Not everyone thinks Palpatine is the bad guy, here. ("You rebel scum!")
- "I'd say he knows a little more about Left Communism than you do, pal, because he invented it!"
- Bourgeoisie/Bougie, people that own some property; more property than the poor, but not enough to be aristocrats, so, yeah, the irredeemable deplorable enemy of both classes.
- Popular sovereignty + Isaiah 40:4 → Levellers + Acts 4:32 → Diggers (1660s) → Diggers (1960s) → Free store
- Involution (bureaucracy), system of interdependent bureaucracies that exists only to perpetuate itself, e.g., Imperial China, China (PRC) (from entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy)
- Red fascism (Mussolini meant it as a complement!)
Mao was generous to the Petite Bourgeoisie, believing them curable, in need only of re-education, while Obama called them "bitter clingers", Hillary called them "irredemable deplorables" (that is, Untermenschen), and Stalin called them Kulacks.
- Inalienable - unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor
- Alienation - a sense of being controlled or exploited, lack of identity with the products of one’s labor
So, if as a result of a particular alienation, a class believes that they have inalienable rights, they must be subjected to an alternative form of alienation until they are alienated from the belief in inalienable rights? (Mao's consideration of the higher peasants in first chapter of Little Red Book).
Progressive timeline
editA small reading assignment for my Kansas colleagues:
| 1215 | Magna Carta | The proposition of no taxation without representation, at least for barons. |
| c1730 | Cheyenne | The Cheyenne invade and settle the west-central Plains. |
| 1776 | US Declaration of Independence | The authoritative proposition the equality of all people, regardless of class. |
| Late 1770s | Republican Pawnee | Kitkehahki band begins displacement of the Kaw. Given that the Kitkehahki band were interpreted as a rebellion against the Loup Pawnee, French traders on the Kansas River named them "Republicans" to mock the rebellious English Colonies. |
| 1788 | Constitution of the United States | Novel system of protection of rights to personal property, inclusive of thoughts and body. |
| 1789-1799 | French Revolution | While largely a revolution of liberation from autocratic legalism, replace by self-government, some factions were early Socialist models, later cited by Karl Marx. |
| 1793-1794 | Reign of Terror | Tens of thousands executed in France by the Committee of Public Safety. |
| 1794-1795 | Thermidorian Reaction | Bloody counter-revolutionary reaction to the perceived atrocities of the Committee of Public Safety. Later, the Socialist Left regarded the Socialist Right, particularly Lenin and Stalin, as Soviet Thermadors. |
| 1790s | Marquis de Sade | De Sade becomes the "first reasoned socialist" by being the first to state that the bourgeoisie exist to repress and exploit the proletariat. |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase | |
| 1806 | Pike-Pawnee Expedition | Zebulon Pike finds the Republican Pawnee in control of the Smoky Hills. |
| 1825 | Kaw Reservation | Receiving some small compensation for land already lost to Plains Tribes and Missouri Slavers, the few hundred remaining Kaw were allotted a 30 mile-wide reservation from Topeka up the Kansas River and the Smoky Hill River. Small point, see 1806. |
| 1830s-40s | Dog Soldiers | In their own revolt, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers occupy the upper forks of the Kansas River in western Kansas. |
| 1842 | Kaw Expulsion | John Frémont records that the Pawnee had driven the Kaw east of Wamego. |
| 1843 | Wyandotte | After years of indecision, the Wyandotte voluntarily sell out of Sandusky and purchase land from the Delaware Reservation, establishing the first Masonic Lodge in Kansas. |
| 1844/ 1846 | Kaw Flood | The flood of 1944 destroyed the Kaw's crops and remaining villages, and they relocated to Council Grove in 1846. |
| 1859 | Wyandotte Constitution | The Wyandotte hosted the fourth and successful final constitutional convention for the State of Kansas. |
| 1853 | William Walker | Locals elect William Walker, a Wyandotte, as the Provisional governor of Kansas–Nebraska Territory. |
| 1854 | Kansas–Nebraska Act | The preceptory Act to Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859) and the subsequent Civil War. |
| 1855 | Battle of Indian Rock | The last of a series of battles between the Plains Tribes on one hand and the Kaw and resettled tribes on the other; at Indian Rock, a small band of Kaw rifles devastate 300 bow-and-arrow-wielding Cheyenne (who had displaced the Pawnee), creating a sense of security for the establishment of Salina. |
| 1861-1865 | American Civil War | |
