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* The right-wing feeds on division.
* The left should grow from trust.
That sounds like #KISS because it is. But this simple truth is buried under decades of ideological shit: #Stalinism's dead weight, #Postmodernism's fog, #Neoliberalism's rot, and now the wider social, political and technological mess they have all helped leave behind.
We don't need to pretend this history didn't happen. We need to understand it,
then we need to compost it, turn the pile, let it breathe, pull apart the assumptions.Keep what is useful, let the rotten parts decay, turn all that accumulated failure into something fertile.
Because the alternative to the right-wing politics of fear, division and permanent culture war is not just another set of slogans.
It is trust, not being nice to everyone. Trust is built through doing things together, being accountable, showing your working, admitting mistakes, sharing power and staying around long enough to learn from failure.
* That is why the #commons matters.
* That is why the #openweb matters.
And that is why the demand to “use the proper channels” is so often a trap.
* Who owns those channels?
* Who wrote the rules?
* Who staffs the committees?
* Who decides what counts as legitimate?
Too often the machinery of #mainstreaming is designed to absorb dissent without allowing dissent to change anything. You submit the form, attend the consultation, become a stakeholder, write the response, wait for the committee.
You get thanked for your valuable contribution and then nothing changes. The energy is drained away, and the existing power remains exactly where it was. This is not always a conspiracy. It doesn't need to be. Systems reproduce power simply because that is what they have been designed to do.
And this is what really scares the #fashionistas and #mainstreaming crew about grassroots alternatives: We don't need them. We can walk away, build our own infrastructure, our own media. We build trust through doing things together - that is the important bit.
The answer isn't to create another closed alternative controlled by another small group of experts. That would just be more of the same, the answer is open process, the #4opens.
This is where #OMN fits, not as another shiny platform competing for attention, but as part of a longer #openweb reboot: grassroots news, archiving and eventually governance built around federation, trust, participation and shared infrastructure.
We don't need to win their game, we need to stop playing it. Their machine runs on division, attention, status and extraction. Our alternative has to run on participation, trust, memory, care and shared power.
So yes, there is a huge pile of shit in front of us. Social shit, political shit, technological shit, institutional shit, funding shit and #techshit.
We don't deny the pile, we pick up the shovel,
we turn it over, we compost it. And we use whatever fertile ground comes out of it to grow something living.That's the work, together.
#OMN #KISS #4opens #openweb #commons #deathcult #mainstreaming #fashionistas #techshit
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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.
I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.
It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.
I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.
It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....
#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism
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Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
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Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
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Daily reminder that the German Communist Party called the Nazi Party "Working People's Comrades" in their alliance against the dastardly democratic socialists 😊
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[Part 1] In 1952, Soviet Russia executed three young students on fabricated charges
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-1-in-1952-soviet-russia-executed-three-young-students-on-fabricated-charges-ff8e4440b73b
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Russia imposes the memory of Stalinism’s executioners over that of its victims.
Russian propaganda equates the aggression against Ukraine with defending the USSR from German invaders in World War II from 1941.
The profound difference between the two conflicts does not matter.
The banning of Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate organisation, is a qualitative step by the Kremlin to monopolise the interpretation of history
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The Turning Point by Otto Lacis
When farmers lease plots of land in abandoned villages today, the state of desolation they find there is amazing. Those villages are found in areas that were occupied by the enemy during the war and also in regions that the enemy did not reach. The desolation and neglect have nothing to do with the war. They were caused by the Great Turn imposed on the nation by Stalin—the turn that crushed the peasants’ initiative, diligence and desire to work.
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Average red fash be like:
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2077846/average-red-fash-be-like
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What tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2059787/what-tankies-mean-when-they-talk-about-left-unity
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Just a little more authoritarianism bro and it'll all reverse, I promise
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Un Portrait de Staline. Laurent Lévy. Review.
Laurent Lévy Un portrait de Staline. Aragon, Picasso et le parti communiste. La Fabrique. 2026.
On the 5th of March 1953 Stalin died. “He personified, not only the USSR and the Soviet people, but Communism itself.” The General Secretary of the French Communist Party, Maurice Thorez, had famously declared himself to be “the best disciple of Stalin in France”. In 1949 a whole train of gifts was sent from France to celebrate the 70th birthday of the ruler of the Kremlin.
