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Privacy for the plebs  -  transparency for the powerful

Old cypherpunk proverb

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Power of positive deterministic thinking

 Gorky was determined not to help Lenin. “With regard to publishing Lenin’s book,” he wrote K. P. Piatnitsky, “I am against it because I know the author. He is a clever fellow, a wonderful man, but he is a fighter who scoffs at gentlemanly conduct. Let Znanie edit his book and he will say: what fools, meaning Bogdanov, myself, Bazarov, Lunacharsky. 

The argument between Lenin and Plekhanov on one side and Bogdanov, Bazarov, and Co. on the other is very important and deep. The first two, differing on tactical questions, both believe in and advocate historical fatalism; the opposing side teaches philosophical activity. For me it is clear on whose side truth lies.”

Capital crimes in Marxism

 Neither parliamentary reformists nor syndicalists understood Marxism, and any revision of Marxism resembled the very modernist heresies condemned so recently by Pius X. “Until now,” wrote Plekhanov, “there were no attempts to ‘supplement’ Marx by a Thomas Aquinas. But there is nothing impossible about the fact that, despite the recent papal encyclical against the modernists, the Catholic world at one time pulled from its midst a thinker capable of this theoretical heroic act.”

Having equated revisionism with heresy, Plekhanov went on to attack Bogdanov directly in an article entitled “Militant Materialism.” In it Plekhanov excommunicated Bogdanov as a lapsed comrade, an empiriomonist who, with Labriola and Lunacharsky, had tried to smuggle syndicalism into Russia “in the guise of a weapon ‘suitable for orthodox Marxists.’ “ 

Plekhanov following his masters voice after his Pope denounced indifferentism

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/01/indifferentism.htm

Anarcho swindicalism for dummies

 My visit to the Kremlin

" . . .   in the spring of 1908, Lenin wrote an article entitled “Marxism and Revisionism” in which he made it plain that the enemy was not only philosophical idealism and “neo-Humeian, neo-Berkeleyan revisionism” but also political syndicalism.

 “Even that ‘revisionism of the left,’ which has appeared now in the Latin countries as ‘revolutionary syndicalism,’ is also attracted to Marxism, ‘correcting’ it; Labriola in Italy and Lagardelle in France label themselves in Marx’s ranks, falsely interpreting what Marx really meant.”³⁵ The key to attacking Bogdanov, however, was not to confront the syndicalist politics he shared with so many other Bolsheviks, but to criticize his philosophy . . "

Marxists keep polishing their KGB turd

 Goes well with the communist water ministry

https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39839

false confessions obtained by torture or plea bargaining is, as we know,  characteristic of capitalist regimes and would have been considered a violation of socialist legality in the Soviet Union under Stalin. In fact, Stalin replaced both Yagoda and Yezhov as respective heads of the NKVD when he learned each had abused their authority.

Swedish women derangement syndrome

 Human diuretic,  Julian Assmange is reportedly looking to sue the Swedish

Govt.  Something about uppity women making him uncomfortable again.

The Swedes may concede early on condition the plaitiff receives all his reputation is worth.

2 pfennings

As for Mange sueing me for calling him a rapist,  I never worry about that.

At least so long as truth is a defence

More evidence for Hercules than any "JESUS"

 https://permanwilson.blogspot.com/2010/11/did-historical-jesus-exist-part-1.html

"Amazingly, the question of an actual historical Jesus rarely confronts the religious believer. The power of faith has so forcefully driven the minds of most believers, and even apologetic scholars, that the question of reliable evidence gets obscured by tradition, religious subterfuge, and outrageous claims