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Monday, December 05, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
White Man last stand, Racism and Antisemitism
Friedrich
Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (1892–1984):
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not
speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not
speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to
speak for me
Hannah Arendt in “The Of Origin Totalitarians,” where
she analyze two situations intertwined, one Antisemitism and secondly Imperialism,
while Arendt does not accept the Antisemitism of 19th Century is a continuation
of Medieval a competition and demonize for ownership of God (Origin of
Antisemitism, Israelowitz 2016). Arendt perspective in context the Jews because
were consider outside, to maintain control, give a status base on some rights,
when this was given in western Europe, many Jews from the West have issue when was
extended to the Jews from the East.
The Liberal of the 19th century saw with
envious and disgusted, this was not extended; the question was not privilege
but equality, when Napoleon invented the Secular nation, extended civil rights to
the most outsiders the Jews. Napoleon lost, Czar and the other Monarchies
(Franz Austria and Prussia) take upon a project of restoration—meaning restore absolutism,
Autocratic monarchies.
Because the Jews had been outsiders, cannot understand
the machination, miss reading, Arendt analyzed when the Jews lost their
economic value from money lenders to Bankers (according to Her view; the Jews
economic status was based on inter—nations, and now the economic Model was
Bankers as Imperial, the differences just not only Networks, but networks based
on race superiority, which Jews were consider less than Christian which
surrounded).
The imperialism created a sense above the nation,
where in Germans speaking found common ground through the culture and language given
them a community without national borders, racism become, truly an
international movement.
Arendt exemplified this dichotomy D´isreali, while he
had no knowledge or understanding of his own Jewish identity in other hand
Dreyfus epitomize the last hurried of Antisemitism in the national level and
next stage through National Socialism and Fascism, become internationalize
hate.
From the loss of WWII, racism take hold in white
identity, in part the failure of centralize socialism in east Europe and
Russia, the idea of supplied liberal economy, leaving behind the majority
whites, because historically the working class in Europe and some ways in US
come from the Serfs, while minorities were left out from the blue collar Jobs—but
the dynamics due to international economy, where social outsider is norm
leaving the serf out.
Brexit and 2016 elections in US based on despair of
the whites being delegated, the last stand, in some ways the changes as the
Industrial revolution in 19th century created inequality and
Artesian economy displace by industrialization and mass production, the Artesian
could not compete. The rise of National Socialism in Germany in 1930´s was due
support of the low middle class and Artesian.
The economic liberalization, first the old privilege
network had become irrelevant just fact of population which 2/3 humanity are
China and India. Islam itself is 1.2 Billion of followers, the national
networks and the decline of the white population, the internet revolution by
pass old networks.
The promised the Industry will become again, is not
possible due automatization, and networks are run for the minority-majority. While
Putin Russia will like 19th century sphere of influence and russification,
and white society in US irrelevant—if US begin a trade war with a nation of 1.3
Billion who for the last decade have created a network independent US. For Europe
the aggression of Russia is not just the annexation of the Crimea or the aggression
against Ukraine. EU exist because the ethnic and national conflicts of the last
2000 Years had many times left Europe on brick, the conflict of WWI and WWII
come to painful conclusion, when the round the Jews and Holocaust happen Europe
was guilty for the 2000 of Anti-Semitism, and silence were not least guilty. If
US begin data bases for Muslim or mass deportations or using water torture in
WWII many Japanese were hang for crimes against Humanity by using such method,
we stand silence we are like perpetrators.
What to do the answer is in the White Rose (1944)—boycott
any company who participate and kept taps of crimes against humanity, rebel and
question, do not accept, justice will happen not the ways will predict.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Friday, October 07, 2016
Consensus and Direct Democracy
The concept of consensus was introduced in the ideal
of solidarity, not to competition, while they are many types of consensus, from
agreement, collaboration, cooperative meaning find the best solution, egalitarian, inclusive, participatory, and science a
consensus is to obtain an epistemology or body of knowledge.
Perhaps the oldest example of consensus
decision-making is the Iroquois Confederacy Grand Council, or Haudenosaunee,
which has used consensus in decision-making using a 75% super majority to
finalize decisions, potentially as early as 1142. Although the modern
popularity of consensus decision-making in Western society dates from the
women's liberation movement of the 1970s, and anti-nuclear movement the origins
of formal consensus can be traced significantly further back.
