The about section explains it. There used to be a forum called the Whiskey Bar where geopolitics was discussed. The forum’s admin gave up and closed down, but many of the users followed ‘b’ over to his new blog.
It’s an old song they are quoting, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Alabama Song’.
The name of the original Whiskey Bar was taken from Bertolt Brecht's Alabama Song where the first line goes:
"Show me the way to the next whiskey bar".
The name Moon of Alabama was taken from the first line of the chorus of that song:
"Oh, moon of Alabama ...".
The design of this site has been directly stolen or re-engineered from the Whiskey Bar site.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a Marxist playwright and songwriter from the GDR, which explains the German communist connection.
In addition, Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.
Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.
And before anyone accuses them of Noble Savage tropes - the more defensible examples of these films depict Native Americans as civilized and complex, and depict the Cowboy/settlers as the savages. They may be slightly guilty of orientalism or something similar, but this predates western noble savage ideology which is mostly just a way for whites to assuage their own guilt while the Soviets quite explicitly showed the massacres and genocides of the whites and often imagined a world where history went differently and was more optimistic - whereas I feel white noble savage tropes are meant to make the native genocide feel inevitable
Why did a German communist name his blog after a random Native American tribe?
The about section explains it. There used to be a forum called the Whiskey Bar where geopolitics was discussed. The forum’s admin gave up and closed down, but many of the users followed ‘b’ over to his new blog.
It’s an old song they are quoting, Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Alabama Song’.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a Marxist playwright and songwriter from the GDR, which explains the German communist connection.
In addition, Soviet states also had a sort of fascination and admiration with American natives, they even created a genre of western films called Osterns that inverted the Cowboy-Indian dichotomy and glorified Native Americans above the settlers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern
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And before anyone accuses them of Noble Savage tropes - the more defensible examples of these films depict Native Americans as civilized and complex, and depict the Cowboy/settlers as the savages. They may be slightly guilty of orientalism or something similar, but this predates western noble savage ideology which is mostly just a way for whites to assuage their own guilt while the Soviets quite explicitly showed the massacres and genocides of the whites and often imagined a world where history went differently and was more optimistic - whereas I feel white noble savage tropes are meant to make the native genocide feel inevitable