Eugen Leviné, born on this day in 1883, was a German revolutionary communist who briefly led the Bavarian Council Republic, formed during the German Revolution, and was executed for his role in it after the Republic fell in 1919.
Eugen Levine was born to wealthy Jewish parents in St Petersberg, Russia, and became exposed to radical politics after moving to Heidelberg, Germany at a young age. In 1905, Leviné returned to Russia to participate in the failed revolution of 1905 against the Tsar and was arrested and exiled to Siberia.
After World War I ended, Leviné joined the Communist Party of Germany and helped to create a socialist republic in Bavaria. Leviné eventually rose to power as the communists assumed control of the government.
He attempted to pass many reforms, such as giving the more luxurious flats to the homeless and giving workers control and ownership of factories. Leviné also planned reforms for the education system and to abolish paper money, but did not get the chance to complete either.
The German Army, assisted by the right-wing Freikorps paramilitary invaded and quickly conquered Munich on May 3rd, 1919. Leviné himself was arrested and shot by firing squad in Stadelheim Prison.
Ex-Soviet agent Whitaker Chambers cited Leviné as an inspirational figure, writing "During the Bavarian Council Republic in 1919, Leviné was the organiser of the Workers' and Soldiers' Soviets. When the Bavarian Council Republic was crushed, Leviné was captured and court-martialed. The court-martial told him: "You are under sentence of death." Leviné answered: 'We Communists are always under sentence of death.'"
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i am the one who knocks fools because they deserve what they have coming and they're bad and I am better than them. :pepsi:
Hakim is the only person in all of Iraq who has said the sentence "I told you you couldn't handle they/them pussy"
holy shit Israeli soldiers just shot a journalist in the fucking head and killed her (cw)
https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1524244240242466816
Tales from Suburbia:
My neighbor is a black sheriff in our county. We happened to be talking about policing and he mentioned that if any officer was caught with any BLM insignia or showing any sign of support, they would be terminated immediately. He also mentioned he saved someones life from being beaten by another officer (as he called it, a george floyd moment) and got reprimanded for it. He's thinking of leaving the force, so that's good.
Once is coincidence. Twice is bad luck. Three times is enemy action.
got my lib professor to say 'nice point on the us hypocrisy' in the feedback to my essay
Got a lib prof to admit the CIA is the main reason polio isn't eliminated in the wild :rat-salute:
AND he said he'll include resources about that in the PowerPoint from now on
Essays are this perfect and awful middle ground where liberals actually consider listening for a second
People turning on each other when times get hard is my least favorite trope. It shows up in tons of acclaimed Sci-Fi and is so clearly opposite of what happens in real life, and it just reeks of individualism.
with all the shit this community gets its ran better than like, at least 70% of the leftist communities ive participated in before. so good for that?
gonna be honest here for a sec 😬 I don't think yall really understand something really important. like, it's not my job to educate you, but imma give you this one as a friendly tip, maybe listen up ok?
serious talk
you can use MULTIPLE slurp juices on a SINGLE ape. so like, if you only have one ape but three slurp juices? YOU CAN USE ALL THREE ON ONE ASTRO APE creating 3 ENTIRE NEW apes. like this is important stuff, and nobody is talking about it
Is it me or is google search becoming unusable? The results are only littered with e-commerce sites. Maybe that's an idea for a project, a search engine with the option to exclude webshops.
My rent is going up by $80 and they're doubling my water/sewer bill. FUCK this apartment, goddamn do I hate landlords. The worst part is that I rent from a megacorp that owns a dozen apartment buildings, so I can never track down the person responsible for this shit to yell at them. it's always some poor lackey they hire to staff the leasing office that I have to deal with
This sounds productive, I'll probably start reaching out to my neighbors about it
So I lost my copy of Kirby Super Star Ultra, yeah? So I figure I'll just buy a second hand copy off ebay, DS games can't be that expensive, right?
People want $150 fucking dollars for a USED DS GAME
Time to learn how to get DS roms on my jailbroken 3DS, I guess.
Fuck nerds that collect shit to make profit. I just wanna grill, man.