When news of Stalin’s death reached France, leaders and members of the Parti communiste français (250,000 to over 400,000 members during this decade) – unaware of what Laurent Lévy Calls the “Shakespearian scenes” around the Leader’s passing – were seized with emotion. L’Humanité, featured a massive portrait of Stalin on March 6, 1953, with a stark, sombre headline announcing the death. On Tuesday, March 10, 1953, a huge public evening of homage was held at the Vel d’Hiv (Vélodrome d’Hiver) in Paris.
The one-time Surrealist, and poet, Lois Aragon, edited the Communist Party cultural journal Les Lettres françaises, (from 1953 to 1972). He had the genial idea of commissioning a portrait of the deceased Father of the Peoples by the world most celebrated artist, and Communist, Pablo Picasso. The design (above), drawn with fusian, (charcoal), was not the painter’s first idea. This it seems was the picture Stalin as a Greek hero on a cloud. But that, he had concluded, stumbled on how to draw the ‘zizi’ (willy), either classically discreet, or large as a Minotaur’s. (P 72 -3)
The did not receive good reception from Communist activists, or the Party leadership, An ““incroyable vague d’indignation” swept the Party. Laurent Lévy describes how the reaction of activists was soon part of n “orchestrated campaign by the leadership. Very shortly this statement was issued: “The Secretariat of the French Communist party categorically disapproves the publication in Les Lettres Francaises of March 12 of the portrait of the Great Stalin drawn by Comrade Picasso.”
The Affaire du portrait de Staline obliged Aragon to publish a raft of it critical letters and was swept up in the campaign by leading PCF member, Auguste Lecœur, to defend ‘socialist realism’. Maurice Thorez ordered by telegram from his convalescent home, Barvikha Sanatorium near Moscow., where he was recuperating from a stroke, to put a stop to this “ridiculous debate”. Lévy observes that the PCF chief leant towards a “Front populaire” attitude towards intellectuals and artists, embracing their support, not staking out a ‘class against class ‘ line based on the ‘proletarian ethos’.
The affair served as the backdrop for the great “discussion on painting” in La Nouvelle Critique at the end of 1953 and in the spring of 1954. This pitted what was known as “realism” against “formalism.”
Perhaps one of the most interesting political aspects of Un portrait de Staline is the account of Aragon’s gnawing dissatisfaction with Stalinism. His dislike of the anti-Semitism surrounding the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ grew. It was heightened by his Sister-in-law, the Jewish, and Russian resident, Lili Brik – whose family had had four members shot in 1937 – lived in “permanent fear” (P 121).
Elsa Triolet, his wife, published in 1957, Le Monument. The novel is about a sculptor, Lewka, who is commissioned by the government to create a massive, monumental statue of Stalin. Lewka is conflicted over strict, Party-mandated, artistic standards (socialist realism) while trying to maintain his own vision.
In 1966 the French Party accepted the right to absolute artistic freedom. Lévy equally notes that the book had a great impact on Jean Kanapa, one-time right-hand man of PCF leader George Marchais, opponent of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and a leading French supporter of Eurocommunism. Aragon, Un Portrait de Staline concludes, played an “essential role” in defending artistic freedom. This concise book is not just about the Affaire du Portait de Staline. It illuminates the deeper tragedy of Stalinism.
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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster
A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in One Country.” The policy argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders.
https://internationalsocialist.net/2026/03/stalin-socialism-in-one-country/
#marxism #stalinism #theory #politics #capitalism #economy #communism #socialism
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war
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EMPTY BUDGET IN RUSSIA REGIONS: PROTESTS AGAINST KREMLIN Vlog 1324: War in #Ukraine
#russia
#russiaiscollapsing
Very slowly and it will 1917 or #stalinism 2.02/18/2026
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Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!
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Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!
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Im März vor 33 Jahren ist die erste Ausgabe der #WerkstattGeschichte im Hamburger Ergebnisse Verlag erschienen:
▶ "Alltäglicher Stalinismus?", hg. von Felix Mühlberg und der Ostberliner #Geschichtswerkstatt, Heft 1/1992, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/alltaeglicher-stalinismus#histodons #Zeitschrift #Journal #Stalinismus #Stalinism #DDR #GDR #DDRGeschichte #GDRHistory #Zeitgeschichte #ContemporaryHistory #Alltagsgeschichte