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In addition to the 6 links in the two posts above, here now is a seventh.
Some use of the internet including deepl reveals that it is from an conspiratorialist anti-migrant speech by Viktor Orbán on 15 March 2016 saying, to start with, ‘In Europe today it is forbidden to speak the truth’.
(How was this arrived at? Beginning from looking up ’tilos kimondani’, the Hungarian for ‘it is forbidden to say/speak’.)
Music for non-sung speech by the group Tin Men and the Telephone.
I find this a genius marriage of (excellent) music and text.
ALB will have to tell us what Marine Le Pen is saying.
The last two (next post) are from Trump talking.
First three:
And here is the preface (in English) to the German translation:
First german translation of an important work on the period of transition
Regarding the booklet by L.L Men, ‘Two Texts for Defining the Communist Programme’ ( here https://libcom.org/article/ll-men-two-texts-defining-communist-programme ),
it, or rather the ‘What is Socialism? part of it, has recently (!) been published in German by Red & Black Books.
See council-communist Fredo Corvo’s ‘Critical Notes on L.L.Men, “What is Socialism?” ‘:
(If you read Spanish, also click ‘Spanish with a critique by Aníbal’.)
That SLP review mentioned by Almamater of the Jennings book is on (newspaper) page 2 here, just under ‘at large’:
‘First Tel Aviv anti-war demonstration reveals the limits on protest in today’s Israel’:
First Tel Aviv anti-war demonstration reveals the limits on protest in today’s Israel
Much much more interesting, an interview with Milei in the Economist (no firewall):https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/yqYUdj
Here is what they say about Milei at the Mises Institute:
And, by the way, here is Michael Rectenwald, who is seeking the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party in the US:https://rectenwald2024.com
He’s an ex-left-communist ex-comrade of Loren Goldner’s.
‘Let’s bury little Nickolai along with his mother’.
The mother being Dagmar of Denmark, widow of Alexander III.
But for an empress she could have been worse. Kropotkin (‘The Present Crisis in Russia’. 1901) relates:
‘It so happened, however, that when the police were beating the students on the Neva bridge, the Dowager Empress passed by, and was cheered by the students. So she spoke to her son: “They were quite loyal,” she said; “they cheered me. Why do you allow the police to treat them so brutally?” The result was that the ex-Minister of War, General Vannovsky, was appointed to make a general inquiry. He proved that there was not the slightest reason for calling in the police, lectured the police authorities, canceled nearly all the orders of exclusion of students, and released all of them.’
I am baffled:
1) The statement ‘Banned in both China and Taiwan!’ is utter nonsense. On what basis is it made?
2) There is already a thread where the Internationale is posted, why start another one, and why with the title ‘Forgotten history’?
3) Why has the intent to post a Chinese-language version of the song resulted in seeking it from a channel apparently devoted to alternate history (‘Kaiserrreich’)?
4) If this posting was meant as a joke (to me an incomprehensible one), why not put it in ‘Off Topic’?
Further, despite the illustrious ur-history, just like red flags, the Internationale (supposing it had much merit even to start with) has been totally besmirched by its use by stalinists and other leninists. (Just one example: it was after all, the national anthem of the USSR until 1944.)
It may be objected that stalinists and so on likewise make use of the CM, Capital etc etc, are these too to be abandoned because of ‘contact pollution’? No. Texts have substance. Red flags and the Internationale are only of symbolical significance, and there is no need to try to ‘reclaim’ them or otherwise fight over patrimony rights.
KAZ, are communist anarchists also overcome by a rush of pleasing neurotransmitters upon hearing the Internationale, or are they a bit smarter than that? (Or perhaps, there are versions with obviously anarchist lyrics, a bit parallel to the De Leonist or IWW or Charles H Kerr version having ‘The Industrial Union Shall be the human race’ for ‘L’Internationale sera le genre humain’?
Article by the group Friends of the Classless Society: ‘Germany at War’:
