greeks set up colonies along the entirety of the mediterranean sea from the west shore to the east and from the north to the south. They were settler-colonising in this way from around the 400s or 500s BC until they got owned by the romans

i was excited (for more primary sources until i read

But he was expelled from the party the following year [1959] over his criticism of the Great Leap Forward, an industrialization program championed by Mao that led an estimated 30 million to 40 million people to die of starvation in three years. During his 20 years in exile, Li was imprisoned in a labor camp and spent eight years in solitary confinement.

He’s not even there for the most interesting (and most in need of good contemporary primary sources!!! Everyone and their mother has written about the civil war!!!) period who cares about this guy

Im glad you liked it

Precisely how much worse must be the conditions of the average liberal before they convert, then? There is no bottom to the conditions of the working class, and there is no ceiling to exploitation. Things are ok in many places but they’re becoming bad in a lot of the Western world, even in America, for average middle-class families.

An insightful question. A comparison of the conditions of the western working class (as we’ve observed in our lives and studies) to those of the English proletariat in Engels’ and Marx’s time would be illustrative as to “how much worse must be the conditions” before the liberals stop liberalling so successfully among the workers.

Mostly from Engels, Conditions of the Working Class in England. I’ll type up some highlights in addition to the full images.

Living conditions: Literally bailing the river water out of your dwelling every morning

20 people to a 2room+attic+basement residence. 120 people to a sometimes nonfunctional privy. Ireland was even more crowded.

food in stores: Old, rancid, rotting meat. Rotting vegetables. Mouldy cheese.

Soap-refuse mixed in with sugar. Dirt and sheep fat mixed with cocoa.

From Capital; cobwebs, cockroaches, sand and alum in bread.

Vagrants, tramps, homeless, beggars and the like Poor rounded up and thrown into workhouses with conditions similar to or worse than prisons. Families broken up. Hard labour (harder than regular wage labour) but useless (so as not to distort the market). No visitors, gifts, leaving, etc without permission from the inspector.

Some choice examples of conditions in the workhouses include children being locked in dark rooms with corpses as a punishment for bedwetting

Such punishments were common, and the rooms crowded, cold, filthy, and the punished youths often stripped naked

As for treatment of the old and the dead?

As for working conditions, I’ll just post one screenshot from working class bc this is getting long

jumping on the “also autistic, this describes my experience” bandwagon

doesn’t invalidate his previous work, but damn that sucks

picard isn’t nearly cool enough to do that (he is a loser bureaucratified careerist elitist shitstain). He would be too afraid of the damage to his career

Kirk otoh would personally punch every head of state in the face before arming the dispossessed with laser pistols (as he does in

the more i read about history the more convinced i become that ‘fascism’ (merger of economic and political power for bourgeois ends) is the default state of capitalism

Too real

He tried, but if he spoke plainly he got beaten up and if he spoke in parables no one understood

holy shit paul is the nereveraine

5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

Story says he knew how to write (historically, more dubious)

34 “Do not suppose that I [Jesus] have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34)

36 [Jesus] said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. (Luke 22:36)

In the story he tried, didn’t work unfortunately

They weren’t meant to be stayed in much besides sleeping / waiting out rain afaik. If it were warm enough, highlanders generally preferred staying outdoors (sometimes even sleeping outdoors). Sheiling dwellings could apparently be downright cozy though, given a fire, some blankets and stories.

Where herders lived in the non-winter months generally

ah true ty for the correction

‘We will have peace,’ said Théoden at last thickly and with an effort. Several of the Riders cried out gladly. Théoden held up his hand. ‘Yes, we will have peace,’ he said, now in a clear voice, ‘we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished – and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men’s hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just – as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired – even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Háma’s body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc. So much for the House of Eorl. A lesser son of great sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers. Turn elsewhither. But I fear your voice has lost its charm.’

It’s such a good speech outright condemning imperialism and the movie BUTCHERS IT

imo the only members of Saruman’s army were “in the right” are the Dunlandfolk and Woses who have been tricked into thinking that Saruman will kill the Rohirrim who they (rightfully) hate for taking their land. But both live subsistence lifestyles so i don’t think it’ll go well for either them if Saruman the clearcutting riverpolluting enthusiast won either

Based, Uruk’s very cringe (basically Sauron’s sergeants and middle manager-soldiers who oversee the less willing conscripts and slaves) and Uruk-Hai are made even more evil by Saruman by feeding them human flesh.

Also very cool and not much more fantastical than stuff that Legolas actually does do in the books (e.g. Legolas doesn’t sleep, is light enough to walk atop grass or snow). Of the issues with the movie (e.g. cutting out the best parts of Theodan’s speech to Saruman even in the extended cut) this is a relatively minor one imho

retvrn to tradition