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Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.

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Erich Muhsam was born in Berlin in 1878 into a fairly well-to-do Jewish family. Soon after his family moved to Luebeck in north Germany where his father worked as a pharmacist (in fact the pharmacy is still there).

He hated the school where he was sent, which was known for its authoritarian discipline and its unsparing use of corporal punishment. Erich was often a victim of "the unspeakable flailings which were supposed to beat out of me all my innate feelings" because his rebellious nature often clashed with the school regime. In 1896 he wrote an anonymous piece for the socialist paper Luebecker Volsboten denouncing one of the school's most brutal teachers. This caused a scandal and Erich was expelled for taking part in socialist activities.

Erich had wanted to be a writer and poet from an early age and he left Luebeck to pursue this aim in Berlin in 1900. He got involved in a group called Neue Gemeinschaft (New Society) which combined socialist ideology with experiments in communal living. Here he met Gustav Landauer who introduced him to anarchist communist ideas. Muehsam contributed to Kampf, the anarchist paper of his friend Senna Hoy, who later died in terrible conditions in a Russian prison.

In 1904 Erich went to Ascona in Italian Switzerland to live in the artists' colony of Monte Verita (the writer Herman Hesse, the dance theorist Laban, the psychotherapist Otto Gross and many Daddaists and Expressionists lived there at one time or other).

He began writing plays there, the first of which, The Con Men, mixed new political theory with traditional dramatic forms. He also continued contributing to many anarchist papers, which drew the attention of the German authorities. He was considered one of the most dangerous anarchist agitators.

He moved to Munich in 1908 and took part in the cabaret movement. He did not care much for writing cabaret songs, but he achieved much notice because of them.

In 1911 he founded the paper Kain which advocated anarchist communism. He castigated and ridiculed the German state, fighting capital punishment and theatre censorship, and prophetically analysing international affairs. The World War that he had predicted led to the suspension of Kain.

At first Erich publicly supported the war, but by the end of 1914 was persuaded that he had been wrong, saying that, "I will probably have to bear the sin of betraying my ideals for the rest of my life". He threw himself into anti-war activity taking part in various actions. He supported the strikes that were beginning to break out. As these became more widespread and began to take on a revolutionary nature, Erich was among those arrested and imprisoned in April 1918, and then freed in November.

With the fall of the Kaiser and King Ludwig of Bavaria, Munich burst into revolt. Muehsam and Landauer as well as Ret Marut (later known as the novelist B. Traven) were among those agitating for the setting up of Workers Councils which led on to the founding of the Bavarian Council Republic. This lasted only a week. The Social Democrats, terrified by the thought of revolution, allied with the right. The Freikorps, a reactionary militia organised by the socialist minister Noske and composed of right wing military and students, crushed the Council Republic. Landauer died under the blows of rifle butts and boots.

Muehsam escaped but was later captured and sent to prison for 15 years. In prison, Erich continued with his writing, composing many poems and the play Judas. Released in the amnesty of 1924, he returned to a Munich in the grip of apathy. He joined the Anarchist Communist Federation of Germany (FKAD). He restarted Kain but this failed after a few issues. He then brought out Fanal (The Torch) where he attacked both the Communists and the far right. His openly revolutionary tone and his attempts to stop the rise of the right made him a hate figure among conservatives and Nazis.

He used satire to ridicule the Nazis with short stories and poems. This came to the personal attention of Hitler and Goebbels, arousing their anger. He agitated for the freeing of the revolutionary Max Hoelz and wrote a play, Staatsraeson (For reasons of State) in defence of Sacco and Vanzetti), in 1928.

In 1930 he completed his last play Alle Wetter (All Hang) which called for mass revolution as the only way to stop the seizure of power by the radical Right.

A few hours after Van der Lubbe had set fire to the Reichstag in February 1933, Muehsam was arrested and then spent the last 17 months of his life in the concentration camps of Sonnenburg, Brandenburg and Oranienburg. His teeth were smashed in with rifle butts, his scalp was branded with a swastika from a red-hot iron and he was hospitalised. He was forced to dig his own grave for a mock execution, and his body became a mass of bruises and wounds. His tormentors tried to force him to sing the Nazi song the Horst Wessel Lied. He refused to give in and sang the International. " Thanks to his will power he resisted all attempts to humiliate him" (Augustin Souchy).

Despite these tortures Erich remained intransigent to the end. Finally he was tortured and murdered on the night of 9th July 1934. After beatings, a Stormtrooper leader administered a lethal injection and then a suicide by hanging was faked.

Never in my life have I learnt

To submit to anyone

Here I am locked up,

Far from my home,

My wife, my workshop.

And even if they kill me,

If I must die,

To give up is to lie!

...

