Kurt Eisner, born on this day in 1867, was a German socialist revolutionary and radical journalist who was assassinated by a far-right nationalist while serving as head of the People's State of Bavaria.
Kurt Eisner, born to a Jewish family in Berlin, was a revolutionary German socialist, radical journalist, and theater critic. Before leading the People's State of Bavaria, he worked as a journalist in Marburg, Nuremberg, and Munich. In the early 1890s, Eisner served nine months in prison for writing an article that attacked Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In 1918, Eisner was convicted of treason for his role in inciting a strike of munitions workers. He spent nine months in Cell 70 of Stadelheim Prison, but was released during the General Amnesty in October of that year.
Following his release from prison, Eisner helped organize the revolution that overthrew the Bavarian monarchy, declaring Bavaria to be a free state and republic. Despite Eisner's socialist politics, he explicitly distanced the movement from the Bolsheviks and promised to uphold property rights.
On February 21st, 1919, while on his way to deliver his resignation to Parliament, Eisner was assassinated in Munich by a far-right German nationalist. Eisner's murder made him a martyr for left-wing causes, and a period of lawlessness in Bavaria followed his death.
On the night of April 6th-7th, 1919, communists, encouraged by the news of the communist revolution in Hungary, declared a Soviet Republic, with Ernst Toller as chief of state. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was crushed by the right-wing German Freikorps.
Some of the military leaders of the Freikorps, including Rudolf Hess and Franz Ritter von Epp, would go on to become powerful figures in the Nazi Party. Ironically, Adolf Hitler himself marched in the funeral procession for Eisner, a Jew, wearing a red armband as a display of sympathy.
"Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse."
- Kurt Eisner
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I'd talk about it here. My musings from outside the anglosphere as an imperfect goblin #1:
I'd start talking about wealth disparity. I finally got the visceral feeling for why charity feels good. It's felt like a responsibility before, but it sort of clicked for me. I was having tummy troubles and shitting all fucking day, right? We go out in the heat in the middle of the day because my friend doesn't feel comfortable doing anything but be intense. I go with him and my stomach starts rumbling. So I ask to go use the bathroom at this restaurant. They have the regular, standard toilet in the back of a shed. They clearly live here and it's so sparse with things strewn about and it's not electrified. They have the barrel with water in it for flushing the toilet. They have plywood and old PVC pipe over the grass for a sink and a bar of soap (that part idk bc there are 2 marts that are 2 minutes walking and hand soap is <$2 and you work with food).
I get back to the table and the food is served. We eat and it's chill. I start watching them have their little stations and essentially stare at this young girl cutting fruit. When it comes time to pay, we get the bill and it's like $8 for both of our foods and smoothies. I round it up to the nearest whole number and give them another bill on top of that. When they try to give me the extra bill back I wave her off. Her face softens as she says thank you. Sometimes I bow my head to say thank you or goodbye because I'm a bit quirky, but this place makes me want to prostrate myself to say thank you for the kindness.
I have a friend who wants to record a monologue for his reel because he has a desire to act in LA. I want him to do one in our usual spot for food and then have our friends at the diner serve him food in the middle. I think it would make for a really cool shot, but then I could surprise them with a 10x larger bill as a thank you. I'm sure they'd be so happy.
The people are so cool and happy. There's a lot they deserve, but it's not like they need to be liberated from their everyday life. I'd sooner want to liberate Americans to be able to chill like they do. I'd talk later about this small child raised doing martial arts and how I hope he has options for his future if he wants them. But I also want to talk about how we've engaged in debauchery because it's not like I'm only comprised of charity and goodwill.
oh thank you! i often do not check my messages, so i'm happy i ran across this. i hate to think if other hexbears have been impelled to post at my prodding, only for me to unwittingly ignore them. apologies, especially to the guy years ago, at the beginning of the ukraine war, who wrote me nearly a thesis on descriptive and normative international relations theory, only for me never to respond!
i imagine you come off more as a goblin when you're debauched. great read and sentiment (well organized, articulated). certainly appreciate the kindness sans condescension.
i've been working on a volunteer matter for just about two years now, and have finally resolved it, allowing a number of clients, who are children, to stay in this country. when i conveyed to them their official paperwork, they were just beaming, so happy and thankful, with and for me. obviously they didn't know or care that i'm also a little goblin, just a piece of scum, a middling practitioner, formerly a huge piece of shit. that didn't matter to them, and in that moment, didn't matter much to me either.
what country is this? if you're willing to say so for opsec reasons
Death to America
I don't feel comfortable saying which country. I feel comfortable enough saying South America
Israel is an apartheid regime which should be dissolved.