Kim was born in Hongseong County, Chungcheong Province on December 16, 1889 as the second son of Kim Hyeong-gyo. He was part of a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage. Kim was described as a broad-minded and intelligent child. When he was 3 years old, his father died, and he grew up under strict education by his mother, Hansan Yi. In 1904, he married Oh Sook-geun. Kim Chwa-chin moved to Seoul in 1905 in order to attend an Army Military Academy, later establishing the Namyeon School in 1907, where modern academic disciplines were taught.
When Kim was 18, he released 50 families of slaves when he publicly burned the slave registry and provided each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea.
Kim also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong to spread the ideology of Korean national liberation. In 1909, he served as a director of the Hansung-Sik Company. He established a northwestern academic institution with An and Yi Kap, and established the Oh Sung-sung School as its affiliated educational institution to serve as vice president. He also helped establish a youth student association.
In 1911, he visited Jokdol Kim Jong-geun in Donui-dong, a fund-raising institution, to establish the Independence Military Academy in northern Gando. However, he ended up being sent to Seodaemun Prison for two years and six months, for his subversive activities. During his sentence, he encountered Kim Gu. After his release from prison in 1913, he wrote a poem, "If a man makes a mistake, it is difficult to tolerate, and if the governor tries to live, he must wait again." In 1916, Kim joined the Korea Liberation Corps, which was formed by Park Sang-jin and Chae Ki-joong, together with Nobalin and Shin Hyun-dae. In 1918, he fled to Manchuria to escape the Japanese rule of Korea, and there signed the Korean Declaration of Independence together with 39 other Korean representatives, a prelude to the March 1st Independence Movement.
He joined the Korea Justice Corps, which focused on Senol, took military responsibility, reorganized the definition group into the military department, and was recommended as the commander. In 1919, he, on the recommendation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, took up the position of general commander of the Northern Military Administration Office Army (Bungnogunjeongseo in Korean). His first action was to install a military center in the mountains of Wangqing County, where he himself became an educator on military leadership. Training under him was strict, and the tasks given to most of the troops under his command was focused on acquiring weapons. In September 1920, 298 people graduated from the First Military Academy.
When the Japanese military unit was sent to Manchuria in October to eliminate the Korean independence forces, it met with Japanese troops in Cheongsan-ri, while moving its independence forces to Mount Baekdu. On October 21, the Battle of Cheongsanri took place after the Battle of Godonghae, starting with Baegun-ri, Baegung, on October 26. In particular, the Northern Korean military regime led by General Kim Chwa-chin contributed greatly to the victory in Cheongsanri by winning a great victory in the Battle of Baegun Pyeongjoon, Gonjeongjeon, and Eorang Village. This victory, where Kim's forces caused around 1200 casualties to the 3000 Japanese soldiers, was a landmark in the battle for independence.
Later that year, he went with the Northern Korean army and arrived at the North Manju Milsan Mountain near Russia. About 10 groups of independence fighters united and took office as vice president of the Korean Liberation Army. When many people moved to northern Russia on a silver lining to support the independence of small ethnic groups, Kim crossed the red river.
But it had thought that he returned to Manchuria to reunite and wait for the scattered comrades, and in March 1925, he founded Sinminbu and became vice chairman of the military and commander of the army. In addition, a school was established as the first place to teach and train elite military officers. At that time, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea appointed him as a member of the Cabinet. Kim did not take office and instead concentrated only on leading the independence forces.
When many officials were captured by the Japanese government in 1927, the new administration was reorganized to lead the new administration as chairman of the Central Committee of the Commission.
In 1928, the Korea Independence Party was formed, and in 1929, when the Korean General Association was established as the successor of the new people, Chwa-chin was designated as the President. During this process, conflicts between the nationalist and communist independence activists intensified. On January 24, 1930, Kim Jwa-jin was assassinated by Park Sang-sil, an agent of the Japanese colonial government. Just before he died, Kim Jwa-jin said, “What to do… I have to die at this time with so much work to do. How regrettable...” Three years after his death, his wife, Oh Sook-geun, recovered his remains and buried them in Hongseong, his hometown.
