#Italian Communist Party

[leftistfeminista]

General Secretary Camilla Ravera of the Communist Party, first woman to ever lead a political party, in prison under Mussolini's Fascists

Subheadline: IN CARCERE NEGLI ANNI DEL FASCISMO

Caption: Une fotografia giovanile di Camilla Ravera. Fin dalla giovinezza la Revera si è legata al gruppo di Antonio Gramsci e lo seguì quando questi dimostrò la socialità per fondare il Partito comunista italiano. Arrestata dai fascisti, fu segregata per 7 anni per mandato a confino dove trascorse anni e dove ebbe come compagno anche Pertini. Nonostante tutto è ricordo continuo coi compagni come un periodo felice della mia vita.

Translation:

Headline: Unity

Subheadline: In Prison During the Fascist Years

Caption: A young photograph of Camilla Ravera. From her youth, Ravera was linked to the group of Antonio Gramsci and followed him when he demonstrated his sociality to found the Italian Communist Party. Arrested by the fascists, she was imprisoned for 7 years for a mandate to confinement where she spent years and where she had as a companion also Pertini. Despite everything, she recalls her time with her comrades as a happy period of her life.

l'Unità (Italian: [luniˈta]; English: "the Unity") is an Italian newspaper, founded as the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1924.

Camilla Ravera (18 June 1889 – 14 April 1988) was an Italian politician and the first female lifetime senator. She was also among the driving forces behind Italian feminism.[1]

Ravera participated in the founding of the Italian Communist Party in 1921.[2] She was General Secretary of the party from 1927 until 1930 following the arrest of Antonio Gramsci.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Il signore delle formiche (2022, Gianni Amelio)

08/11/2024

[kneedeepincynade]

There are those who deliver death and those who deliver hope,learn the difference

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🇺🇸 C'è chi bombarda i Paesi, e definisce la Cina una "minaccia", e chi - invece - lavora con i Paesi secondo il Principio della Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢), per edificare una Comunità dal Futuro Condiviso (人类命运共同体) 😍

🥰 L'Amicizia del Laos, del Popolo del Laos e del Partito Rivoluzionario del Popolo Lao è molto importante per la Cina, per il Popolo Cinese e per il Partito Comunista Cinese 🤗

🚝 La China - Laos Railway, uno dei progetti più ambiziosi della Nuova Via della Seta, è la dimostrazione che solo attraverso la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢) è possibile costruire insieme la Prosperità Comune (共同富裕) ❤️❤️

❤️ 人类命运共同体 mostra che l'Umanità (人类, rénlèi) ha un Destino Comune (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🤧 L'Asia non è una scacchiera per i pericolosi e mortali giochi geopolitici delle tigri di carta statunitensi e dei loro leccapiedi in Europa, ma un terreno fertile per lo Sviluppo, la Prosperità e la Stabilità 💕

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🇺🇸 There are those who bomb countries, and define China as a "threat", and those who - on the other hand - work with countries according to the Principle of Cooperation for Mutual Benefit (合作共赢), to build a Community with a Shared Future (人类命运共同体) 😍

�� The Friendship of Laos, the Lao People and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is very important to China, the Chinese People and the Communist Party of China 🤗

🚝 The China - Laos Railway, one of the most ambitious projects of the New Silk Road, is the demonstration that only through Cooperation with Mutual Advantage (合作共赢) is it possible to build Common Prosperity together (共同富裕) ❤️❤️

❤️ 人类命运共同体 shows that Humanity (人类, rénlèi) has a Common Destiny (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🤧 Asia is not a chessboard for the dangerous and deadly geopolitical games of US paper tigers and their toadies in Europe, but a fertile ground for Development, Prosperity and Stability 💕

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[depressedhatakekakashi]

Can i just say, cuz i saw the tag and it’s bothering me a little (as a lover of history)

Yes Japan allied with germany in world ward II, but they didn’t really do it because they agreed with germany. Like i’m not giving Japan a pass on anything they’ve done (they’re very much a coloniser as well)

But Japan joined germany out of anger a spit not out of shared ideology. Japan was angry they got short shafted after world war I where they fought alongside the allied forced and helped win some major battles, and then when it came to making a peace treaty they got nothing.

They didn’t get any labd like britian, france and the USA.

