BTW, flor solitaria. FYI, there are more Marxists among young Americans than ever before. The major universities are offering courses on theory and practice of “revolutionary Marxism.”
So, indeed. The U.S. is the next country to be affected by the socialist fewer.
Happy May First Day!
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“…[]…From 1924, however, and the rise of Stalin to the leadership of the party, theories such as ‘socialism in one country’ were fundamental breaks from the Marxist heritage of the party. A new ‘class’ of bureaucrats developed that acted like a capitalist class and exploited the working class once more. In 1928 the first ‘Five Year Plan’ indicated that the new emphasis was on capital accumulation. The so-called ‘Old Bolsheviks’ were discredited, arrested and/or executed. Workers’ rights were withdrawn and workers resumed their subordinate role. The state was strengthened as the leaders sought economic and military power. In short, there had been an internal counter-revolution that had given up the ideas of Marx and returned to capitalism, albeit in a new form.
“
Your source is of “Trotskyite” pedigree. The battle for power between Stalin and Trotsky was in fact the battle between Stalin and the communist Jews for the control of the Soviet communist party and the USSR – which Stalin won spectacularly, outsmarting Trotsky & the gang!
The Trotskyites (Jews) are ever since infinitely bitter for that loss of control, and are still trying to present that battle as one of “ideologies” (their “Fourth International” vs. Stalin’s socialism in one country) … as if someone still cares…
And it is interesting how skillfully they change their colors, as chameleons, according to need. For instance … all the US “neocons” are Trotskyite Jews who now swear allegiance to the capitalist Mammon… Etc.
May Day was born as a day of struggle of the working people for their rights. It rallied the most courageous, decent and honest people all over the world. This is the day of those to whom are dear the ideals of social justice and the friendship and brotherhood of the peoples, the free labor and free creativity. It is really worth fighting for, fight aggressively and decisively!
Heartfelt congratulations to you all! Let the blossoming May and the warm spring sun awaken in our souls all the brightest! I trust, together we shall highly raise the scarlet banner of Victory and shall succeed. And then the true human happiness will for long time settle in our common home – Russia.
Do you have 1 May celebration animosity in some circles in Russia? Any specifically anti-communist feelings around it?
In communist Yugoslavia it was a kind of communist “Easter”, and the New Years Eve celebration was a communist “Christmas”, both were new holidays for Serb culture (and celebrations of actual Christmas and Easter was persecuted of course) and it was publicly insisted on both with lots of cheer, music, events and feasts with lots and lots of drinking and meat (1 May so came to be synonyms for a barbecue event). New Years Eve celebration are at the time of orthodox (Christmas) fast, with may it depends, but today is for example Friday (traditionally a day for fasting). Anyhow, many anti-communist Serbs, even if not orthodox in strict sense of practicing what they believe in, look at today’s celebration (which amongst most Serbs still tend to leave up to old SFRJ hype) as sad…
Maybe somebody mentioned it, but up through about 1947 (when I was going on 10) we celebrated May Day in the US. We little boys made conical May baskets out of construction paper and library paste, often in school, filled them with spring flowers and candy, hung them on the doorknobs of some little girl we liked, rang the bell and ran behind some bushes to see if she got it. Like a belated Valentine’s Day. After that the Cold War began, it became known as a Communist holiday, and was abandoned. When my own kids were little, back in the 70’s when peace seemed to be breaking out after Vietnam, we and some other nostalgic parents around got our own kids to do it, which they enjoyed. Not done any more. — Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
It’s the official start of summer – has been celebrated since ‘pagan’ times.
Easter is the celebration of the Spring Season, with the egg (which represented both fertility and wisdom) surviving in many forms – from chocolate to painted – as a symbol of renewal/rebirth. That this is also the Feast of the Resurrection is no accident: the early Church fathers didn’t pick these dates out of a hat..:)
Guess the Soviets, like the Romans, are no slouches either when it comes to updating/appropriating ancient festival dates for commemorative purposes.
‘Spit and sing, my Yugoslavia… if you don’t listen to the song you’ll hear a storm… Yugoslavia stand on your feet, if you don’t listen to the song you’ll hear a storm…’ (1987)
I did spit, coursed and stood to no avail… living 24 yrs in NZ/UK now… at 4’10” Bregovic announces that the concert is on national TV and asks the crowd to sing the above… everyone sings…
Many of the other gypsy songs I remember from the days of the great Svetlana Toma, (Табор уходит в небо- The Gypsies Fly to the Skies…). Obligatory viewing, please:
from “underground “film I think the words are super too….Moonlight (Translation)
mesecina
There is no more sun,
There is no more moon,
There is no more you,
There is no more me.
There is nothing more… oh.
Darkness of war has covered us,
Darkness has covered us… oh.
And I wonder, my dear: What will happen with us?
Is it moonlight at noon? oh-oh,
Is it sunshine at midnight?… oh-oh,
From the skies above, light is beaming…
Nobody knows, Nobody knows,
Nobody knows, Nobody knows,
Nobody knows what is really shining.
but all we know is that the light comes from above
My wife is currently out celebrating Beltane with her friends, whilst I look after the kids.I do worry at the military glorification that I see on these pages.
Where is there room for men to be peaceful? I love Jesus. i hate men hating men. I live in the West and hope that I love Russian men (as living beings).
The word ‘love’ has become oversexualised. Of course I love love my wife, but that doesn’t stop me loving other living beings.
[…]
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia: Here I am only worried about one thing. Today I am extremely worried about the material segregation of society. As opposed to other developed countries we have a large number of the poor. And the resources which are accumulated in certain hands belong to a limited number of people.
And this difference between low-income layers and those people who can boast about their millions and billions is unacceptable. The solution is of course is in the development of this middle class, which we talked about 11 years ago.
At the same time we must be very careful, and not rush ahead. I know that what I am saying right now might cause a disapproval from my liberal colleagues. They are a type of “revolutionaries” and “Bolsheviks”, only from the opposite side.
I think we have made many mistakes, and we must learn the lessons. I will tell you why. What was done in the beginning of he 1990’s in principle was right, they created the base, but some decisions were so harsh and so painfully reflected on ordinary citizens, that the leadership of the country for the most part had lost the trust of ordinary citizens, and was forced for many years to just stumble in one place. Nothing could be approved in the parliament. Overall it was very costly for reform policies, because the resource of trust into authorities has been spent in the first years.
And this was a mistake We must act decisively along the line of market reforms, but very carefully, with minimal, and better – without any loss for ordinary citizens.
Is this possible?
This is the art of domestic politics which we had talked about. This is why I told you it’s most interesting – to find a golden middle, the balance, between moving ahead, but not forgetting about the home base. Not to forget that all these reforms are done not for some aliens, but for our ordinary citizens. And they must feel that something is changing for the better, otherwise it’s all senseless.
[…]
Too much sad stuff here saker. The past is only for remembering so as not to repeat past mistakes or for preventing past tragedies occuring in the the future.
Russia needs a Russian version of Bruce Springstein’s born in the USA.
Oh dear, so many thanks for the spiritsurging heartfilling singing of Pelagja. And the reminder of (our) father’s traumata. Now repeated perfidiously in the Donbass. Hey ! >”Pacifist” any form of combat has to be employed for tactical reasons . Therein a. therewith cruelty a. the negation of the Geneva Convention – systematically employed by the organs of the fascist neoandoldnazi Galizian Khazarian Kiew Natostooges , has the function to attempt to demoralize, dastabilize… Ignorant are they, that actually this has the opposite effect in Russia , see sanctions/boycott/economical war
Happy Soviet Workers Day.
Same to you and yours!
No to imperialist war! Join the 2015 International May Day Online Rally!
World Socialist Web Site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRgrXIQt8cc
BTW, flor solitaria. FYI, there are more Marxists among young Americans than ever before. The major universities are offering courses on theory and practice of “revolutionary Marxism.”
So, indeed. The U.S. is the next country to be affected by the socialist fewer.
Happy May First Day!
.
FYI the Bolsheviks were not Marxist, they were Capitalist http://makealeftturn.blogspot.co.uk/p/how-marxist-were-bolsheviks.html
“…[]…From 1924, however, and the rise of Stalin to the leadership of the party, theories such as ‘socialism in one country’ were fundamental breaks from the Marxist heritage of the party. A new ‘class’ of bureaucrats developed that acted like a capitalist class and exploited the working class once more. In 1928 the first ‘Five Year Plan’ indicated that the new emphasis was on capital accumulation. The so-called ‘Old Bolsheviks’ were discredited, arrested and/or executed. Workers’ rights were withdrawn and workers resumed their subordinate role. The state was strengthened as the leaders sought economic and military power. In short, there had been an internal counter-revolution that had given up the ideas of Marx and returned to capitalism, albeit in a new form.
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@ Anonymous (on May 01, 2015 · at 7:48 pm UTC)
Your source is of “Trotskyite” pedigree. The battle for power between Stalin and Trotsky was in fact the battle between Stalin and the communist Jews for the control of the Soviet communist party and the USSR – which Stalin won spectacularly, outsmarting Trotsky & the gang!
The Trotskyites (Jews) are ever since infinitely bitter for that loss of control, and are still trying to present that battle as one of “ideologies” (their “Fourth International” vs. Stalin’s socialism in one country) … as if someone still cares…
And it is interesting how skillfully they change their colors, as chameleons, according to need. For instance … all the US “neocons” are Trotskyite Jews who now swear allegiance to the capitalist Mammon… Etc.
With a little correction, those people were no Jews but fakes, british and jesuit agents selling british masonic zionism.
Wow…
There are courses and classes at http://www.rdwolff.com/classes
Other lectures and material about economics elsewhere on the site.
There is also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9jSTM28Zw
Richard Wolff, “Taboo Broken: New Critical Writing About Capitalism”
merrimackcollege
@ Scott
If people want by their own will to live in a communist/marxist/trotzkyst/socialist country, what can I say but ‘may their wish come true’.
Happy International Labor Day.Here is a short video of part of the celebrations in Lugansk today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVhNnuRVyP8
This is Slavic soul music(the soul of a people)
The May Day greeting of Gennady Zyuganov:
May Day was born as a day of struggle of the working people for their rights. It rallied the most courageous, decent and honest people all over the world. This is the day of those to whom are dear the ideals of social justice and the friendship and brotherhood of the peoples, the free labor and free creativity. It is really worth fighting for, fight aggressively and decisively!
Heartfelt congratulations to you all! Let the blossoming May and the warm spring sun awaken in our souls all the brightest! I trust, together we shall highly raise the scarlet banner of Victory and shall succeed. And then the true human happiness will for long time settle in our common home – Russia.
http://kprf.ru/party-live/cknews/142174.html
Do you have 1 May celebration animosity in some circles in Russia? Any specifically anti-communist feelings around it?
In communist Yugoslavia it was a kind of communist “Easter”, and the New Years Eve celebration was a communist “Christmas”, both were new holidays for Serb culture (and celebrations of actual Christmas and Easter was persecuted of course) and it was publicly insisted on both with lots of cheer, music, events and feasts with lots and lots of drinking and meat (1 May so came to be synonyms for a barbecue event). New Years Eve celebration are at the time of orthodox (Christmas) fast, with may it depends, but today is for example Friday (traditionally a day for fasting). Anyhow, many anti-communist Serbs, even if not orthodox in strict sense of practicing what they believe in, look at today’s celebration (which amongst most Serbs still tend to leave up to old SFRJ hype) as sad…
May Day is a very ancient day of celebration in many European countries, especially the northern ones.
Some of you may remember having danced around the Maypole as a child. :)
Maybe somebody mentioned it, but up through about 1947 (when I was going on 10) we celebrated May Day in the US. We little boys made conical May baskets out of construction paper and library paste, often in school, filled them with spring flowers and candy, hung them on the doorknobs of some little girl we liked, rang the bell and ran behind some bushes to see if she got it. Like a belated Valentine’s Day. After that the Cold War began, it became known as a Communist holiday, and was abandoned. When my own kids were little, back in the 70’s when peace seemed to be breaking out after Vietnam, we and some other nostalgic parents around got our own kids to do it, which they enjoyed. Not done any more. — Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
Absolutely V!
It’s the official start of summer – has been celebrated since ‘pagan’ times.
Easter is the celebration of the Spring Season, with the egg (which represented both fertility and wisdom) surviving in many forms – from chocolate to painted – as a symbol of renewal/rebirth. That this is also the Feast of the Resurrection is no accident: the early Church fathers didn’t pick these dates out of a hat..:)
Guess the Soviets, like the Romans, are no slouches either when it comes to updating/appropriating ancient festival dates for commemorative purposes.
So happy Labour May Day all!
The Soviets no longer exist…
Dear Moderator, please amend my previous two posts and replace with the one below.
Too much sljivovitsa, I guess…
Thanks
Following the Pelageya links…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucqt1rHWoKQ
At least one of the Gyspy songs is by Goran Bregović Bijelo Dugme along the line of (for aficionados only and NOT the faint-hearted):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3SKkNt828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Umoz9vvZ4
While we are at it…
‘Spit and sing, my Yugoslavia… if you don’t listen to the song you’ll hear a storm… Yugoslavia stand on your feet, if you don’t listen to the song you’ll hear a storm…’ (1987)
I did spit, coursed and stood to no avail… living 24 yrs in NZ/UK now… at 4’10” Bregovic announces that the concert is on national TV and asks the crowd to sing the above… everyone sings…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phocBUY4g78
Many of the other gypsy songs I remember from the days of the great Svetlana Toma, (Табор уходит в небо- The Gypsies Fly to the Skies…). Obligatory viewing, please:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyDmvV5k9A
I respectfully bow to the superior talent.
for more Balkan gypsy style eg Gorans music check out Kusturica’s fims, black cat white cat which is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkqFXZxAI28
from “underground “film I think the words are super too….Moonlight (Translation)
mesecina
There is no more sun,
There is no more moon,
There is no more you,
There is no more me.
