I read extensively everything published on the web, from extreme Marxist and Fifth International blogs to Neonazi filth, but I always return to right wing intellectual blogs. They are most entertaining and enjoyable. Just now a tremendous debate is going on HBD Books regarding AltRight Manliness Chief Writer Jack Donovan (aka Rev. Malebranche, of the Church of Satan), a 32 y.o. androphile and former go-go dancer. Some people find it incongruous that a homosexual should be their mentor in Virtus (manliness, in Latin) and teach the White Warrior's Honor Code to them.
One of the recent complaints of the right wing press is why the media deals interminably with the Nazis and scarcely about the no-less-evil Communists. They say it is a Jewish conspiracy (of course). They are wrong. The fact is that Marxism is deadly boring, and all their blogs write about is the historic crisis of capitalism: overaccumulation and reglobalization. As individuals, they cannot be less impressive: No class, they dont know how to dress. Nazis, on the other hand, are all class and style: their look of black-leather gangsters from the twenties (well, they ARE gangsters from the twenties), their gutural vocalizations and death cries soundng like Heavy Metal rock stars, their sinister black 1938 Mercedes Benzes. Even this Jew has to concede the undisputable: sartorially, they are superior. And they all seem to have some fascinating sexual quirk.
One can spend hours imagining those get-together castle balls organized by Himmler for SS officers and Nordic volunteer "Hitler mothers"... Or one of Captain Rohm's Rocky Horror style congresses... Khruschov may have killed millions of fellow Ucrainians, but he had no life (I am discounting his fat, ugly, stupid wife). One has no choice but to read rightist blogs to learn something as interesting as Rev. Malebranche preaching Virtue.
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The Nazis were dressed by Hugo Boss while the British who actually ran a globe straddling empire were outfitted like overgrown boy scouts. As you indicate, this substantially accounts for the childish fascination with the Nazis; most twelve-year olds would pick a Rommel over a Montgomery anyday. George Lucas made Darth Vader with his heavy breathing a more impressive character than Obi-Wan. Pace, CS Lewis the evil man is an extension of our own self, hence the identification with the Darth Vaders and the Terminators, whereas someone like Ben Kingsley in Gandhi comes off looking (in our estimation) like a goodie-goodie.
Similarly, the attraction of the Taliban over the Chicken Little self-hating multi-culti type.
Anon.
The Soviet Chekists (NKVD) with their black leather jackets and black limousines were no fashion slouches.
The Germans had the better fashions but this did not prevent them from losing the war. Goering lying dead on a slab at Nuremberg doesn't look so hot anymore.
K
Goering had to be toned down in the "Battle of Britain" movie.
Anon.
The Cheka had no black limousines. Communist fashion was proletarian.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism.htm
See "black ravens"
The Soviet NKVD cars were not really limousines in the modern sense - rather just black sedans (but almost no one else in Russia at that time had a car except for party officials) but they are often called that in the literature. They always came at night to arrest you.
K
Begin was invited to the municipality. Probably that was the standard practice.
Begin was invited to the municipality. Probably that was the standard practice.
Arrest at night by the men in the black cars ("black crows" чёрный ворон as they were nicknamed) was fairly standard - this is why Wladimirskij made it the subject of a painting (which was inexplicably not censored - perhaps they thought it would only increase the fear which favored them). This is how my mother and her family were arrested.
The GAZ autos were actually American Ford designs - Stalin made a deal with Ford in the early 30s to build an auto factory (similar to their later deal with FIAT to build the Zhiguli/Lad/VAZ). A number of American workers came over to assist in production. At some point they had to either assume Soviet citizenship or leave. Those that chose to stay were later arrested and disappeared in the purges (taken away in the cars that they had helped to build- see Lenin's remark about the rope).
K
Henry Ford thought he had scored one for capitalism by selling Stalin his older production lines. Stalin, the ex bank robber had no problem paying it off though with wheat siezed from the starving and gold from the Kolyma death camps. The heart-breaking story of the Americans who were foolish enough to go to the Soviet Union in search of jobs is told in The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis.
My wife's father's 1st cousin left Petaluma, California (where he was born) to return with his parents to the USSR in '36 (they were Communists). He was a teen. Within a few years, the war started. The father was sent to the front to defend Kiev armed only with a stick and was never seen again. The mother and son were evacuated to Central Asia. The mother was so depressed that she committed suicide. When the son said he wanted to return to the US after the war they told him he better keep his mouth shut and he ended up staying until the end of the Soviet Union. Now his family is back in California after a 50 year interruption.
K
Unfortunately, it is time to leave California again.
Anon.
As "bad" as California is today it is a 1000 times better than Stalin's Russia on a good day. Americans generally have no idea how well off they are (the fools who sailed off to Russia sure didn't). I still wouldn't trade California for Russia even today and the members of my wife's cousin's family have no intention of going back, for sure.
To fill in the story a little, the cousin stayed and became a good Soviet citizen, working as an English translator. The scales were finally lifted from his eyes when his son (who became a Portuguese translator) was rejected for a coveted trip overseas on a mission to Angola (remember that the entire Soviet Union was basically a giant prison and only the most trustworthy inmates were allowed outside the gates). Apparently in the eyes of his superiors he was still a dirty Jews/untrustworthy American even after 2 generations of loyal adherence to the Soviet system. From that moment, he commenced his efforts to reclaim his citizenship and return to the land of his birth.
K
Nonetheless, California is wobbling and may be the first state in the USA to acquire honorary third world status; at least southern California.
Anon.
Anon,
California will never be again what it was in the sixties. Yet I cant see the change as a terrible tragedy. Sure, CAltech will decay as Columbia did, but all in all, South California is a paradise. Salaries are very high, the demand for professionals is very strong. Things are very cheap, food is almost free, everybody and his dog is fat and rich.
Fat, rich and bankrupt.
Anon.
the demand for professionals is very strong.
I think your analysis of California is a little biased because of your position in society.
The Nazis were dressed by Hugo Boss while the British who actually ran a globe straddling empire were outfitted like overgrown boy scouts.
That is also partly because the British founded the boy scouts.
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