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  • Notice the time lag between the events of 1936 and the realization that the Soviets were “wag[ing] a war against the Anarchists.”

    That’s not correct. If the Comintern Parties[1] and their comissaries were waging a war into the anti-fascist forces, were against other communists: mostly against the POUM and troskist.

    The POUM (Partit Obrer d’unificació Marxista / Workers Party of Marxist Unification), the group where George Orwell joined, was a non-troskist Marxist-Leninist Party, which wanted to do the revolution at the same time as overcoming fascism, i.e. the same strategy that the anarchists of the FAI (Federació Anarquista Ibèrica / Iberian Anarchist Federation) and CNT (Confederació Nacional del Treball / National Confederation of Labor).

    The POUM was banned (accused of collaboration with fascism) and its leader Andreu Nin disappeared.  Until the 90s, with the declassification of KGB documentation, it was not known what had happened to him: he was detained, tortured and murdered by the NKVD without having ‘confessed’ to any crime.

    I do not deny that there was persecution against anarchists, but I do deny the degree of animosity towards them that anarchist historiography often presents. The greatest ideological “danger” of the Comintern, those against whom they showed the greatest animosity within the anti-fascist bloc, were not the anarchists, nor the majority socialist party, nor the petty-bourgeois parties… they were other communists who do not share their positions.


    1. PCE (Partit Comunista d’Espanya / Communist Party of Spain) and PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya / Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia). ↩︎








  • This article is a not sense. There is not a monopoly of identity: a lot of corporations and big tech have an ID about us or, at least, about me.

    Also, in my case, the state have paid most of my education, my healthcare, the street where I live… nor google not other big tech have paid a dime for it.

    The critic in the article has his points, but the proposed solution—using capitalist enterprises to issue IDs—is nonsense. We will lose track of people from a fiscal point of view, and it will not solve the problem of the people that not any corporation would issue an ID.












  • I think that this question from my non bot account has not reached you:

    @carlesmu@lemmygrad.ml wrote:

    Thanks for the wrapper :)

    Two questions:

    1. Where can I find the relation between languages and the languages_id ints?

    2. When I log in into a lemmy instance I check the protected member _requestor.nodeinfo to detect if the problem it’s the connection or the user/password:

       lemmy = Lemmy(instance)
      
       if not lemmy.log_in(user, password):
           if not lemmy._requestor.nodeinfo:
               raise LemmyException(f"Sorry, cannot connect to lemmy instance {instance}.")
           raise LemmyException(
               f"Sorry, cannot login {user} into {instance}. Bad user or wrong password."
           )
      

      There is a better way to validate it?