There is nothing more… oh.
Darkness of war has covered us,
Darkness has covered us… oh.
And I wonder, my dear: What will happen with us?
Is it moonlight at noon? oh-oh,
Is it sunshine at midnight?… oh-oh,
From the skies above, light is beaming…
Nobody knows, Nobody knows,
Nobody knows, Nobody knows,
Nobody knows what is really shining.
but all we know is that the light comes from above
,etc time of the gypsies, and underground the very dark but humourous/sadonic film re events Yugoslavia etc…….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IltS4FWrwxM
My wife is currently out celebrating Beltane with her friends, whilst I look after the kids.I do worry at the military glorification that I see on these pages.
Where is there room for men to be peaceful? I love Jesus. i hate men hating men. I live in the West and hope that I love Russian men (as living beings).
The word ‘love’ has become oversexualised. Of course I love love my wife, but that doesn’t stop me loving other living beings.
Interesting insights into Putin’s thinking.
Also see part 1 http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/vladimir-putins-life-rules-putins-first.html
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/vladimir-putins-first-tv-interview-in.html
Vladimir Putin’s first TV interview in 1991 and a follow up in 2002 (Part 2)
[…]
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia: Here I am only worried about one thing. Today I am extremely worried about the material segregation of society. As opposed to other developed countries we have a large number of the poor. And the resources which are accumulated in certain hands belong to a limited number of people.
And this difference between low-income layers and those people who can boast about their millions and billions is unacceptable. The solution is of course is in the development of this middle class, which we talked about 11 years ago.
At the same time we must be very careful, and not rush ahead. I know that what I am saying right now might cause a disapproval from my liberal colleagues. They are a type of “revolutionaries” and “Bolsheviks”, only from the opposite side.
I think we have made many mistakes, and we must learn the lessons. I will tell you why. What was done in the beginning of he 1990’s in principle was right, they created the base, but some decisions were so harsh and so painfully reflected on ordinary citizens, that the leadership of the country for the most part had lost the trust of ordinary citizens, and was forced for many years to just stumble in one place. Nothing could be approved in the parliament. Overall it was very costly for reform policies, because the resource of trust into authorities has been spent in the first years.
And this was a mistake We must act decisively along the line of market reforms, but very carefully, with minimal, and better – without any loss for ordinary citizens.
Is this possible?
This is the art of domestic politics which we had talked about. This is why I told you it’s most interesting – to find a golden middle, the balance, between moving ahead, but not forgetting about the home base. Not to forget that all these reforms are done not for some aliens, but for our ordinary citizens. And they must feel that something is changing for the better, otherwise it’s all senseless.
[…]
What a beautiful song-Living water. Amazing!!
Too much sad stuff here saker. The past is only for remembering so as not to repeat past mistakes or for preventing past tragedies occuring in the the future.
Russia needs a Russian version of Bruce Springstein’s born in the USA.
this is OT but interesting and connected with Ukraine
http://orientalreview.org/2015/04/06/land-grab-in-ukraine-is-monsantos-backdoor-to-the-eu/
Two words, OUTSTANDING performance !!!
A tale of two May Day’s.
1.In Kiev fascists and police stop celebration of May Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmupZbn2pFU
2.In Donbass the people happily celebrate May Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTV7GtxYxA
Oh dear, so many thanks for the spiritsurging heartfilling singing of Pelagja. And the reminder of (our) father’s traumata. Now repeated perfidiously in the Donbass. Hey ! >”Pacifist” any form of combat has to be employed for tactical reasons . Therein a. therewith cruelty a. the negation of the Geneva Convention – systematically employed by the organs of the fascist neoandoldnazi Galizian Khazarian Kiew Natostooges , has the function to attempt to demoralize, dastabilize… Ignorant are they, that actually this has the opposite effect in Russia , see sanctions/boycott/economical war
Wow. The first video: “Пелагея и “Забайкалье” Снежочки Pelageya and “Zabaikalje” Snowballs”.
What is that cool bird-shaped wind instrument that fellow is playing in the second video?