Thomas_More
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I guess Kropotkin was a Nazi too, for opposing Lenin? Not to mention Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldmann?
The Nazi Dalai Lama has written a superb book on science: The Universe in a Single Atom. I strongly recommend it. An excellent Nazi work!
MATERIALISM NEED NOT BE REDUCTIONIST.
And in China it was obligatory to read them, and anyone not showing the appropriate enthusiasm was punished.
And this was a state that punished infants as young as six in the same way as adults, including breaking limbs etc.
Right away, before even, at “liberation” the horrors and mass murders began. But tens of thousands of people resisted too, and cadres were also killed by angry villagers.
All of this was over a decade before the “cultural revolution” of the sixties, which everyone mentions as though it was something different, so I hope that young resisters today aren’t believing that Maoism was somehow
“better to begin with.”Mao handed down killing quotas for each province. Commissars vied to match or surpass these.
One of the most prolific was Teng Hsiao-p’ing, who ruled the south-west.
Will Putin really allow the annexed territories and Crimea to go to Ukraine?
My guess is either:
Next year will see a massive Russian blitzkrieg on Ukraine,
Or: Putin has decided to hold the areas he has and will concentrate on defending them in a perpetual border war.
And risking nuclear war is also irrational from every point of view, isn’t it? But they’re doing it.
It doesn’t seem real right now, that soon we will be dying horribly and everything about us destroyed. I still watch old movies on TV, I still read, I still function at home. It is the weather I like: sunny and crisp.
I seem to have buried in the back of my mind my biggest fear. Yet it comes to the fore a few minutes after waking up in the morning, and every time the news sounds more menacing. Then I have to stop reading and go to bed.
But still it doesn’t seem real.
If it happens I want it instant and without warning. I don’t want a govt announcement or text. I don’t want to be regimented or made to take anti-radiation medicine, be forced to leave my home and my cats and be herded by police and soldiers.
So it looks like we are heading for WW3, and China won’t fail Russia over Ukraine, because it requires Russia as an ally in the coming conflagration.
But this was specifically England, and was prior to the Counter-Reformation – which transformed the Catholic Church into an apt vehicle for mercantile capitalism.
I think your point would be better made in returning to an age when Catholicism did in fact represent feudalism, causing the rift between the Pope and the rest of the universal Church in 1054 (which held sway in non-feudal lands still under the old chattel slave system of Imperial Rome).
The western Church changed with western European society from that time onward; the eastern Church stayed still, like Byzantium itself.
The popes granted dispensations allowing the Lombards exemption from the usury laws and the Church was often in a position of championing – like in Liege – the rights of towns against nobles, as the towns increased in importance.
Obviously, England has a unique history here, which cannot be transposed abroad.
I’m not denying that, but i’m challenging the view that the Catholicism of the early modern period stood for feudalism and that protestantism of all schools stood for capitalism. I have shown that this was not the case.
Capitalism began in the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, where both bourgeoisie and nobles were Catholics. In Germany Luther became the representative of the feudal lords. Most of Europe entered capitalism as Catholic and remained so, as members of a reformed Catholic Church. Central European nobles fighting centralising monarchies embraced protestantism.