They didn’t even really get invited to be a part of the peace treaty like other countries on the winning side.

Japan joined Germany more out of frustration than being actual fascists. Like, yes. Their country has gone a really sort of terrible way in terms of government and they did commit a lot of war crimes and murder for the sake of getting rid of people they deemed ‘beneath them’

But had the other allied countries shown them even an ounce of respect after world war I maybe they would have stayed on their side.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Canadian Fascist Groups Still Banned," Vancouver Sun. October 16, 1943. Page 2. --- Special to The Vancouver Sun OTTAWA, Oct. 16. - The lifting of the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and five other hitherto illegal organizations still leaves a list of 28 other associations and groups held to be unlawful under the Defense of Canada Regulations. Included in these are three subsidiaries of Jehovah's Witnesses, which remain illegal although the parent body has been set free. These are the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the International Bible Students' Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society Incorporated.

TRACTS SUPPRESSED The IBS came under strong suspicion during the Great War of 1914-18. The Watch Tower societies are publishing organizations for Jehovah's Witnesses and while the Witnesses may now function as a legal organization the authorities have not yet come to the stage of releasing the flood of printed propaganda put out by the subsidiaries. One of these tracts which came under discussion in Parliament proved to include nothing but Biblical excerpts.

Leading the list of still-banned organizations are the Nazi party organizations in Canada: The Auslands Organization of the National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartel, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront and the Deutsche Bund Fur Canada.

Then there are the Italian Fascists organizations, which will still remain suppressed despite the change in the war status of Italy. These were the Fasci Italiani All-Estro, the OVRA, Opere Volontarie Repressione Anti-Fascisto-National organization for the repression of anti-Fascism); the Dopolavoro (after work organization); Associazione Combattenti Italiani (Italian war veterans); Ogel (Italian youth organization abroad); and the Italian United Front (a combination of Italian and Italo-Canadain societies in Montreal, under the control of Canadian Fascio).

BLACK SHIRTS ILLEGAL The ban also stands on Adrien Arcand's Black Shirts (the so-called National Unity Party) and on the Canadian Union of Fascists, the latter a small organization in Ontario and Saskatchewan which was already dying out when suppressed.

While the Ukrainian Farmer-Labor Temple Association has been freed, its youthful annex, the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation is still on the banned list, as is the Workers and Farmers Publishing Association, a UFLA adjunct.

The Communist Party of Canada has had many champions who want the ban on it removed, but no action has been taken.

Nor has the ban been removed from some of its off-shoots such as the Young Communist League, the Canadian Labor Defence League and other organizations such as the Russian Workers and Farmers Club, the Croatian Cultural Association, the Hungarian Workers Club, the Polish People's Association, all of which were banned for Communist tendencies.

Many of the banned organizations had separate publishing companies such as the Croatian Publishing Company, the Polish People's Press, the Serbian Publishing Association. These re- main under suppression.

The League for Peace and Democracy which started out as the league against war and Fascism during the Spanish war still remains on the banned list.

[hellsitegenetics]

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

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[winterbirb]

Analysis: in the US-Italy power dynamic, the US is the senior partner. However, in the opaque etiquette rules of US Diplomacy(tm), it's considered deeply taboo to remind someone of their status as the junior partner. Thus, the culturally specific technique called the American Smile(tm) is used, wherein the American acts friendly in public.

However, no cultural analysis is complete without recognizing the inter-national history of the two participants. The U.S. and Italy have a long historical relationship, notably including World War 2, where one of the major war theaters was against Italy in Africa; with the combined efforts of the Allies, this ultimately led to the public execution of PM Meloni's fascist idol. According to generational analysis, Joseph Biden, born in 1943-ish, is definitely aware that the U.S. whooped Italy's ass. In Africa.

As the current circumstances of the meeting are about potentials for joint U.S.-Italy policy in Africa, it's quite probable that either one or both leaders were aware of this previous joint U.S.-Italy engagement. As with the senior-junior partner dynamic, the arcane rituals of American Diplomacy make vocal acknowledgement a taboo. But the American Smile(tm) acts as a sort of noticeable negative space, saying things through what's left unsaid.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met at the White House on Thursday, vowing to deepen economic ties and strengthen cooperation on challenges posed by China, while skirting differences [sic] over LGBTQ rights.[...]