Historically the Quakers introduced consensus is a
form to practice their belief in Christianity, in the 17th century (Quakers
demanded the church to be an entirely voluntary, non-coercive community able to
evangelize in a pluralistic society governed by a purely civil state. Such a
demand was in sharp contrast to the ambitions of magisterial Protestantism held
by the Calvinist majority. Quakers believed that the Roman Church corrupted
itself and, through its common heritage, the Church of England as well.), from the
Legatine-Arians, who in the 16th Century were influenced by Walter,
Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate (1575 – 18 March 1612, was anti-Trinitarian
martyr--lower-class heretical culture in England with the cornerstones of this
culture were anti-clericalism and a strong emphasis on Biblical study, but
specific doctrines that had rejection of Predestination, Millenarianism,
mortalism, anti-Trinitarianism and Hermeticism ).
George Fox (July 1624 – January 1691) was a founder of
the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends, born
in the strongly Puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England
(Fenny Drayton), 24 km west-south-west
of Leicester. Imprisoned for blasphemy; a judge mocked Fox's exhortation to tremble at the word of the Lord, calling
him and his followers Quakers.
Following his refusal to fight against the return of the monarchy (or to take
up arms for any reason), his sentence was doubled. The refusal to swear oaths
or take up arms came to be a much more important part of his public statements.
Refusal to take oaths meant that Quakers could be prosecuted under laws
compelling subjects to pledge allegiance, as well as making testifying in court
problematic.
The level of agreement necessary to finalize a decision
is known as a decision rule: can account, unanimous agreement, unanimous
consent, unanimous agreement minus one vote or two votes, unanimous consent
minus one vote or two votes, super majority thresholds (90%, 80%, 75%, two-thirds,
and 60% are common), simple majority, executive committee decides, person-in-charge
decides.
In groups that require unanimous agreement or consent
(unanimity) to approve group decisions, if any participant objects, they can
block consensus. These groups use the term consensus to denote both the
discussion process and the decision rule. Other groups use a consensus process
to generate as much agreement as possible, but allow participants to finalize
decisions with a decision rule that does not require unanimity.
Consensus is a mechanism has room for dissent: Declare
reservations, Stand aside and Object: In groups with a unanimity decision rule,
a single block is sufficient to stop a proposal. Other decision rules may
require more than one objection for a proposal to be blocked or not pass.
Quaker-based model puts in place a simple, time-tested
structure that moves a group towards unity: Multiple concerns and information
are shared until the sense of the group is clear, discussion involves active
listening and sharing information, norms limit number of times one asks to
speak to ensure that each speaker is fully heard, ideas and solutions belong to
the group; no names are recorded. The facilitator articulates the sense of the
discussion, asks if there are other concerns, and proposes a minute of the
decision. The group as a whole is responsible for the decision and the decision
belongs to the group The facilitator can discern if one who is not uniting with
the decision is acting without concern for the group or in selfish interest. Key
components of Quaker-based consensus include a belief in a common humanity and
the ability to decide together. The goal is unity,
not unanimity.
The consensus-oriented decision-making model: offers a
detailed step-wise description of consensus process: Framing the topic, open
discussion, identifying underlying concerns, collaborative proposal building,
choosing a direction, synthesizing a final proposal and closure.
Critics of consensus, preservation of the status quo, susceptibility
to widespread disagreement, stagnation and group dysfunction, susceptibility to
splitting and excluding members: Groupthink. Consensus seeks to improve
solidarity in the long run. Accordingly, it should not be confused with
unanimity in the immediate situation, which is often a symptom of groupthink.
Direct Democracy used by the Athenians used majority
voting processes. Proponents of
consensus decision-making view procedures that use majority rule as undesirable
for several reasons. Majority voting is regarded as competitive, rather than
cooperative, framing decision-making in a win/lose dichotomy that ignores the
possibility of compromise or other mutually beneficial solutions. Additionally,
opponents of majority rule claim that it can lead to a tyranny of the majority, a scenario in which a majority places its
interests so far above those of an individual or minority group as to constitute
active oppression. Advocates of consensus would assert that a majority decision
reduces the commitment of each individual decision-maker to the decision.
