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"Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organised pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital. Hatred towards the Jews persists only in those countries where slavery to the landowners and capitalists has created abysmal ignorance among the workers and peasants. Only the most ignorant and downtrodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews. This is a survival of ancient feudal times, when the priests burned heretics at the stake, when the peasants lived in slavery, and when the people were crushed and inarticulate. This ancient, feudal ignorance is passing away; the eyes of the people are being opened.

It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. Those who do not work are kept in power by the power and strength of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob and disunite the workers.

Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.

Long live the fraternal trust and fighting alliance of the workers of all nations in the struggle to overthrow capital." - V. I. Lenin, Anti-Jewish Pogroms

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Etta Federn was bornon April 28th 1883 in Vienna, the youngest daughter of an assimilated Jewish family. She was the daughter of the suffragette Ernestine Federn and the doctor Salomon Federn and the sister of Paul, who became an analyst, Karl, who became a lawyer and writer, and Walter who became a journalist.

She had an education on an equal footing with her brothers. She studied literary history, German and Greek literature. After graduation she began to study German and philosophy. In addition, she received a broad education in foreign languages.

She broke with her family and moved to Berlin, where she completed her studies with a thesis on Faust. She earned her living there first as a teacher and then as a translator from English, French, Danish, Russian and Yiddish. She translated Alexandra Kollontai, Hans Christian Anderson and Shakespeare.

She worked as a literary critic for the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt. She published many biographies including those of Dante and Goethe. At the same time she began to write essays, biographies, autobiographical, stories, a play and poems. She married twice, both marriages ending in separation.

She made contact with the anarchist movement in Berlin and began to participate in the activities of the German anarcho-syndicalist union the FAUD (Free Workers' Union of Germany - Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschlands), contributing articles to its press on a regular basis. She began to make many friends within this movement.

The anarchist movement in Berlin attracted in Etta’s own words many “self-motivated Jewish women who offered their intellectual, emotional and political support to the ideas of social revolution, free education, the importance of cultural work, women’s emancipation and the importance of solidarity and responsible behaviour”.

She met Emma Goldman, Mollie Steimer, and Sonia Flechin, among others. In particular, she maintained a close friendship with Rudolf Rocker and Milly Witkop for life. She took an active part in the women’s organisation founded by the FAUD, the Syndikalistischen Frauenbund -Syndicalist Women’s Organisation (SFB).

She received death threats from the Nazis as a result of her biography of the liberal politician Walter Rathenau, murdered by right wing officers, which was published in 1927. In addition the forces of reaction put pressure on the newspapers and publishing houses she usually wrote for, so that her sources of income began to dry up.

She left Germany for Barcelona in 1932, at the age of 49 with her two sons. In 1933 her books were amongst those destroyed during the Nazi public book burnings and she was placed on the Nazi blacklist.

In Barcelona she received continuing support from the anarchist circles still in Berlin, and in turn she was able to welcome those fleeing to Berlin later. She was able to adapt quickly to Barcelona, writing articles for the Spanish press within weeks and starting to learn Catalan. However, she remained financially straitened, and had to rely on small but regular transfers of money from her close relatives in the USA.

During the Spanish revolution she joined Mujeres Libres (Free Women), the anarchist women’s movement, in July 1936. She taught literature, language and education at the cultural centre set up by Mujeres Libres, the House of the Woman Worker, was based on the teachings of the Spanish libertarian educationalist, Francisco Ferrer.

Later , in 1937, she founded, in collaboration with Mujeres Libres, four libertarian schools in the Catalan city of Blanes. These schools, of which she was the director, trained teachers as well as teaching children. They were co-educational, with an orientation towards atheism and antimilitarism, and designed to have an anxiety free, stimulating and caring atmosphere for children.

In May 1937 she returned to Barcelona and had her book Mujeres de las Revoluciones , which included biographical sketches of twelve famous women, published by Mujeres Libres.

In 1938, because of the massive bombing raids on Barcelona she left for Paris with her two sons.

Between 1940-1945 she moved to Lyons. She was by now completely exhausted physically and sometimes seriously ill. Despite this, she engaged in resistance work through translations, propaganda work and organisation.

Her oldest son Hans died in 1944 in the fighting at Vercors. Paradoxically it was because of this that she became entitled to French nationality and a small monthly pension, although she remained in poverty until her death in Paris ion May 9th, 1951.

She features as a literary personality in a novel of the Swedish anarchist writer Stig Dagerman (who had married the German anarchist Annemarie Goetze) Skuggen av Mart (Stockholm 1947) and in Utan Vaiaktig stad (Stockholm 1948) the novel of another Swedish writer, Arne Fosberg.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

I made homemade pasta sauce for the first time and it really good along with spaghetti. I also made garlic bread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Damn it looks sooooo satisfying when kitties gnaw on their nails when they groom themselves, I want to be a cat

I DO NOT want to do this as a human btw ew

[–] [email protected] 4 points 35 minutes ago

{Meeoow|Same}

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Is archive.is down?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Me remembering why I give up on building a pc every time I want to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm blue prince posting

I'm on day 70 and I still haven't connected the pump room or the laundry to a power source, I even upgraded my aquarium to be another power source like 25 days ago wojak-nooo

Had a day where I had 300 coins and the casino with 5 extra spins unlocked and my game crashed. So close to buying the blue tent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Both Mets announcers today just referred to Taiwan as China. Gary was talking about a starter pitching in China, although he "corrected" himself right after. Then Daniel Murphy followed and referred to it as China again. Based Maoist Mets boothcostanza-maoist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Got so many new animes to watch! 😃 gqux, zatsutabi, rock yuri, cinderella gray, anne shirley, apocalypse hotel, one upon a witch's death, mono. And lazarus ig.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Mitski Stan Dubya be like