Meloni and her right-wing coalition have staked out positions on abortion and LGBTQ rights sharply at odds with those of Biden, a Democrat who used last year's Italian election results as an occasion to warn fellow liberals about dangers facing the world's democracies. On Thursday, Biden welcomed Meloni and said they had "become friends," and Meloni later told reporters that neither he nor the several U.S. lawmakers with whom she met brought up LGBTQ rights. "Nobody asked me anything on this," she said. Meloni said she had a clear preference for Republicans, but that would not stop her from having "a great relationship" with Biden.[...] During a small portion of the meeting open to reporters, Biden complimented Italy on what he said was its strong stance on Ukraine. Meloni said she was proud that Italy has helped defend international law. [...] Meloni must decide in coming months over whether to maintain Italy's membership in Beijing's Belt and Road (BRI) infrastructure plan, a program which Washington has been working to counter. [...]

The Biden-Meloni meeting took place less than a week after she hosted an international conference on migration in Rome, as Italy tries to cope [sic] with a high volume of migrants arriving by boat from North Africa. Italy was planning to discuss with the U.S. how to support [sic] the development and stability of Africa, Meloni's office said.

27 Jul 23

[kvetchlandia]

Members of the Manouchian Group, the Armed Anti-fascist Fighters of the FTP-MOI Resistance in Paris, Shortly Before Their Execution by the Fascist Occupiers, Fort Mont-Valérien, Paris 1944

The FTP-MOI was a group largely within the French Communist Party and made up almost entirely of immigrant laborers. They were the most active and most militant of the anti-fascist resistance groups in France. The Manouchian Group was largely made up of Eastern European Jews and also included anti-fascist Italians, anti-nazi Germans, anti-Franco Spaniards (including several veterans of the Spanish Civil War), Armenians and a handful of native French, although most French citizens were in the FTP, not its immigrant brach, the FTP-MOI. 23 members of the group were arrested in November, 1943 and 22 of them were murdered by the nazis at Fort Mont-Valérien in Feb, 1944. Those heroes pictured above, as they awaited their execution, include (l-r): Missak Manouchian (3rd from the left), József Boczov, Wolf Waisbrot, Szlama Grzywacz, Mojsze Fingercweig and Tamás Elek. The other members of the group murdered that day were: Robert Witchitz, Spartaco Fontanot, Célestino Alfonso, Roger Rouxel, Amédée Usseglio-Polatera, Georges Cloarec, Rino Della Negra, Cesar Lucarini, Antoine Salvadori, Emeric Glasz, Marcel Rajman, Yona Geduldig, Leib Goldberg, Armenak-Arpen Manoukian, Szlomo Szapiro, and Stanislas Kubacki. Golda Bancic, the only woman fighter in the group, was not executed that day, since the French wouldn't allow women to be killed by firing squad. Consequently, she was deported to Germany, where she was executed by beheading.

[emily84]

ok, toning down a few embellishments there.

she didn't "beat him nearly to death", first of all. that is the accusation by hungarian prosecution who want to throw her in jail and lose the key. no one has stepped forward to accuse her and no witness has pointed to her as the "perpetrator"

her name is ILARIA SALIS, not Laria. yes, she is an anti-fascist activist, and a teacher. in this instance, her only crime is that she traveled to hungary to a counter-protest after a disgusting far right rally that took place over there. that's it. there were skirmishes at the protest, chaos ensued, but that's what happens usually at these events

what's truly ludicrious is that the hungarian authorities arrested her and she has been kept in jail for months. treated like an animal, chained hands and feet whenever she was due to appear in court at her sham trial. the italian government (also right-wing so, secretly thrilled about this development) had to finally throw their weight around and demand she be moved to house arrest at least.

finally. she faced a sentence of up to 20 (TWENTY) years in jail for a simple fucking misdemeanor. because Hungary is a fucking dictatorship - just imagine how many Hungarian protesters and activists have been jailed and are routinely terrorized and oppressed without the privilege of an Italian passport. we don't hear about them, right???

as for the "communism" part. there is no communist party in italy at the moment. the USA have made sure of that over decades of, let's say, involvement in Italian affairs. the Greens and Left Alliance, the party Salis was elected with, is a left-leaning socialist, progressive party. many former communists vote for them but only because it's the "closest living relative" to what they used to stand for.

this isn't a "get out of jail free card" by the way, or a win whatsoever (except that she finally was released, which we have been protesting nearly a year for). because nothing's stopping, say, the German neonazi party AfD from doing the same thing to save a neonazi on trial for hate crimes.

so, like. Europe is going down a very dangeorus path and there's very little to rejoice here. it's making us who go to protests against the rise of neonazi - far right sentiment in Europe very, very scared.

