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  1. Spain's revolution succeeds (c18/c19)

    I'm predominantly a c20 historian of labour history, and as a result incidentally of world-systems / imperialism. But Imperialism as a world-system chains back before the 20th century, and Sharpe's Rifles' episode one inspired this thought, as the two brother fight over Spain. Spain did have a...

  2. Let's play: Master and Servants, the salvation of the USSR in the Kyivian Божевільний замок sound

    Wotcher, As we all know, the 1970s and 1980s comprised a revolution in the culture of the Soviet Union. The unstoppable sound of the need for industry began in Kyiv, a home of Soviet Revolution, and was amplified by the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment's smuggling of MDMA into the Soviet...

  3. Stakhanovishchina fails

    Wotcher comrades, As we all know, after the Ural-Siberian crisis and the scissors crisis, the failure of the NEP in the Soviet Union was a forgone conclusion. However, historically, as the Soviet Union developed Fordism with Soviet Characteristics a new method of labour relations was developed...

  4. Vale: Stafford Beer, cybernetics war-criminal.

    Wotcher, *Anthony Stafford Beer was a British theorist, American consultant, US government figure, and war-criminal[disputed, see talk]. Hired by Henry Ford II, Beer pioneered a Whiz Kid series of reforms in Ford motor vehicle manufacture leading to what Nicholas Land[1] (U Chic. Cybernetics...

  5. Who'll play the indians? We'll let the gooks play the indians. John Company plays Vietnam.

    Wotcher comrades, As we know historically the UKGBNI state was forced by revolution at abroad and home to force the Windsor's enforcer into giving the subcontinent and its surrounds freedom to engage in imperialist genocide. What if they didn't? What if like the Soviet Union or the United...

  6. 1944: Soviet Halt

    What if the Soviet Union strategically halts their advances in order to politically discipline the Western Allies? We normally have discussions about Western Allied attempts to politically discipline the Soviet Union. Why don't we discuss the inverse. Obviously the timing would need to be of...

  7. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983). Malick dir.

    Terrence Malick is an ideosyncratic director known for his brutal post-westerns and his very strange post-western, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Most people know Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence for its sensitively handled Australian private school pedophile themes, or for its influential...

  8. 4 corners special report: What price for Sydney’s trams?
    Threadmarks: S01E01 Credits and Roll 00:00-

    <menacing synthesiser music> <a cube of fours made up of fours rotates supplanted by historic video, film and even black and white film footage vaguely referencing the voice over> The Amphetamine and Heroin epidemics The problems in the Towers Biker and Yugoslav bombings Burning children on a...

  9. A workerist Soviet leader from 1985 at the head of a workerist tendency—fails

    Wotcher, often we’ve discussed how 1968 marks the death of the Russian revolution as the inevitability of a Brezhnevite tankie decline into the worlds greatest ever disorganised go slow and drink in the job industrial action dooms the Soviet Union to out of date capital plant, out of date...

  10. The Judge, or the Evening Redness in the West (2014)

    The Judge, or the Evening Redness in the West is a 2014 American post-western (disputed: post-samurai) erotic-grotesque / war film directed by Terrence Malick. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall with Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Dax Shepard and Billy Bob...

  11. Debray goes to Vietnam, or FOQUISMO focuses on Vietnamese praxis

    Wotcher. Urban foqo bullshit is a meme beloved by historians: from the useless assassination of US generals in Germany, to the Kidnapping of Prime Ministers in Italy, foquismo proved itself to be dilletante intelligentsia 19th century German Idealist bullshit. And Regis Debray is worth blaming...

  12. Hogan's Hero's deals with der osten.

    Hogans heros. A luft stalag. Great series. Germany laughs at itself. You know me Hogan, I know… Who is missing. You know me Hogan, I know nothing. Nothing. * * * Unlike the Academic leftists the leftists around Bob Crane were American (german, Pole, jew, Italian, Irish) through and...

  13. "You want Berlin: pay the price." Allies pay the prices.

    Wotcher. I don't wanna talk About things we've gone through Though it's hurting me Now it's history Recently people have been fantasizing about fucking the Soviet Union in the late war due to central european political desires, or anti-soviet fantasies, or Wallies fanboiism. I like fiction as...

  14. SACP play hard and nasty

    Wotcher comrades, The SACP appears, despite its penetration of anti-apartheid politics, to have played nice for a longtime. Mandela was disciplined by the SACP to be disciplined by the ANC. The SACP/ANC/TU accord held longer than the ALP/ACTU::::::::::(CPA) accord. As Mandela (SACP CC...

  15. RAF bomb Germany into surrender

    Wotcher, The RAF had a hysterically failed conception of how warfare would occur in a strategic sense, and thus over-committed to bombing campaigns. These campaigns depleted RAF and allied forces dramatically without achieving any real political effect on the German state. But what if the RAF...

  16. Have you heard about the Bird? 1 Air-Dragoons Division's defence of Mombassa [no politics regarding 1972 please]

    Have you heard about the Bird? Air mobility became an issue in the United States with the development of the concept of parachute air assault in the 1940s. This work continued despite air-landing and air-assault during WWII into the post-war era. Air landing and air assault units were...

  17. What if the Long March decimated the CCP’s operational units?

    Gidday the Long March was a historical “retreat” by Chinese Communist Party operational light infantry forces under GMD strategic/political pressure. It resulted in force preservation and “retreat” into Yennan as a “safe” area where CCP forces had to cooperate with actual Chinese communists...

  18. Notes on the FAILS CA-33 Currawong Naval striker, Interdictor, Penetrator, Long range air control weapons system
    Threadmarks: Notes on the Currawong

    Notes on the FAILS CA-33 Currawong Naval striker, Interdictor, Penetrator, Long range air control weapons system Wotcher, Most people know the Federation of Australo-Indo Labor States’ CA-33 Currawong these days from the fuel tank asbestos scandals; or, the pathetic militarist naval aviation...

  19. [New archival source:] leading post-war Soviet figure Fleshman GG's papers recovered from Sydney S— Foundation offices

    Greetings comrades and fellow workers, Гарри Генриевич Флейшман [Gari Genrievitch Fleshman] (1900-1993) Major General, OP, OL, OOR, OKZ, OPVZ, OAN, OSPS, etc.etc. MZOTZ(!), OMS(!)*1, is a well known Soviet figure, party member, theorist, Hero of the Soviet Union, sometime military commissar...

  20. Wogs of South Africa, a horror story.

    Gidday Mates[1], Australia was [and was until the 20 year rule, which currently looks like the Sydney Olympics rule: we sent all the homeless to camps and still kept fucking stealing children] a racist hell hole. Australia, however, has managed to get away with it in public. South Africa...
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