Members of a minority position may feel less commitment to a majority decision,
and even majority voters who may have taken their positions along party or bloc
lines may have a sense of reduced responsibility for the ultimate decision. The
result of this reduced commitment, according to many consensus proponents, is
potentially less willingness to defend or act upon the decision.
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Monday, September 05, 2016
Nationalism, Ethnicity, Identity and Anarchism
The understanding of Nationalism in today terms, we
need to consider 19th century, where despotic Monarchy based on a
divine right, up to the 1700 Europe was par with the Ottoman Empire and China.
In the case of the Ottoman the second siege of Vienna in 1683 taken a tool,
brought down the Empire a characteristic not unique, but especially found in
the Islamic Empire is the absorption of the culture and wealth, and dependents of
conquest commodity materials, hinder progress, Organic Chemistry is good
example original, Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) a French study fatty and
Alkalis for the developed of soup. Later on in 1828 Friedrich Wöhler produced
the organic chemical urea (carbamide),
from the inorganic ammonium cyanate NH4CNO, but in 1856 William
Henry Perkin, while trying to manufacture quinine, accidentally manufactured
the organic dye, this created an industry, but the crucial breakthrough for
organic chemistry was the concept of chemical structure, developed independently
and simultaneously by Friedrich August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper in
1858. The pharmaceutical industry began in the last decade of the 19th century
when the manufacturing of acetylsalicylic acid—more commonly referred to as
aspirin—in Germany was started by Bayer. The cheap access to British industry
of commodity (India), stop any economic development of their industry.
The idea of nationality according to Napoleon freedom
could only be achieved by nationalism, up to the all the conflict in Europe in
the secular sense was conflicts of succession, where any treat from the
previous monarchy was not respect by the successor, and after Napoleon try to create
a liberal, based on citizenship of Nationality included equal right to
different Religious, this impact the Jews up to them since 412 the Theodosius
Code, where consider not just outsider but equivalent to an adulterer women
(the reason Christians forced the Jews to have yellow as identification,
because Yellow was color for prostitutes and adultery women, Israelowitz 2016,
Historical Origin of Antisemitism). The lost Napoleon, the Reactionary Czar Alexander
I, with Austrian and Prussia created “Holy
Alliance” based on the Christian Gospel, while the British was the fourth
Force and the Foreign Ministry Lord Castlereagh a reactionary Aristocrat, but
he consider the Alliance a Mythical nonsense, because for the British the
Liberation of the Economy and International Mercantilism was the Empire.
The failure of Napoleon and the Creation of the “Holy Alliance” (Russia, Habbsburg
Empire, and Prussia) become an ideal of a restoration to Autocratic, divine
right Monarchies. Napoleon Project of secular and based on Citizenship had an
effect in Europe, where the restoration was not possible across, since the Holy
German Empire collapse in the 1700 reduce the German in small nations, Napoleon
created the citizenship and one German Nation. German Identity added the
Languages as part of the identity, while Austria spoke for all the German. The
German fathers of Nationalism saw the entire Germans rule from Berlin, because
Vienna, the Austria Empire was multi-ethnic, multi-culture (the same reaction
Hitler felt about Vienna, The Occults Roots
of Nazism, Gooddrick-Clark, 2012)—the roots of Xenophobic Germany was taken place. The eventuality the Liberal
Europe lost, but the ideals of strong man ruler in Bolivar (himself travel to
see Napoleon Coronation), while the Spanish Monarchy Fernando VII, restore the
absolutism, and the more liberal officers plot (the idea of the use of the
military as instrument to achieved a political objective, but most of the cases
fail, because support especially the peasants—Marx disdain for the peasants was
in did, ignorance—Marx assume the peasants were monarchist, deeply conservative,
Anti-Liberal, pro-religion (In the Communist Manifest explicit call the "Idiocy
of the Rural life"), but, in Spain the liberal officers and elite-- promise land
reform, so they had support and hold a fight like in Cadiz in 1820, in the case
of Spain with a Generation the Spanish Revolution support come from small towns,
villages, peasants). The result when Spain try to impose over the colonies had
not personal, not qualify personal and without resources, the reactionary
monarchy lost the colonies. In the case of Portugal the royal Family flee to
Brazil where they had a constitutional Monarchy, the cousin of the King made
claim with British support obtain the Monarchy and force a restoration, with
liberal Military after some doing was end to exile.
