Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct https://x.com/CreativeDeduct/status/2060050113163084158
In 1932, as the Holodomor famine was killing millions in Ukraine, the British socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb travelled to Stalin’s USSR, then returned home to produce a 1,200-page love letter to the Bolshevik regime. Their two-volume book Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?(1935) is a notorious example of wilful intellectual blindness from two of Stalin’s most useful idiots.
The Webbs, the intellectual power couple of the Fabian Society, spent two months on a carefully stage-managed tour of the Soviet Union. What they claimed to have seen was not the reality of a totalitarian nightmare but a “new civilisation” superior to anything the West could offer. They insisted there was no forced labour, no famine, and that the secret police existed only to protect the people. Unemployment had been “abolished”, trials were fair, and Stalin was portrayed as a wise, benevolent planner guiding the country toward true democracy.
Even as the Great Purge made the horrors of Stalinism impossible to ignore, the Webbs never issued a full retraction. Two of Britain’s most influential socialists, who through the Fabian Society and the Labour Party helped shape the intellectual climate that produced the post-war welfare state and nationalisations, used their considerable prestige to whitewash mass murder and totalitarian control - all for ideological purposes. Their book showed how easily collectivist intellectuals abandon truth to cover for the fantasy of a planned utopia.

Klasika

https://x.com/Le_Crapaud47/status/2059851168017260602

už se chystá zítřejší alegorická výzdoba na střelák

Dlouho nebylo historické okénko

OtD 26 May 1970 Black auto worker Gary Thompson was killed at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit due to inadequate safety. Workers went on wildcat strike the next day, partly organised by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

E61-62: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers – Working Class History
https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

HONZA09: A kdo na tom obrázku vymyslel kapitalismus?

MOTASH: Tady máš obrázek kapitalismu :D

HONZA09: Kapitalismus někdo vynalezl? A mohla bych ho vidět?

POPELAVY: Vis jak, z Nyxu mam nekdy pocit, ze naciste/fasiste tvori 97.3% populace. ;-)

NJAL:
1. Za tu dobu se počet dolarových miliardářů téměř zdvojnásobil.
2. Jejich moc za tu dobu vzrostla (jsou majiteli sociálních médií, AI ad.).
3. Ne všichni nalevo od tebe jsou komunisté, vždyť to by komunisty bylo 97,3 % populace.