The most important thing a society produces are the children it raises, formes and instructs in how to live their lives and what is a normal, societally expected behavior. This is why if we want to compare the results of imperialism (capitalism in its highest developped stage) and socialism (as the once existing DDR, Soviet Union or the countries of Eastern Europe) we mustn’t compare the cars or computers produced in the US and the Soviet Union, but the young generations, the teaching system not only in schools and university but through all of the different aspects of life.
How to love, how to look at each other, how to compete or share the socialist joy of working together, all those are aspects which come to be seen in a very different light by the young generations growing up in either a socialist or a capitalist state. There is a sharp pressure of needing to compare one’s own achievements and to be winning against the competitors in capitalism which hurts a lot of people and clearly prevents us all from realizing our potential or living the satisfying life we could be living if only the system was more focussed and built around human needs rather than the securing of the bourgeois power and wealth.
It is quite easy to see and understand how much superior the system in the East was by simply looking at some photographs and comparing the adolescents and the clothes they wore. In socialism, there is room for the individual emerging out of the monotony of equal uniforms; when everyone is looking almost the same or very similar from a formal point of view, there can emerge the perception of unique personal traits, lovely characteristics. In contrast, here in capitalism, the individualistic thrive to appear different in clothing, style or simply in the things you do and define yourself through them, is imposing a lot of harmful, unproductive pressure.
But not every kind of pressure or tension is bad.

SN 5

Source of power

Knockout

With this episode I might have knocked myself out. There is a certain time for theory and another for practice. This episode completes the circle of theory and is a clear and present signal to act, to risk something, to enter the fray (sich ins Getümmel stürzen). In the time to come, there might not be published so many podcasts, it depends on the tcourse of the difficult operation I am trying to carry out, but there are definetly more important things in life than podcasting making it logical to seek for perfection in those areas rather than in writing or speaking creativity.
Today Chinese player Ding Liren won a confusing game against Russian Grand Master Ian Nepomniachi. Through this stunning win Ding equalized the score and there remain two games in the match.
In the faces of those player I perceive a certain brilliance, but also a beauty, something deep and well formed. Those eyes have seen every possible move of the chess pieces and behind their forehead they have imagined every possible constellation and strategy.

Love Letter

Graphomaniac

The eminem song I mentioned:

Till I Collapse https://youtu.be/Pi3_Zs-oRUo
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Todays Episode is overly romantic. Although I feel a drive towards romanticism and the need for a deep, lasting and transforming love experience, since reading the essay »On Romanticism« by communist writer Peter Hacks (#100 of my German podcast), I think a little differently about it. Romanticism is a drive to a dark, obscure place, the will to sink into the darkness where you can make no distinctions and not discern anything. However pleasureful it might be to follow romantic role models and invent a »crazy« way of loving for yourself, at some point there comes the difficult moment where you have to confront yourself with the idea of realization of the desired good, the love experience with that imagined person you feel driven towards and want to clung to their lips either to listen or to kiss and so on…
Because if not, if you prefer to keep in the imaginary bubble and solely enjoy admiring and yearning for the other person while being inhibited in direct interactions because of fear to what it could lead and if this real thing would be up to your expectations and dreams, then this is clearly cowardice, self-deception and unproductive.

Life isn’t uniquely about love, there are several fields where you can develop your character, enjoy habits like sports, creating or consuming art, your hobbies, friends, and most importantly, your daily work. But love certainly is placed in a very high spot by the societal context. And of course it also is a very disturbing subject of my life, my past and future and seems to be the answer to everything. The rush for finding my own definitions on love matters maybe serves to put it into a lower spot, so I can reach it, because if it is so high and brillinat, I don’t even dare to imagina it could be grasped, could be worth a try.
Therefore I say: love and friendship are equal, or at least they are not nearly as different as assumed in today’s reality forming discourse. This discourse puts all those romantic ingredients into my podcasts, thoughts and writings; I need to fight and overcome this romantic drive a little bit in order to be able to grasp real love, that is, material love where you can see, smell or touch your partner and there is a direct presence, not the hypothetical situation of yearning and craving for the loved person.
The material basis of life, the production of goods and services determines everything else, says Karl Marx, as religion, believes, convictions, narratives, art etc., every part of a society relies on the steady production of what is needed to survive and reproduce our biological organisms on a daily basis. Therefore it is logical to be a materialist, affirming what is going to be part of our world anyway, producing our very reality. Materialism has nothing to do with what today in the vulgar discourse of the plebs is understood as such: consumerism, shallowness, a narrow focus on shiny new stuff. No, it is in its core the affirmation of love, of the need for your missing half that is going to fulfill and complete you. Because as humans this behavior or feeling is deeply programmed into our genes, the species couldn’t have survived without it; therefore we ought to be thankful and enjoy this present our forefathers inherited to us, life in all its aspects and also in its maybe greatest aspect, this sexual desire, love or however one might call the unspeakable.