After the assassination of Kim Chwa-chin, the anarchist movement in Manchukuo and Korea became subject to massive repression. Japan sent armies to attack Shinmin from the south, while pro-Kuomintang forces attacked from the north. By the summer of 1931, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were dead, and the war on two fronts was becoming untenable. The anarchists went underground and anarchist Shinmin was no more.
As a leader of the Korean independence movement, Kim is remembered in both North and South Korea. In 1991, the town of Hongseong restored his birthplace. A festival is now held in his honor every October.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, 57 minutes or so on she drops this fucking turd of a quote without any asterisks afterward. I thought she was better than this trash. Fucking comparing class division to racial or sexual divisions sewn by fascists cause apparently all division is bad and communists are of course just the Pepsi brand of fascism.
lmao that so fuckin ironic, because class collaboration and anti-communist cross class "unity" is the binding element that sustains fascism, it's the acidic blood that makes the xenomorph so dangerous
Fascists precisely harp on ethnic, racial, and religious division because the goal is to prevent class "division" or more accurately class struggle
I don't know who this person is, but she sounds like a clueless lib wide open to actual fascist rhetoric
I was told because I'm taking it in bad faith. But like, look at the first three sentences. "The most telling symptom of fascism is political division. It aims to separate people into 'us' vs 'them'. MANY KINDS OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS INVOLVE SUCH DIVISIONS'
So it exists across many political movments but also is a symptom of fascism, so if your politcal movement is based on division it is fascist is the message or it's a contradiction. If I assume they aren't being paradoxical within 3 sentences, as a published philosopher shouldn't, I'd have to conclude the first take is what they meant. Then the very first example given is class division. You don't use the exception as your first example. So the author meant that Communism is a form of fascism. This is hardly a bad faith reading considering that is what the overwhelming majority of people believe and what is easily published when writing about fascism.
So both the people working on the video admit the quote is sourced from a neolib they disagree with but put it in the video anyway, instead of...anyone else with a pretty generic take on fascism who is a leftist? Because the rest of the video and the context surrounding the quote but never addressing the anti communist implications of the quote being generally leftist though not specifically communist nor defending communism means I'm the asshole for pointing it out. It's a six hour video, a couple seconds discrediting part of the quote or picking someone else to quote saying that fascism sows division shouldn't be too hard. Radlibs.
Breadtubers do be taking my criticism as legit and also taking it personally at the same time. The editor has also stepped in to say the rest of the six hour video makes up for it, ignoring the editorial choice to not pick a different quote or to comment on the quote more thoroughly and instead to rely on the assumption they don't agree with the entirety by implication of the rest of a long video. Don't tell.me I'm right and then explain why I'm wrong.
It really doesn't matter what the other six hours of her video says, someone could be a talented astrophysicist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject; but the minute they mention the sun revolves around the earth they've completely undermined their credibility and shown they have no grasp of mechanism or fundamentals
Parroting the first principles of fascist rhetoric shows she's either an extremely unserious person or something worse, but whether she believes in the fascist conception of class or just dislikes "division" in a kind of metaphysical moralistic sense is largely irrelevant though
The damning part is that she showed she doesn't know what fascism is or why it manifests, which makes her the most pitiful creature of all: A Liberal
She's been better than this previously. She's a leftist that I'm certain uses the term tankie as an unironic prejorative in conversation. She has good criticism within her lanes which is generally lgbtq stuff and has been pretty deep with colonialism but I guess she's right at the dividing line between being someone discussing 'colonialism' and 'imperialism' and there is an effort in the videos to soft peddle more left wing stuff to an audience that is mostly there for nerd shit. She's further left than her audience and I'm further left than her. She did one a while back about Labor in general thst I commented on and she said in a reply she was trying to do a Marxism without saying the Marxism in the video. But yeah, breadtube do be tubing. This was some bullshit. It is a fun video otherwise and taken against the rest of the video, I'd still say watch it, thar part was crap and I didn't really like being told I was right but also wrong for pointing it out.