Where the Holy Alliance introduce the reactionary
Louis XVIII the brother of Louis XVI, did not stop many times to overthought
Louis reintroduce not just the absolute monarchy, but restore the Catholic
Church land privilege, and the absolute to the Aristocrats, eventually his
death because his obesity, while Charles X he was more reactionary, taken side
with more reactionary class, which wanted back to Feudal times.
But for the rest of Europe in case of Belgium where rebellious
gains the Dutch Monarchy, and the rebels had support from the British, since
the British had Constitutional Monarchy, sympathize, where the same Italian
Revolts Leon XII introduced the law not Jews in the reestablished Papal estates
could not hold property.
In proper Russia, an elite officer and many
Aristocrats plot against the Czar for a liberal Russia, Decembrist, about 6000,
many send to exile in Siberia, some long term Jail, and 5 send to the death.
The consequences the reactionary Monarchy had created sphere influence, when
the Poles Diet had Autonomy under the threat of Vienna, they revolt against the
Czar, applied an early policy used in the Caucasus against Islam,
Russification, they deny the identity of them forcing all in Russian, with
Russian Education under the Russian Orthodox Church.
Because the repression of the by the “Holy Alliance”, many when underground
creating secret societies like the Carbonri,
which British encourage in Italy against Napoleon, since now the Napoleon brought
the concept of Nation, Europe had not interest to belong to an Empire, how
Liberal or secular, but the Nationalism saw themselves, only through secular
and liberal societies because Roman Catholic church was power yield by an
individual the pope.
One event, which change and inspire the Liberals was
Greek independence from the ottomans, while British worry, because will open
influence of Russia, to extend the policy of Sphere of influence, and the long
run they need to worry, but Russia defect with internal repression, inequality
and dependence on commodity. Still the Massacre by Ottomans Chios the killing
of women and Children, created support accord the spectrum, many liberal
secrets societies participated, while
the reality in the ground, where the Greeks also committed massacres against
the Turks, but the death of Lord Byron for the cause created a rally point for
the cause.
Evan´s in his 2016 “The pursuit of Power Europe
1815-1914”, describes the emancipation of the serf was done out fear, the serf
will emancipated themselves, and the Aristocrats will lost control, for the
Monarchist was a top down and for the landless peasants in case of Poland the
Czar give the titles of more than 100 Million parcels of land out fear, a land
reform which not applied to Russia proper, when Russia Revolution take place
the ambivalence, and the support of the revolution, not just come from the
working class of the 19th century, but from the new middle class,
where the liberal found their natural constitutes. A second reason for the
emancipation was the fact, because like in case Austria and Prussia, 40% of the
income when to taxes to the Empire around 17%, the rest to the Aristocrats
holder undermines the development of Agriculture. The landowners found others
ways for a compensation their loss, because they control Justice, they had way
black mail tenets. Still the integration of the peasant agriculture to
development created situation where the peasant only had his labor to sold,
reducing into a queasy-serfdom, in Prussia up to the time WWI, and the peasant
did not have the right of factory workers and the land gentry can still continue
the tradition of corporal punishment. The situation did not mean was passive
across Europe peasant revolt took place in Russia 1834-1863 illegal tree
cutting 20,000 charges each years, 950
cases of arson 1905-1907. The reaction in Europe was blame to agitators,
religious fervor and Jews, but the Czar fear of the peasant in Russia cancel
redemption payments and extension of the Peasant Land Bank. The same revolt
occurred across Romania, Moldova, which the Army was end to culled down the
revolts.
In Spain by 1830, the land owners increase the power
by using sharecropping system. In Spain the reintroduction of absolutism of the
Monarchy and the agriculture reform was sunder liberal governments, the Carlista revolts was anti-liberal and
the hate against peasants. The first Carlista
revolt 1832-1839, many of the small landowners and peasant fought Napoleon
as Guerrilla warfare under British support had the expertise and succession
fight between Fernando VII and his younger brother Carlos began the peasant revolts. The revolt was the landowners to grant any
reform, the conflict continues in 1847 and the third Carlista 1872-1876.
The south of Spain were the liberal administration
were not able to introduce Agrarian reform since the Aristocrats with the land
owners power stop any reform, the peasant turn to Anarchy in 1848.Revolt in
Italy in 1863, which the entire Italian Army was send to stop revolts, the
Napoleon reform never introduced. In Europe the lack of the reform took new
faces of banditry and discontent.