But if the chains broke

Then I would breathe in sunshine

At the top of my lungs- Tyranny!

And I would cry to the people: be free!

Forget to submit yourselves!

To give up is to lie!

From Muhsam's poem The Prisoner

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago
[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Music is a good thing, it's something everyone should be able to participate in and the artist v audience dynamic is a western delusion of what music really is.

In it's current form, Music has come to mean to me as a way to keep rich kids out of doing worse things to the world.

But honestly theres a useful contradiction there im realizing, like you being involved in the scene is what makes it interesting to these people and just existing and attracting them to the spectacle of a living music scene is also important. In this way you are an ingredient to keeping rich kids out of being an absolute demon.

I guess that's true for all the arts too though

[–] Yor@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I know this is selfish but I'm feeling kinda depressed with the mass adoption of Ozempic. I lost a lot of weight through diet and exercise the past 2 years. Then, they come out with a relatively harmless and easy solution to my problem the second I get to where I wanted to be. I don't even get to have a nice story of willpower because everyone who knows me thinks I just got on Ozempic. Rather than improving myself, I spent 2 years and tons of willpower to be part of a new normal.

It's like a weaver spending years building a hand-powered textile shop and then the fucking industrial revolution happens.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (7 children)
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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Filling out some chronic pain questionaire for a clinic or whatever that's like "do u have trouble sleepin y/n" "do u have trouble focusing y/n" and not finding a box that says "yes ma'am I have much autism"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Peter Falk can canonically sense angels. Peak Italian.

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Feeling super lonely and isolated rn.

Havent been sleeping well, feels like no friends, my best friend/partner is out of town and im stressed from work

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

forgive me I have sinned by opening hinge again

luckily I matched with someone surprisingly quickly whom I'll go out with when I return from my travels in a week or so

I promise no more dating apps until the next time I break that promise

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Hunter Biden and Hunter Schafer should do a reality TV show where they wander around america doing adventures and shit

They could call it Hunter X Hunter

[–] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone know how to crack and mod minecraft?

The account I migrated my mojang account to got fucking deleted by Microsoft for inaction and now I don't own minecraft apparently.

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Noticing all the fast food chains now offering a $5 meal, i really dont get the logic behind it

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[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

uh-oh they just delayed biden's big boy press conference by half an hour

biden-fall

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

my doggy doesnt like it when i leave her alone for so long and now she wants to sleep in my room all the time. i get home from work around 1:30 am and she wants to get up at 5 am. so my sleep schedule has not been fun

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Every morning I wake up and gaze at horrors beyond comprehension and then scroll.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Reading some theory and a lot of theorists need to be reminded that theory is a model of the world based on the available evidence, not a cage made from the words of dead men. So many people are still drowning in the shit and mud of cold war ideologies, or even still fighting the battles of the 1910s and 20s. The way people still have personal affection for dead revolutionaries and get mad about them like they're your favorite boy band is ridiculous. The ghost of Stalin is the most prominent one, people act like he personally shot their dog and is going to jump out of hte closet and yell "BOO!" any second. We're still calling ourselves Leninists and Trotskyists when those guys have been dead for decades and their revolutions ultimately failed. We should be using the theory of those ages as a basis for analyzing the present, and instead many theorists are just circle jerking over who was the meanest leftist.

I'm probably just disconnected from shit happening on the ground in languages I'll never learn to speak or read, but over in the Anglosphere it really feels like the tradition of all dead generations weigh like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

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[–] vertexarray@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

user block jubilee morello-shred

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wetting my underwear every night before bed has really helped keep the heat at bay. My shirt, too.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DEI has gone too far, stop putting so many white people in movies about ancient egypt yells-at-cloud

anyone watch Gods of Egypt? beyond the white people i was actually sort of impressed. all the 'god' characters are like, Big, there's a lot of size gimmicks and i always think those are fun. also they really show a flat earth in a compelling way like from space(?) i don't think i've seen that before, neat. but on the other hand the rivalry of horus and set involves no cum in this telling which is nearly disqualifying

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tbh it wouldn't really matter who my opponent was in a dickriding competition. If they're entering they're probably pretty skilled regardless.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

It takes a certain amount of confidence just to step up and put yourself in to the race, and i respect that.

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Black Eyed Peas could sing us a song but chick peas could only hummus one.

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[–] Mousy@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't expecting the last few volumes of the public safety saga of chainsaw man to hit me like a god damn truck. kitty-cri-texas

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The true purpose of music is to keep rich kids out of making the world worse, please see Stewart Copeland and his father and the Strokes. Omfg

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

New phone. I need to reteach the keyboard how to ducking swear.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Bad thing happened to me that was completely my own fault but.... I lived cat-vibing

Maybe I make post about it

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