[ass-arius]

hello fellow tinhats in the mcr tag I would like to add something bc I've seen a lot of people mentioning ties between the long live promo and both swarm tour/wwwy and there's something I haven't seen mentioned yet

A lot of people have brought up the cold war inspo, especially on reddit and I would like to contribute a little gem I found

Kristin Colby shared this post where many noticed the connection between the audience and the wwwy visuals

So I went to the op's (@/pau.lpzlms) page and found their videos from the show and noticed this (this is during famous last words)

Bad screenshot but it pretty clearly says Garibaldi Corps. I haven't found any mentions of it on Twitter or reddit but I did a little wiki dive.

It's easy to think this is actual historical footage of a war rally or something but the name "Garibaldi Corps" only shows results for corporations and companies with the name garibaldi. However the name Garibaldi is commonly used in Italian military, named after Giussepe Garibaldi, a hero of the Italian unification wars, but none of them are called "corps"

there are different brigades/battalion named after Garibaldi in different wars.

•cold war (8th Bersaglieri Brigade "Garibaldi")

A bersaglieri is an infantry troop made up of mostly marksmen or gunmen. This particular brigade was activated in 1975 in the peak of the cold war, along with its sister brigades manin and mamelli, also named after italian unification heroes. When the cold war officially ended in 1991, the garibaldi brigade became the first troop in the Italian army to become fully professionalized.

•world war ii (Brigate Garibaldi)

the cold war brigade was named partially in honor of these units that served during ww2. These were partisan groups composed of mostly communists as well as non-communist members of the national liberation committee and the Italian socialist party fighting against the occupation by n*zi germany in italy as well as italian fascists during the Italian Civil war. According to wiki: "they were the largest of the partisan groups and suffered the highest number of losses. Members wore a red handkerchief around the neck with red stars on their hats."

There are other uses of the name by Italian groups in the Spanish civil war, the American Civil War, during the polish wars in the 1860s, and a French brigade during ww1

It's interesting how the drum is being passed around the audience supposedly during the appearance from his grand immortal dictator, if the concert visuals do correspond with the poster. the ww2 garibaldi units were italian resistance groups against the fascist regime, meanwhile the cold war brigade was a mechanized troop created in response to the threat of the soviet union. In both cases, Russia is the enemy but the first group were rebels and the second are professional soldiers.

It could simply be that Garibaldi is a common name for Italian military units across history and so perfect for this worldbuilding they're going for but I do think allusions to both these specific groups would be very interesting

[leftistfeminista]

On the contrary, that historical process that began in 1789 with the French Revolution concluded its cycle and offers sufficient perspective for a complete analysis. There, too, a maelstrom was opened within the old European society, a new, radical and reckless ideological affirmation, which freed man from the shackles of feudal privileges and offered a new concept of the citizen, in contrast to the old formulas of a society built on inequality and privileges. There too, an uninterrupted process of wars developed to affirm these principles, in an alternating series of progress and setbacks, of revolutions and internal reactions, of dictatorial adventures and counter-revolutionary enterprises on the part of the united Europe. Like the Soviet Union of today, France then exported, with the flags of the Directory and the Napoleonic eagles, a new principle that would be the germ of all future history. When those chapters closed, when the Corsican despot finished his part, the picture that presented itself - whether he had been defeated or victorious - was completely new: the social structure of Europe had been completely transformed. Through the great contrast between the principle of absolutism and the revolutionary principle, a third form of people's regime was created, which does not have the peculiar character of one or the other of these extremes, but is and wants to be a historical expression of its own. France had affirmed the immortal principles of human rights and Europe, although having fought them, and fighting them, ended up assimilating them. "Even defeated Greece triumphed over its fierce victors." It was natural for this process to be more evident, especially in areas of greater friction and wear, in those countries where the struggle developed more violently, where the conflict was more intense. In the countries placed on the limits of the initiating and radiating nation, in Italy and Germany, the reaction-assimilation process was more immediate and rapid, opening the way to new political combinations and new ideological forms that, revived in the great revolutions of 1848, made up irresistible popular affirmations.

