#jakarta method

[katchwreck]

A comic, but based on historic reality:

[enter-the-darkness]

For the record, if you think AAPI folk being upset about appropriation is a fucking PSYOP you are honestly just a fragile little white bitch whose never actually been affected by a US PsyOp and it shows.

Sincerely,

An Indonesian whose Dad Was Chased Out of Indonesia due to American PsyOps

[system-of-a-feather]

OH. That checks.

(tw: increasingly aggressive venting about America)

I was wondering why I am having such relatively strong antisocial urges and need to just ruin everyones day "for no reason" and just remembered Riku has been reading up on how America literally mass murdered "Chinese Communists" put a militant dictator that filled our dads birth country with extreme corruption and capitalism to the point of an economic crash and 30~ years of aggressive extremist violence into the late 1990s.

Like its not a "trigger" perse of mine but it is the shit Im hyper aware of that fuels and contributes to my deep seeded trauma centered desire for the world to burn into a chaotic lawless apocolypse.

Like I don't ACTUALLY want it cause logically I know that as much as it would seem fun and an ideal for >just me< its not actual happiness and joy and would just end up in all the others in this body being miserable

But like, yeah remembering Im living in a country I detest and don't see getting better through non-violent means - yeah that wpuld set off my symptomatic urge to see people be mad and start fires.

*sigh* Maybe I should brush up on Spanish and move to Spain or something so I can live in a country that isnt a putrid bad joke

Like literally uwu Russia is doing war crimes ignore that we bombed a hospital. UwU Middle easterns are doing [insert islamophobia] ignore that we supported and aided basically a genocide on communists in a country we dont belong in by pointing at Chinese people uwu

Literally there are people who say they complain about America cause they want it to be better but honestly, I 100% just hate this country. Vehmently. There is not a single thing I like about this country and anyone who likes anything about this country

(for the indonesia china stuff just look up Sino-Indonesian relations, Sukarno and Suharto for a general summary of the crap)

Literally if you have any shred of positive emotion towards America, Im sorry but I (as a part) specifically hate you.

Straight facts. Patriotism disgusts me. There is literally nothing about being an American to be proud of.

-XIV

[momxijinping]

By 1965, the PKI had three million party members – adding a million members in the year. It had emerged as a serious political force in Indonesia, despite the anti-communist military’s attempts to squelch its growth. Membership in its mass organizations went up to 18 million. A strange incident – the killing of three generals in Jakarta – set off a massive campaign, helped along by the CIA and Australian intelligence, to excise the communists from Indonesia. Mass murder was the order of the day. The worst killings were in East Java and in Bali. Colonel Sarwo Edhie’s forces, for instance, trained militia squads to kill communists. ‘We gave them two or three days’ training,’ Sarwo Edhie told journalist John Hughes, ‘then sent them out to kill the communists.’ In East Java, one eyewitness recounted, the prisoners were forced to dig a grave, then ‘one by one, they were beaten with bamboo clubs, their throats slit, and they were pushed into the mass grave’. By the end of the massacre, a million Indonesian men and women of the left were sent to these graves. Many millions more were isolated, without work and friends. Aidit was arrested by Colonel Yasir Hadibroto, brought to Boyolali (in Central Java) and executed. He was 42. There was no way for the world communist movement to protect their Indonesian comrades. The USSR’s reaction was tepid. The Chinese called it a ‘heinous and diabolical’ crime. But neither the USSR nor China could do anything. The United Nations stayed silent. The PKI had decided to take a path that was without the guns. Its cadre could not defend themselves. They were not able to fight the military and the anti-communist gangs. It was a bloodbath.

Red Star Over the Third World Vijay Prashad, November 2017

The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren’t paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world’s largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences. This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: “Who was right?” In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington. Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins, 2020

[thoughtportal]

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World is a 2020 political history book by American journalist and author Vincent Bevins. It concerns U.S. government support for and complicity in anti-communist mass killings around the world and their aggregate consequences from the Cold War until the present era. The title is a reference to Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, during which an estimated one million people were killed in an effort to destroy the political left and movements for government reform in the country.

The book goes on to describe subsequent replications of the strategy of mass murder, against government reform and economic reform movements in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere.[1][2] The killings in Indonesia by the American-backed Indonesian forces were so successful in culling the left and economic reform movements that the term "Jakarta" was later used to refer to the genocidal aspects of similar later plans implemented by other authoritarian capitalist regimes with the assistance of the United States.[3][4]

[thereadingmoon]

naw, not world war z having a palestinian say “all i thought about israelis my entire life was wrong” and the head of CIA say “the two biggest assumptions about the CIA is that we monitor the world for any threat against america and we have the power to do it”

mr brooks, the third world would like to have a fucking word

[lungfuls]

Reading Eileen. So far do like it better than MYoR&R

[emptyanddark]

Footnote from Bevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. PublicAffairs, 2020.

[lovnelymoon]

I started another book to read so I won't finish the handmaid's tale too quickly. It's just too good

[myrfing]

man.

[aurazoo]

okay time to read and come up with group discussion questions all day

[tiixij]

got a copy of american psycho today btw

[justthekai]

finished reading my first book of '24 it was 'The Jakarta method' by Vincent bevins - I really enjoyed reading it, the insights i gained into world and American politics were amazing and I feel that it's such an important history to know and how it shapes our current world. it impacted my thoughts on globalisation/Americanisation and socialism massively and I won't ever have the same western perspective that I was taught. truly a worthwhile read for everyone. -10/10

[persimmonlions]

In the initial years after World War II, the “Jakarta Axiom” signified a US tolerance for neutral Third World nations — a policy of nonaggression. That changed after a US-backed coup in Indonesia targeted communists, killing anywhere from 500,000 to three million people.

[determinate-negation]

What do you think are the best things to read for baby's first foray into learning about American Imperialism?

against empire by michael parenti, open veins of latin america, the jakarta method, inventing reality: the politics of news media, killing hope: us military and cia interventions since wwii, i cant think of a definitive thing to recommend on the vietnam war rn but i recommend reading about it. i like monthly review for their anti imperialist news and history articles you could look on their website.

you can find all these books on library genesis im pretty sure