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The speaker and author thinks now that this episode is not even as good as the last one; my philosophical speculations about the mountain ridge or crest were highly valueble I noticed when publishing it, the whole subject of the being at a fork in the road is a vast, immense one, difficult to oversea or even express what we are talking about here.

Today’s episode is an in-between one, a connecting link between the better episodes. It’s not as good as the one that follow nor as the precursors, yet it stated some valuable points. For once, that thinking of biology makes me nauseous, I never liked those parts in school when our biology teacher taught us about the human body, its organs and their functions. It’s kind of interesting to learn all this and good to know, but I feel I don’t want to go back to it again after once hearing about it, because it would make life impossible to think every time of how you breathe and how the oxygen gets into your lungs and from there into the blood and in the cells… you would start noticing each breath and that would totally disturb your cognitive balance, I fear every time when confronted with the biological basis of our lives.
That being said, I want to state that it is my personal approach to love to think of it more as a mental thing, a play of imaginations, deceive, temptetations and, hopefully, realization of the desired love relationship with that unique person calling one’s attention.
Sex of course is also a very deep desire and need for most of us and it transforms and pervades our inner reality.
Yet it is not that important as love. Sex can be part of a love relationship, but it doesn’t have to be. The other way around, there can emerge love inside a relationship built initially uniquely around the desire to satisfy the sexual drive.
Which way of loving is adequate for one is a personal question and can only be answered in the intimacy of self reflection.

From my point of view, it is reasonable to share sex and diverse love gestures, experiences or liberties among all of us, although it is hard think and the mainstream narrative about love also deeply roots inside me, making me feel guilty and insane for my actions and dreams.
Maybe I cannot do so much for my lovers as I dreamed and intended initially, but still I hope something can be done, we can exchange words and gifts, like smiles or compliments.

As a matter of fact, Wolodimir Selenski is carrying out an unjust war against Russia that was preventable also by his own actions. Selenski is sending his troops to missions like the defence of Bakhmut, that are by any strategic military points of view senseless and only lead to heavy losses of human lives.
By no means I want to completely exculpate the Russian position and actions, which also contributed to this war. But I don’t want to judge Russia, because I don’t know the country so well. What I know are these western bourgeois states like Germany and I know they compose an empire of evil that brutally puts its citizen into mental jails, forbidding them to think outside of the government dictated box, the set of accepted views on policies, on history or even on health issues as seen during the covid pandemic. Who doesn’t comply to those norms is an outsider and will become socially isolated.
And yes, there is a lot of wealth here so during our life time as working slaves who are forced to sell our work capacity to the bourgeois rulers and oligarchs, we can have some little joys infused by consumer goods, but in the end this society will throw us away to the garbage, as happens in the capitalist nursing homes, where there can be no adequate care for the old people because everything is subordinated to producing profit.