Eugene Reale Member of the CC of the Italian Communist Party

1947

[communist-manifesto-daily]

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Part 2

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At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, now representative of Lille in the French Chamber of Deputies, I arranged three chapters of this book as a pamphlet, which he translated and published in 1880, under the title: "Socialisme utopique et Socialisme scientifique". From this French text, a Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian translations, based upon the German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not aware that any other Socialist work, not even our Communist Manifesto of 1848, or Marx's Capital, has been so often translated. In Germany, it has had four editions of about 20,000 copies in all.

The Appendix, "The Mark", was written with the intention of spreading among the German Socialist party some elementary knowledge of the history and development of landed property in Germany. This seemed all the more necessary at a time when the assimilation by that party of the working-people of the towns was in a fair way of completion, and when the agricultural laborers and peasant had to be taken in hand. This appendix has been included in the translation, as the original forms of tenure of land common to all Teutonic tribes, and the history of their decay, are even less known in England and in Germany. I have left the text as it stands in the original, without alluding to the hypothesis recently started by Maxim Kovalevsky, according to which the partition of the arable and meadow lands among the members of the Mark was preceded by their being cultivated for joint-account by a large patriarchal family community, embracing several generations (as exemplified by the still existing South Slavonian Zadruga), and that the partition, later on, took place when the community had increased, so as to become too unwieldy for joint-account management. Kovalevsky is probably quite right, but the matter is still sub judice [under consideration].

The economic terms used in this work, as afar as they are new, agree with those used in the English edition of Marx's Capital. We call "production of commodities" that economic phase where articles are produced not only for the use of the producers, but also for the purpose of exchange; that is, as commodities, not as use values. This phase extends from the first beginnings of production for exchange down to our present time; it attains its full development under capitalist production only, that is, under conditions where the capitalist, the owner of the means of production, employs, for wages, laborers, people deprived of all means of production except their own labor-power, and pockets the excess of the selling price of the products over his outlay. We divide the history of industrial production since the Middle Ages into three periods:

handicraft, small master craftsman with a few journeymen and apprentices, where each laborer produces a complete article;

manufacture, where greater numbers of workmen, grouped in one large establishment, produce the complete article on the principle of division of labor, each workman performing only one partial operation, so that the product is complete only after having passed successively through the hands of all;

modern industry, where the product is produced by machinery driven by power, and where the work of the laborer is limited to superintending and correcting the performance of the mechanical agent.

I am perfectly aware that the contents of this work will meet with objection from a considerable portion of the British public. But, if we Continentals had taken the slightest notice of the prejudices of British "respectability", we should be even worse off than we are. This book defends what we call "historical materialism", and the word materialism grates upon the ears of the immense majority of British readers. "Agnosticism" might be tolerated, but materialism is utterly inadmissible.

And, yet, the original home of all modern materialism, from the 17th century onwards, is England.

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[kneedeepincynade]

The United States are uncapable of accepting that other nations are different and have different systems and this is exactly why the "pax americana" has failed and its why many nations prefere the much more accepting China

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🤮 美国式傲慢 | GLI STATI UNITI NON PROMUOVERANNO MAI IL RISPETTO RECIPROCO E LA COMPRENSIONE RECIPROCA

🤹‍♂️ L'arroganza, mista alla confusione, scaturita dalle farneticazioni del Presidente Biden contro il Presidente Xi Jinping, nuovamente definito dal rappresentante degli imperialisti americani come un «dittatore» non deve essere solo condannata, ma anche analizzata con cura 🤔

💬 Dentro la sua frase, è contenuta la prova che gli USA non hanno alcuna intenzione di promuovere il 相互尊重 - Rispetto Reciproco:

💬 «Guarda, lo è. È un dittatore nel senso che è a capo di un Paese Comunista che si basa su una forma di governo totalmente diversa dalla nostra» 🤹‍♂️

