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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Zodiark@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I read the book as a teenager but seeing it in live-action was brutal. You forget that soldiers used gas and fucking flamethrowers on people, and they did it so their ruling class can get even wealthier.

Remembering that the causes of that war were about European empires trying to carve up Germany because capital had reached its zenith under the pre-war status quo unless it acquired new markets and territories to expand into was just eye-opening.

:eu-cool: :germany-cool: :france-cool:

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[-] Zodiark@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

The Imperialism of all countries knows no “understanding,” it knows only one right – capital’s profits: it knows only one language – the sword: it knows only one method – violence. And if it is now talking in all countries, in yours as well ours, about the “League of Nations,” “disarmament,” “rights of small nations,” “self-determination of the peoples,” it is merely using the customary lying phrases of the rulers for the purpose of lulling to sleep the watchfulness of the proletariat.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/11/25.htm

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

It's pretty wild listening to libs whine about "sovereignty" and "self determination" regarding Ukraine given, like... everything that has happened in the 21st century.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Sovereignty is when white capitalists are in charge

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