So what I want to say is that I rather feel inclined to make a judgement about the Selenski government than about Russia, because Ukraine committed itself to the western monopolistic power block and is now at its mercy - for example it could not survive without the loans granted by western countries or the weapons sent.
And knowing this western power block like the back of my hand, I claim that it is not such a good idea to align oneself to the west. Because as seen in the past years already since 2014, when the US-sponsored coup occured in Ukraine, there was no economic development, no factories were built and the ukrainian labour market is still a disaster; it is almost impossible to find a job, even before the invasion last year.
The only thing the west cares about, is putting those ukrainian lands and citizens on the line in their strategic fight to weaken Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy against another power. This repeated pattern can be seen through most of the 20th century, for example in the wholly irrational and monstrously violent Vietnam war that the US and its allies fought for so many years, being under the delusion of fulfilling a holy mission and stopping the communist expansion. They always find new pretexts for those wars, but at the base they are an economic necessity in capitalism, the war machine needs to be oiled, new gear has to be tested, used in combat and the defence suppliers want to see their profit increase, for which end they pay the politicians, support their election campaign, so they will have their interest in mind.
In Ukraine, it is clear that NATO and the western monopolistic block are the aggressors and Ukraine itself is merely the victim of this cynical geopolitics, dragging two countries to war and not caring about the thousands of lives sacrificed on the table of bourgeois profit seeking.

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Khane
Zitat Lenin: https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1920/06/natfrag.htm

11. In bezug auf die zurückgebliebeneren Staaten und Nationen, in denen feudale oder patriarchalische und patriarchalisch-bäuerliche Verhältnisse überwiegen, muß man insbesondere im Auge behalten:
erstens die Notwendigkeit, daß alle kommunistischen Parteien die bürgerlich-demokratische Befreiungsbewegung in diesen Ländern unterstützen; die Pflicht zur aktivsten Unterstützung haben in erster Linie die Arbeiter desjenigen Landes, von dem die zurückgebliebene Nation in kolonialer oder finanzieller Hinsicht abhängt;
zweitens die Notwendigkeit, die Geistlichkeit und sonstige reaktionäre und mittelalterliche Elemente zu bekämpfen, die in den zurückgebliebenen Ländern Einfluß haben;
drittens die Notwendigkeit, den Panislamismus und ähnliche Strömungen zu bekämpfen, die die Befreiungsbewegung gegen den europäischen und amerikanischen Imperialismus mit einer Stärkung der Positionen der Khane, der Gutsbesitzer, der Mullahs usw. verknüpfen wollen;

Hegel:

Das Wahre ist das Ganze. Das Ganze aber ist nur das sich in seiner Entwicklung sich vollendende Wesen. Es ist von dem Absoluten zu sagen, dass es wesentlich Resultat, dass es erst am Ende das ist, was es in Wahrheit ist und hierin eben besteht seine Natur, Wirkliches, Subjekt oder Sichselbstwerden zu sein.

KfE

S. 130 »Herrschaft von Menschen über Menschen«

Stalins Werke, Band 10, S. 88:
Unterredung mit der ersten amerikanischen Arbeiterdelegation

»Es muss keinen Bürgerkrieg mehr geben im liberalen Lande, aber das ist teuer erkauft: die Leute haben den Bürgerkrieg jetzt im Innern.«
So war sinngemäßt das Zitat aus Marlon Grohns »Hass von oben, Hass von unten«.
Den Bürgerkrieg haben wir heutzutage also in uns selbst.


Die transformierende Kraft der Arbeit.