😂 Almeno, questa volta, un rappresentante dell'imperialismo statunitense l'ha ammesso: per gli USA basta non avere un modello politico neo-liberale ed economicamente neo-liberista per essere definito "dittatore" 😂

😂 Cina, Russia, Iran, Corea del Nord, Cuba, Venezuela, Bielorussia, Siria - ogni Paese con un proprio modello differente dal neo-liberalismo statunitense, e con un sistema economico diverso dal capitalismo finanziario monopolistico diventa subito una "dittatura" agli occhi degli imperialisti americani 🤡

🚩 Il Partito Comunista Cinese, tramite tutti i suoi rappresentanti, ha sempre dichiarato che non esistono modelli realmente universali, che la democrazia può assumere varie forme, così come il modello economico, e che nessun Paese può egemonizzare il concetto di democrazia o libertà 😍

🐲 Come spiegato nell'Articolo "民主是全人类的共同价值": «La Democrazia è un Valore Comune dell'Umanità, non un monopolio di pochi Paesi, bensì un Diritto di ogni Popolo» | Essa non ha un'unica forma, bensì molte, costruite e fondate sulle condizioni nazionali e materiali di ciascun Paese, e non è un ornamento brillante da sfoggiare per raggiungere fini geopolitici, bensì una soluzione ai problemi reali del Popolo ⭐️

🔍 中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会 - Come funziona l'Assemblea Nazionale del Popolo? 🚩

🔍 协商民主 - Cos'è la Democrazia Socialista Consultativa? 🚩

🔍 人民民主 - Cos'è la Democrazia del Popolo? 🚩

🤮 Neo-maccartismo da "red scare" e sinofobia da "yellow peril" non promuoveranno mai una comprensione tra i morenti Paesi d'Occidente e la Cina 😡

🇬🇷 Quando, all'inizio di novembre, Kyriakos Mītsotakīs - Primo Ministro della Repubblica Ellenica, si è recato in Cina, il Presidente Xi Jinping ha ricordato che 互相学习 - l'Apprendimento Reciproco era uno dei principi fondanti delle Relazioni Sino-Greche 😍

😍 L'Apprendimento Reciproco porta, necessariamente, al Rispetto Reciproco. Questo non accade mai con gli USA, che intendono sempre esportare il loro modello genocida tramite le sanzioni unilaterali, i tentativi di rivoluzione colorata e persino la guerra 😡

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🤮 美国式傲慢 | THE UNITED STATES WILL NEVER PROMOTE MUTUAL RESPECT AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING

🤹‍♂️ The arrogance, mixed with confusion, resulting from President Biden's rantings against President Xi Jinping, once again defined by the representative of the American imperialists as a "dictator" must not only be condemned, but also carefully analyzed 🤔

💬 Inside his sentence, there is proof that the USA has no intention of promoting 相互尊重-Mutual Respect:

💬 «Look, it is. He is a dictator in the sense that he is the head of a Communist country that is based on a form of government totally different from ours »🤹‍♂️

😂 At least, this time, a representative of US imperialism admitted it: for the USA it is enough not to have a neo-liberal and economically neo-liberal political model to be defined as a "dictator" 😂

😂 China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, Syria - each country with its own model different from US neo-liberalism, and with an economic system different from monopoly financial capitalism immediately becomes a "dictatorship" in the eyes of the American imperialists 🤡

🚩 The Chinese Communist Party, through all its representatives, has always declared that there are no truly universal models, that democracy can take various forms, as well as the economic model, and that no country can hegemonize the concept of democracy or freedom 😍

🐲 As explained in the Article "民主是全人类的共同价值": «Democracy is a common value of humanity, not a monopoly of a few countries, but a right of every people» | It does not have a single form, but many, built and founded on the national and material conditions of each country, and it is not a brilliant ornament to show off to achieve geopolitical goals, but rather a solution to the real problems of the People ⭐️

🔍 中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会 - How does the National People's Congress work? 🚩

🔍 协商民主 - What is Consultative Socialist Democracy? 🚩

🔍 人民民主 - What is People's Democracy? 🚩

🤮 "Red scare" neo-McCarthyism and "yellow peril" Sinophobia will never promote understanding between the dying Western countries and China 😡

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[sayitaliano]

