On this day, 27 December 1923, Japanese communist, Daisuke Nanba, attempted to assassinate the crown prince to avenge the deaths of three anarchists – Kōtoku Shūsui, Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe – at the hands of the state.
Daisuke attempted to shoot crown prince Hirohito with a pistol through the window of his carriage at the Toranomon intersection in Tokyo. The bullet smashed a window on the carriage, but missed Hirohito.
Daisuke was subsequently arrested, sentenced to death and executed two days after being sentenced.
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Daisuke attempted to shoot crown prince Hirohito with a pistol through the window of his carriage at the Toranomon intersection in Tokyo. The bullet smashed a window on the carriage, but missed Hirohito.
Daisuke was subsequently arrested, sentenced to death and executed two days after being sentenced.
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On this day, 27 December 1831, the Christmas rebellion in Jamaica escalated as 60,000 of the country's 300,000 enslaved people went on strike and rose up against slavery.
It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more free time. The plantation owners rejected the demands, and so on December 27, enslaved people on the Kensington estate downed tools and set their sugarcane fields on fire. The rebels organised their own military units, and travelled through other estates, burning buildings and crops and recruiting others to join them.
Lasting 11 days, it was the biggest revolt of enslaved people in the British Caribbean colonies, and cost over £50 million damages in current money. While only 14 whites were killed, over 500 Black people were killed or executed in the aftermath. But as a result slavery across the British Caribbean was largely abolished two years later.
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It is known as the Christmas rebellion as it began with a strike on Christmas day, demanding wages and more free time. The plantation owners rejected the demands, and so on December 27, enslaved people on the Kensington estate downed tools and set their sugarcane fields on fire. The rebels organised their own military units, and travelled through other estates, burning buildings and crops and recruiting others to join them.
Lasting 11 days, it was the biggest revolt of enslaved people in the British Caribbean colonies, and cost over £50 million damages in current money. While only 14 whites were killed, over 500 Black people were killed or executed in the aftermath. But as a result slavery across the British Caribbean was largely abolished two years later.
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🔴 Western Marxism, Anti-Communism and Imperialism
✍🏻 Immanuel Ness
Following the Russian Revolution, some Western Marxists began to replace support for revolution and fledgling socialist, instead promoting liberal-democracy and social reform in Europe and North America, restoring a position taken by the Second International before the Second World War. In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Georg Lukács, a supporter of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union, published History and Class Consciousness (HCC) in German in1923, which paradoxically supplied the oxygen for Western Marxism over the next century by channeling class into a relationship between subject and object, appropriating the abstract Hegelian notion of class consciousness over a grounded historical materialism advanced by Karl Marx in Capital (1867) and Friedrich Engels in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1907). For Marx and Engels, class consciousness is a direct extension of the material being of the worker, but in HCC Lukács pursues the notion of working-class subjectivity as expressed in the communist party, a view which modifies class struggle from material dialectics into a philosophical abstraction. Lukács’s HCC distinguishes the individual as the historical subject in place of privileging the working class and nature, instead asserting that individual subjectivity is the primary force which is driven by ideas and not the material world. In spite of Lukács’s intention to philosophically situate the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union as the objective organ reflecting the working class, HCC becomes the driving force of Western Marxism in Europe and North America, re-centering the proletariat as a metaphysical and abstract subject and object of an undefined history...
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https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2024/12/24/western-marxism-anti-communism-and-imperialism/
✍🏻 Immanuel Ness
Following the Russian Revolution, some Western Marxists began to replace support for revolution and fledgling socialist, instead promoting liberal-democracy and social reform in Europe and North America, restoring a position taken by the Second International before the Second World War. In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Georg Lukács, a supporter of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union, published History and Class Consciousness (HCC) in German in1923, which paradoxically supplied the oxygen for Western Marxism over the next century by channeling class into a relationship between subject and object, appropriating the abstract Hegelian notion of class consciousness over a grounded historical materialism advanced by Karl Marx in Capital (1867) and Friedrich Engels in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1907). For Marx and Engels, class consciousness is a direct extension of the material being of the worker, but in HCC Lukács pursues the notion of working-class subjectivity as expressed in the communist party, a view which modifies class struggle from material dialectics into a philosophical abstraction. Lukács’s HCC distinguishes the individual as the historical subject in place of privileging the working class and nature, instead asserting that individual subjectivity is the primary force which is driven by ideas and not the material world. In spite of Lukács’s intention to philosophically situate the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet Union as the objective organ reflecting the working class, HCC becomes the driving force of Western Marxism in Europe and North America, re-centering the proletariat as a metaphysical and abstract subject and object of an undefined history...
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https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2024/12/24/western-marxism-anti-communism-and-imperialism/
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This article was originally published in International Critical Thought journal, and you can access it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2024.2431960 We are reproducing the article with the permission of the author. ABSTRACT Many…
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Trotsky, the first to accuse Stalin, roamed freely in Mussolini’s Italy, a regime notorious for its ruthless persecution of genuine communists who were hunted like dogs. While Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, languished in prison, gravely ill, Trotsky and his wife leisurely toured sites like Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, and Naples under the protection of Fascist police.
This stark irony exposes Trotsky as a figure whose actions aligned more with fascist interests than the revolutionary cause—rightly earning him the label of "a prostitute of Fascism."
This stark irony exposes Trotsky as a figure whose actions aligned more with fascist interests than the revolutionary cause—rightly earning him the label of "a prostitute of Fascism."
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🔴 Nikola Tesla on the USSR: “The Russians are lucky — they have socialism and Stalin”
✍🏻 Nikos Mottas
“I am following the situation in Russia carefully. I try to get testimonies from eyewitnesses, not from newspapers that lie non-stop. I approve of the Russian revolution because it proclaimed the principle of honesty on one-sixth of the earth's surface. The Soviet Union faces incredible trials, but the country is ready to overcome them. The Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin. A happy people with a wise leader. I envy the Russians and feel sorry for my compatriots who are ruled by three random people...”
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✍🏻 Nikos Mottas
“I am following the situation in Russia carefully. I try to get testimonies from eyewitnesses, not from newspapers that lie non-stop. I approve of the Russian revolution because it proclaimed the principle of honesty on one-sixth of the earth's surface. The Soviet Union faces incredible trials, but the country is ready to overcome them. The Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin. A happy people with a wise leader. I envy the Russians and feel sorry for my compatriots who are ruled by three random people...”
Nikola Tesla
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