonder about the location well outside the city centre, it is because Treptower Park is also the place where the already-banned KPD had their secret final meeting in 1933, inside the Archenhold public observatory. This is also a good place to check out if you are interested in astronomy, given that it has a small visitor centre with a free exhibition and that Einstein gave his first lecture about General Relativity there.
All roads are dark before the sunrise
Look, the problem here isn't even that you insulted your Jewish grandparents by taking pictures with an SS volunteer. The problem is that you were part of a crowd that would strip naked and take a shit in the Chamber if everyone else did it. The problem is your boundless conformity to the crowd, your inability to stop and ponder, and your tendency to impulsively react to any stimulus whatsoever as if you were a squirrel on speed. Fascism doesn't succeed because of some sexist truckers from the Yukon. It succeeds because of people like you.
This is a dangerous assertion to make, in part because it is still too early and uncertain to say very much about BRICS, in part because apparent collapse is indistinguishable from the natural development of sufficiently advanced capitalism
This is bullshit, everyone knows that your height is artificially increased by the gravitational tension your spine experiences hanging from a petrol station
Homesteaders are like kids that fling pebbles at the bulletproof glass of the tiger pit. No matter how hard they keep trying, they fail to fully escape the guardrails of modern science and the workers' movement that protect them from a life that is nasty, brutal and short, they don't realise that to regress to living "off the grid" is neither possible nor desirable, and they think they are being brave or smart when they are really just a minor nuisance to the rest of society
If you look at any modern revolution, 9/10 of the people needed to carry it out have not been involved in any physical fighting. We are not just talking about culinary or medical workers who are active during the actual revolution, we are also talking about workers in infrastructure, communication, or administration who organise beforehand and then just refuse to carry out their bourgeois or feudal masters' orders in a strategic, coordinated manner. Before the Civil War and the Intervention, the October Revolution actually overthrew the transitional government in a bloodless coup, because it was well-organised. The majority of fighting happens after the revolution when reactionary splinters of the army revolt against the new government and have to be subdued by the faction that is loyal to it. If this faction is sufficiently large and well-organised, it will not need to drag civilians into the fighting.
Collapse is a different story. Especially in the first few months, depending on how bad it gets, you will be on your own, and you will need to get physical to procure your own food, clothing, and other necessities of life. Sadly, this seems to be the more probable route right now.
They really wanted a daughter to name her "Methany", but they got a son instead
I just searched Cruz' status, and I am deeply worried, disturbed, and disgusted that the recipe apparently did not contain him
Oh no it's Goth Kimberly Guilfoyle
These aren't real bodyguards though, they are body doubles of bodyguards
Building a "fascist box" out of asbestos in Bayreuth, performing Wagner's Ring cycle for him and a bunch of other Nazis, and torching the box with flamethrowers when the Weltenbrand scene comes up
No, obviously there were exploiters and rent-seekers during the Bronze Age, but capital has a distinct dynamic as opposed to other means of production such as land, namely that it can be expanded: A hectar of land in an agrarian society only produces so much grain, vegetables, or livestock every year, but the only upper limit for the production of machinery is the amount of available labour.
A land-owner can only expand at the expense of other land-owners, while capitalists also can - and are even required to - expand at the expense of the workers they employ. They use machinery and labour to obtain wealth and then use that to obtain more machinery, and so on. This arrangement has a dynamic of exponential growth, which no previous form of production had, and therefore capitalists are in a position to shape society in vast excess of what land-owners can and could do.
There weren't any capitalists around the time of Jesus' death. The word "Capitalist" refers to someone who extracts surplus value from labour by owning the capital - either machines and factories, or the financial means thereto - which workers operate. A capitalist can only exist in the context of industrialing or industrialised society, and there were no such societies during the Bronze Age.
It won't be pretty outside, but hey! Most likely you will be spending big chunks of the year in your bedroom due to the increasing likelihood of the thawing permafrost unleashing even more deadly pandemics anyway