Today marks 40 years since the death of Enrico Berlinguer, a very important Italian politician during our Prima Repubblica. Against fascism, he became part of PCI (Italian Left Wing/Communist Party), in which he acted as secretary-general until the end, caused by a stroke during an assembly on June 4th 1984. He had an important role in the international Communist scene as he firstly took distance from the lines dictated by Russian Communism, which had been the sample until then. He created an alternative version called "Eurocomunismo". He also tried to create the "compromesso storico" with Aldo Moro and DC (Democrazia Cristiana, another Italian Center party) and found a big coalition to get to the government. After his death, at the European elections, his party PCI got more votes than DC for the first time, despite under his guide PCI had been grown as a party too being the second more voted at the National elections after DC.

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itty bitty little northeast hcs bc the asks r dry :(((

they are NOT fun cool life of the party they are SAD GAY LOSERS i do feel this should be broadcast on national tv to confirm the canonness.

that being said. one family dinner with them is actually illegal under the geneva convention due to high level of mental torture.

things start off lovely. they go to maine's little cabin-in-the-woods (STEPHEN KING MY FRIENDS, ITS NOT COTTAGE VIBES!). he will make you wait outside if you are late. he locks the doors and laughs.

unfortuantely, they will not be within five feet of each other during baseball season, under a rule so important gov considers adding it to the constitution.

it is like a grandpa convention lets not lie to ourselves bc there's definitely a part in the night where they just reminisce about the war and vermont will show up with printed-out pictures of some battle monument model he made bc even maine's terrible signal wont stop him.

they have to get new york there by physical force, bc he is doing his level best to sneak his way out. sorry its shabbat (it's actually a tuesday). sorry lost my voice can't come (he's only over said 10 words max). sorry been hit by a car (typa guy to genuinely try and walk off a broken leg).

they have to battle not to bring up politics ooohhh because you know mass's eye is twitching at the thought of being able to debate. connecticut threatens to report him to the authorities as a communist threat. he threatens to throw him through the wall. this is normal sibling behaviour.

typa emotional repression where they'll just be arguing and bickering as normal when one of them will drop the most gut-wrenching sickening personal lore and they all will just refuse to mention it.

oooooohhh yk its got a kick to it when ur sat across from someone who literally took bllets for you telling you ab how life is collapsing around them. anyways new hammy made a salad w craisins and we better switch the topic to that.

speaking of. half of the food is completely inedible. rhode island spent so many years a pirate he has no idea how much salt is too much salt. you CAN eat delaware's food but also be aware he's known for chemical manufacturing so its a 50/50 chance you'll make it.

jersey and york, arguably the only two good cooks, are not allowed to bring food bc they unfortunately suffer from chronic cant-understand-our-families-r-from-different-italian-regions-and-food-might-be-different syndrome.

for some inexplicable reason PA becomes group DJ. the only songs on his phone are 'brand new city' by mitski and 'dont stop the party' by pitbull.

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Political Violence

Reflections from the 1920s and 1930s

Timothy Snyder

Jul 14, 2024

What to make of the assassination attempt?

I am sharing a few thoughts about where we are, based on assassinations during the interwar period, the 1920s and 1930s.  It is distant enough that perhaps we can attend to the examples without too much emotion, and yet close enough to be useful.

We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets.  We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence.  And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most.

None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable.  But it does help us to see how some things that will predictably be said might be unhelpful and untrue. 

Some of Donald Trump’s supporters, including one right-radical senator and one right-radical congressman, were quick to blame the Democrats.  (This is also, of course, Moscow’s line).

Their reasoning might seem intuitive, and clearly did seem intuitive to many people. If a radical-right politician such as Donald Trump is the victim of an assassination attempt, should we not presume that the perpetrator is on the radical left?

No, we should not.

That sort of presumption, based on us-and-them thinking, is dangerous.  It begins a chain of thinking that can lead to more violence.  We are the victims, and they are the aggressors.  We have been hurt, so it must have been them.  No one thinking this way ever asks about the violence on one’s own side. 

And this way of thinking is also very often erroneous.  The history of the far right tells a different story, one in which violence often refracts within and around a political movement that endorses it.

This afternoon I passed by the Austrian parliament, where the chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, was assassinated ninety years ago.  Dollfuss had introduced political violence into the political system, and was very much ruling from the far right.  And he died by political violence nonetheless, by the hand of people who found him not radical enough.