| 1867 | Das Kapital | The authoritative proposition that the motivating force of capitalism is the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value. |
| 1867-1868 | Kansas Indian War | The construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway west of Salina precipitated conflict with the Dog Soldiers. |
| 1891 | Rerum novarum | Pope Leo XIII's famous encyclical records that the definitions of Socialism as the end of private property and Marxism as Socialism under the theory of justified class warfare ("that the wealthy and the working men are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict") was broadly understood as to merit scarce mention. The Pope proposes the novel concept of "Solidarity" of all classes under Christ. |
| 1909-1914 | Mussolini was a preeminent socialist, describing Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism." | |
| 1914-1918 | World War I | Initially, Socialist saw the war as an opportunity to overthrow the middle class, but in the course of the war many Socialists became patriotic, and after the war began efforts for Social revolutions in single countries. |
| 1917 | The Germans drop a Bolshevik bomb on Russia. | |
| 1917 | February Revolution | |
| 1917 | October Revolution | |
| 1918-1922 | Red Terror | Lenin's consolidation of Bolshevik authority. (50,000–200,000 executed / up to 1.3 million from all causes) |
| 1917-1932 | Dekulakization | Lenin and Stalin (and later Mao) observed that the best farmers held contrary opinions on Collective farming and had to be "liquidated". (390,000–600,000 executions) |
| 1918 | Spanish flu | |
| 1923-1961 | Gulag | (1.6 million deaths) |
| 1927 | The Doctrine of Fascism(?) | Mussolini complemented both Hitler and Stalin on their Black and Red Fascism. |
| 1927-1953 | Stalinism | |
| 1929-1930s | Great Depression | |
| 1932 | Law of Spikelets | The exact opposite of the Biblical command to leave crops in the fields for the poor, the Law of Spikelets means that only class enemies leave crops in the field for the poor. |
| 1932–1933 | The Soviet famine | What happens when you execute all of your best farmers as class enemies and replace them with unemployable city folk? (5.7 to 8.7 million deaths) |
| 1932–1933 | Holodomor | The Ukrainian term for the Soviet famine within Ukraine is Holodomor, meaning "execution by starvation," since the Ukrainians experienced it as a Soviet genocide. (~ 3.5 million deaths) |
| 1936-1938 | Great Purge | Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the party and nation. (1 million executions) |
| 1939-1945 | World War II | 6.8 million Ukrainians killed by both Nazis and Soviets. |
Progressive glossary
edit- State
- Any political entity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence
- Tribalism
- The expanded family group owns everything collectively
- Monarchy
- The State owns everything, from which the Crown doles out grants
- Bureaucracy
- The State is regulated by system of self-ruled administrative organizations (e.g., the involuted Bureaucracies of Imperial China)
- Capitalism
- Investment of owned property, inclusive of personal labor, to increase owned property.
- Slavery
- Ownership of other person’s labor without compensation beyond physical sustenance, if that.
- Wage Labor
- Compensation of person’s labor
- Liberalism
- Limitation of the State (Crown and/or Church) authority over private individuals, i.e., natural right to life, liberty and property
- Direct Democracy
- The State is regulated by majority of private individuals
- Republicanism
- The State is regulated by an elected deliberative body
- Communalism
- All real property and labor in common, e.g., Monasticism, Utopianism
- Socialism
- No property owned by private individuals [Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, 1891]
- Socialist Revolutionism
- Socialism only by Revolution against Middle Class (elimination of existing systems)
- Communism
- Socialism justified by appeal to Class Retaliation [ibid.], i.e., Marxism
- Bolshevism (Leninism)
- Communist retaining certain systems, i.e., Bureaucratic Communism
- Fascism
- Socialist Revolution in single National State, regulated by organized physical violence
- Stalinism
- Bureaucratic Communist Revolution in single National State, regulated by State violence (Fascism with Russian characteristics [according to Mussolini])
- Nazism
- Socialist Revolution in Single-Race State (Fascism with "Arian" characteristics)
- Maoism
- Stalinism with Chinese characteristics (Sino-Soviet split directly resulted from De-Stalinization)
- Ba'athism
- Stalinism with Arab characteristics
- Xism
- Socialism with Chinese characteristics (including reverence for Stalin) [Wikipedia]
Not everyone thinks Stalin is the bad guy, here.