On the other hand, the working class in 1800´s began,
while Artesian (the Guilds were consider Privilege, and reservoir of the land
less peasant as the working class in the industrial revolution) was used were being
displace, many of the work in the Textile in North France South Belgium, where
being treat was harsh and especially the Deutsch owners, many were monarchist,
the saw the workers not least humans, with harsh measures like deductive pay
from being late, using toileted often, to oil the machines to much including
low quality—temperatures in this fabrics in the 30 Celsius (not access to
water), with 14 hours days brought strike and open conflict again the owners,
most of the textile workers were women and children. The factories were very
dangerous placed and affecting health from bronchitis to deafens, the employers
blamer the works from their own health, since they consider the place is
dangerous place—according to them they work own risk.
The industrial revolution coined by the French
economist Jerome-Adolphe Blanqui (1798-1854) mean besides of mass production,
was the used of machines for this uniform and mass production and extended to
every possible industry (still dangerous with the new machines in some ways
increased for need of tempo). While promises never kept by mine operators for
such dangerous work, the workers created their system of support, the creation
working associations for their own protection.
Nationalism based an idea of Citizenship, and
ethnicity base on languages distinct, reinforce by religious believe such was
the case in 19th Century Austria Czech or Finland relationship with
Russia manifested in Finish Karvala or Music Sevilus in some places like
Germany take darker meaning the introduction of race or in 21 Century British
exit of European Unit base on demagogue right tory racist against Eastern
Europeans, transforming into identity (in 2008 the race riots in Belfast against
Polish was preview), while the resentment manifested against the other, the
roots, are Margaret—Neo Liberal economy, which the New Feudal overlords are the
wealth and the new peasant the res the 99%. The air since collapse of the Soviet, centralize
state, and with the economic meltdown of 2008 of the Neo-liberal not
regulations, where individuals without impunity raided the coffers of the
state, leaving the population in poverty, in the 1848 the spirit of revolt against
the restoration is the same today where the dogmatic neo-liberalism forcing a
few owning the wealth, leaving the rest of population in Dickerson Novel
without hope.
The delusional contradiction of the Marxist like in
the revolts 1848, freedom could not be obtain just by guaranty of citizenship,
since the fundamental question is who is the citizen and exclusions begin, you cannot
obtained freedom by dictatorship of the state (or an elite which is to enforce
an homogeneous behavior).
While, the support not only come from reactionary
Roman Catholic Church, expressed by British-Scottish Catholics, Beevor, the Battle For Spain, The Spanish
Civil War 1936-1939 (2206), the direct involvement by the Mussolini--Fascist and
the German National Socialist. The idea of region exercising power defined the privilege
through citizenship or ballot. The underline of Anarchy is the relationship of
power and his application, while individual can identify and express, where for
Marxist the idea of power of the state many liberation movements like the Italian
Unification, Poland as Nation, taken victimization to a level justification of
power, of course, injustices exist due to this power relationships, the
question become how resolved. The Kurd's, who provide Suleiman, and Prussia
King, who for his own purpose use Islam as Political stamen, in 1905 with his
visit to his Suleiman grave, to obtain the alliances of the Ottomans, therefore Muslims and the policy of the used of Political Islam continue under National
Socialist to the point creation SS units under Mufti of Jerusalem, participated
not only in Genocide of Serbian and Jews. But Churchill, after the Ottoman took
side with the Prussia Kaiser in WWI conflict, deny any territorial recognition,
forcing the Kurd's into new nations created by the British, where 20 Million
under the Turks. The conflict of Syria and by then Öcolan in Prison, inspire by
Brookchin Libertarian Municipalities, and the Islamic State is conclusion by
Republican US administration invasion Iraq, the Islamic State an ideal creation
to a Theocratic State—many of their support come from alienation of a youth not
able to adapt to secular consume society, they themselves having idealized
Islam, where Ottoman come to the doors to Vienna twice, conquest and hold Spain
closed 900 years, since 1700´s and especially 19th century behind of
an industrial, scientific and technological revolution. The Öcalan see a
Libertarian as Autonomous region inside the state: Rojava, where multi ethnic-equal
society builds under Libertarian Municipality ideals.
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