The land is inhospitable, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

ok i just hand fed a chipmunk and it was so sweet i'm so happy cri

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

The actor who plays Bobby in Twin Peaks was definitely cast on the strength of his Are-You-Fucking-Kidding-Me face

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

what the fuck is the point of sea of thieves

hey press this button and you get to feel fucking awful and angry and powerless

seriously bro press this button and strangers will fuck with you and you'll have no power to do anything back to them

give me your money and I'll give you a button that lets people troll you and waste your time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

interviewing for an intermediate PHP webDev job tomorrow(I currently do C# webDev rest of the stack is similar), haven't really done PHP since uni, been just doping same general revising but does anyone have any good ideas on specific they'll ask? or where to post to get good answers on this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In a protracted war with this company that keeps reposting this job on every board and ghosting me about it. Motherfucker I've been unemployed for years, I got nothing but time to dedicate to the cause. I only need to get lucky once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It might not be a real listing. I know at least indeed has copied listings from company websites/other job boards to appear more active but applying through it just sends your application into the void.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Kafka on the Shore is incredible. It has me relating to some sort of Colonel Sanders spirit introject

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

My water filter stopped working like a month ago, and the chinese OEM sent me a replacement for free. I guess it managed to be on the last shipment before boats stopped arriving at the ports cuz I got it today - and it's a better model than the one I initially bought. I wonder if it was so easy to get my replacement because most people don't bother checking the warranties on Amazon purchases?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I hate slrpnk.net and the Hexbear/.ml bouble for supporting Terrorism and reproduction of fake news.

Man i wonder what instance is going to join us in the tankie troika, i thought it was going to be MWS when their admin said dems are pro genocide and libs got really angry but lately libs have been attacking blahaj and and slrpnk too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Lemmy.eco.br prolly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

join us in the tankie troika

in true leftist fashion, they won't be joining us, they'll be forming their own bubbles and splits instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Just started reading settlers and it's really feeding into my recently founded pessimism of the "working class" in Amerika

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ffffuck, I'm reminded of how bad Pokemon gamplay actually was. The bad accuracy on the most common moves, the random failure chances, confusion proccing three times in a row. Even with some great counters to Whitney, RNG made sure Milktank would still ruin my day. Just gonna beat this boss, catch Sudowoodo, then go back to playing good games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Gen1 had 1/256 chance to miss on even 100% accuracy moves and hyper beam didn't have to recharge on a KO lol, gen2 is downright polished by comparison

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Sleep Mechanics alone make me hate Gen 1. Gen 5 finally ironed out the kinks, the insane powercreep notwithstanding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

And 3 write in votes for “I hope all the candidates have a nice day :)”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Took my dog out for a walk again today. There was a much bigger dog that seemed to scare him, but he's only a puppy at the moment - hopefully he'll get a bit braver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Aww.

My dog is that dog. She's a sweetie but for some reason you put a leash on her and her whole personality changes, I gotta control her whenever I pass by another dog. Hope yours is doing well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

It's a bit in Umineko, basically the main character is named Battler and has that as their kanji name. The other characters have a similar name scheme, so I’m wondering how much license that affords me if I want to link original names to kanji

Oh, got it. Yeah, that's a pretty common thing in Japanese media. I see it a lot for techniques in manga where the kanji will have an English (in katakana) reading next to it to make it more "exotic".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Thanks! The reason I ask specifically is because it's noted in the story that the names are eccentrically-written and glommed onto English due to a naming tradition, so I was wondering to what degree of arcane-ness is it for the script. Like, is it like naming your kid Keighleigh or is it like writing your kid's name without vowels on the birth certificate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

1% spawn on Yanma, the stats on Ledian? Once more complaining on how much Gen 2 Pokemon seemed to hate the Gen 2 Pokemon.

Still, I love the mazes and dungeons. GSC really rewarded doubling back and exploring old places with new HM's. Natu was honestly a great reward in that respect.

Also TIL that Silver and Gold don't just give you a free baby Pokemon egg. I've beaten Gold before, but I've replayed Crystal so many times as a kid and an adult that it just never dawned on me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is it corny to suggest that the answer to postmodern apathy when confronted with the horrors of genocide is to be guided by love? I mean, yeah revolution and all that, but something that I can communicate to libs who might be shaken in their inaction very briefly. Maybe it just confirms what they already vaguely believe?

I'm thinking about films that connect to that theme, too. I was considering how a lot of solidarity films can communicate why revolutionaries give up their lives and fight so earnestly, and how it all ties to a feeling of great love. I'm thinking of Battle of Algiers, First Reformed, and kinda strangely The Handmaiden (take it in its colonial context and pair it with a Marxist feminist reading to maybe see my point).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Am I going to the lecture about AI in research or the one by a surgeon describing his experiences doing surgery with fishing wire and a drill he had to have a nurse collect at a hardware store, while doing international humanitarian work. 🤔

Why would they even double book this. What kind of turbo dork is going to the AI lecture which is probably identical to 60000 other AI lectures already given this year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Does anyone know if there’s any theory written about oppressed groups in the imperial core and creating a type of “parallel culture”?

With chuds, fascism being overwhelmingly embraced by the mainstream. I got the message loud and clear: I am not welcome in mainstream society.

I just want to fuck off to the city where I can be with my fellow weirdos in peace but no one is hiring anymore so I can never leave and living in the sticks with people who want me dead if they knew anything about me is fucking unbearable.

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