In March 1933, Dollfuss dissolved the Austrian parliament, bringing electoral democracy to an end.  He transformed his political party (and a few other groups, and a right-wing paramilitary) into a new Fatherland Front.  The Fatherland Front government crushed the Left with armed force.  Dollfuss began to build a regime on the model of Italian fascism, defined in Christian nationalist terms.  That was not enough for the most extreme elements of the Austrian right. In July 1934 a group of Nazis dressed as policemen made their way into the parliament, shot Dollfuss, and let him bleed to death.

Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany a few weeks earlier than Dollfuss in Austria.  He too crushed the Left, grouping socialists and communists as “Marxists” and placing them in concentration camps.  He represented the extreme right in German politics.  On the streets, Hitler’s cause was pushed forward by the violent SA (Sturmabteilung), led by Ernst Röhm. Hitler’s rise to the office of chancellor was enabled by conservatives and militarists.  They believed, wrongly, that Hitler’s violent rhetoric would serve their interests.  In the “Night of the Long Knives,” Hitler had Röhm and many of his men assassinated, along with others who had helped bring him to power.

A drastic case of right-wing murderousness in the interwar period was among the various elements of the Romanian far right.  The twists and turns here would take too long to describe. In brief: the fascists who themselves glorified violence were attacked by others on the far right.

To be sure, not all would-be assassins of the period were on the right.  A German carpenter tried to kill Hitler.  A marble worker threw a bomb at Mussolini’s car. 

And the general point about how violence, once authorized, can turn in an unexpected direction, also applies to the far left of the 1920s and 1930s.  A number of Josef Stalin’s fellow Bolsheviks, who endorsed and applied political violence to come to power between 1917 and 1922, were then killed in the name of that revolution in the 1930s. 

That, if anything, just confirms the general point.  We might be tempted to think that violence against one side must come from the other side.  But the bloody genie, once unleashed, often stays close to home.  Those who have made violence normal are especially vulnerable, because they will always have colleagues or followers who think they have not gone far enough.

Of course, not all right-wing assassins killed their fellow right-wingers.  Eligiusz Niewiadomski murdered the centrist Polish president in December 1922.  Niewiadomski seems to have been an unstable personality, whose dreadful beliefs were brought towards action by the media around him. 

As far as we can tell right now, the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump was a registered Republican gun enthusiast.  As more details emerge, the image will clarify.  Assassins are individuals, and their motivations can sometimes be surprising or turn out to be obscure and debatable.

At this point, it is just worth noting that it would not be surprising if the man who tried to assassinate Trump was, like Trump, a right-wing radical.  That would be typical of the United States, where most terrorist acts come from the far right.  It would also be historically normal.  Trump, like extreme-right-wing politicians in the past, has legitimated violence. 

Nothing in recent American political life resembles Trump’s call for “Second-Amendment people” to kill Hillary Clinton, his mockery of Paul Pelosi after an attempted murder, his belittling of Gretchen Whitmer after a kidnapping attempt, the stochastic violence he directs against critics to intimidate them and against his fellow Republicans to keep them in line, the brutal language of his rallies since 2016, his vocal admiration for leaders known to be mass killers, and his violent attempt to overthrow constitutional rule in January 2021.

What matters more than the action, though, is the reaction.  We should all condemn political violence.  We should all proclaim that this next election will be settled by the number of votes, rather than by threats, coups, beatings, or murders.  The media should not spread messages of hatred and baseless conspiratorial thinking.

And we should all be aware of the temptations of martyrdom.

Whatever actually happens in an act of political violence, there will be someone, somewhere, who claims that victimhood means innocence, and that innocence justifies more violence by hands that remain ever blameless.  This sort of logic is already all over the internet.  That move was made in all the fascist cases.  When the German Nazis took over Austria in 1938, they raised a monument to their martyrs.  The Romanian fascists killed to avenge theirs. 

Trump is of similar mind: he refers to the convicted criminals who stormed the White House as “martyrs” and makes them part of his rallies.  He constantly refers to himself as a victim.

One can only hope that he does not escalate such rhetoric, or direct blame where it does not belong.  Doing so won’t help him win an election, but it will make further violence more likely.