So, people, this recording (»grabación« in Spanish) was made as part of a longer series of privat podcasts in which I talked indistinctively switching between English, Spanish and German. In these privat podcasts I talk about personal problems, everyday life affairs and encounters. Yet at the very evening of this podcast I felt so under pressure for various reasons that I needed to record a public episode, betraying, denouncing and smearing my home land, Germany.
Oh yes, I’m up for treason, I should be indicted and jailed. And I’d love to go to jail because a lot of sane people are there and a lot of ill people are out here. But whatever the case in my subjective preferrences, as long as the bourgeois class justice system does not put me away behind bars, I will speak bluntly and speak my mind to you, dear listeners.
And this act of speaking bluntly and clearing ones soul and conscience about the real underlying motives for certain actions, is the trigger for the justice system to look deeper into the everyday misbehaviours of that individual and indict him for cases that otherwise would have been overlooked as part of the natural agreement in society, an agreement which the blunt speaker had violated. With this I’m referring a brilliant explanation by Friedrich Nietzsche from his master piece »Human, All Too Human« (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches). Yes, german philosophy is something infinitely beautiful and so are many other inventions and accomplishments by Germans. But the historic occurrance of World War 2 and Germanys genocidal fasiscm is such a determining event for the world order as we know it today, that one cannot look at Germany without looking first at fascism.
And yeah, what can I say? I’m not claiming Germans are fascistic in ideology, but in a way we all are fascists because the material roots of our beings are founded on the historic tragedy of nazi barbarism killing millions of Jews, Russians and many other people and launching a war that cost dozens of millions of lives, incredible sorrow and pain.
The economic strength of post war Germany is founded upon the economy of Nazi Germany, the forced labor in the mines and fabrics, the gold of the Jews and so on. It has all been handed over and Germany was good to go after the war into a brilliant prosperous future because the US needed them as a loyal ally in their holy fight against Communism.
And with my discourse today and onwards I do not just want to say that Germans are fascists, but also French, British and Americans, every nation that belongs to the imperialistic powerhouse or monopol represented in such institutional covers as NATO, the IMF, EU and so on. These are organs of the bourgeois class, although they do not send each capitalist to the ministry but organize it subtly which leads the mass of the people, the proletariat believe they are in charge, voting and marketing their working assets. Liberalism is the practice of controlling peoples minds by making them fragmented, distracted and in a sense, truly »free«, so that they are relieved from the burden of taking a look at the world as a whole and making a political judgement about it.

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Diese Folge widme ich meinem Mitbewohner aus dem Senegal, der vor Kurzem eingelocht wurde wegen angeblicher Drogendelikte. Jede Arbeit ist wichtig, auch jene, die an den Rändern und Schattenseiten der Gesellschaft stattfinden.

Die bürgerliche Welt bildet uns, legt die Grenzen unseres Pfade, unserer Träume und Begierlichkeiten fest. Sie ist widersprüchlich, verschwendet auch ihre Ressourcen; man weiß nciht, warum sich Überbauphänomene manchmal so selbstständig machen wie die Drogenverfolgung, obwohl sie nicht mit den Erfordernissen der Basis erklärt werden können. Man weiß auch nicht, warum der Kapitalismus nicht Afrika entwickelt und auf unseren Stand der Produktivkräfte bringt, einfach um dort wiederum größere Absatzmärkte zu haben und weiterzuwachsen. (Höchstens mit dem typisch kapitalistischen Verfolgungswahn und Gefühl der Bedrängung, Unsicherheit ist das zu erklären, dass es einen stetigen Wettkampf der Nationen geben muss, worin die meisten zurückbleiben und niedergewirtschaftet werden, um die Sieger zufriedenzustellen) Es gibt viele Widersprüche und Ungereimtheiten. Aber wir alle sind nur so hier und der eine versucht so, der andere anders seine Schädigungen und Deformierungen durch das System zu überwinden und eine gewisse Rebellion auszudrücken.
Der Kapitalismus ist immer noch besser als Anarchie und Gesetzlosigkeit. Aber sollte sich die Möglichkeit ergeben, ihn zu entthronen, werde ich nicht zögern, das Schwert zu ergreifen, im klaren Bewusstsein, dass auch er nicht gezögert hätte, mich einzukerkern oder schlicht zu erschießen in den gegebenen Umständen oder wäre ich auf einem anderen Weltteil geboren, wo dem Staat nicht so viel an juristischer Genauigkeit gegen seine Bürger liegt und man auf einfache Weise jemanden loswerden kann. Vor allem diese Frage: wofür das alles? Mag sein, dass es Gefängnisse braucht, auch im Sozialismus noch, wenngleich die Menschen dort weniger Neigungen haben werden, ihre Mitmenschen zu schädigen, da sie ja in besseren Umständen produzieren und sich verwirklichen können. Aber was ist mit uns, die wir noch außerhalb der Gefängnisse sind; was ist das für ein Leben, das wir leben hier und heute? Soll man wirklich sagen: das bin ich und im großen Ganzen bin ich zufrieden, zolle dem gerade geltenden Gott und Kaiser meinen Respekt und lebe in den Rastern, die vorgesehen und um meiner Befriedigung willen errichtet wurden?