Although I have not accessed a contemporary English translation of this extract, on the face of it, Hegel’s opinion of this ancient Chinese ‘wisdom’ text, seems to be both succinct and precise.
Category: Leftwing Political Analysis
Marxist-Leninist (Maoist) analysis and assessment! Communism will win!
The Eurocentric Racism Aimed at Miss Helsinki (2017)
Although I am not interested in women being treated like slabs of meat (as if ‘looking’ a certain way constitutes an achievement in the real world), I support Sephora’s right to live in Finland and to participate ‘equally’ in all Finnish cultural activities.
Red Cross Deployed to Replace NHS Service in the UK (2017)
The British Medical Association (BMA) never supported the ‘Socialist’ NHS at its inception in 1948, and continue not to support it today.
USSR: Pregnant Women Receive Midwifery Care (1970) – Из серии «Рождение человека». 1970 год. Фото: Сергей Васильев
Midwifery care in the USSR.
The USSR and Homosexuality Part III (RSFSR Article 154a)
This legislation appears to have been interpreted as a protection against male on male rape, and not an attack upon homosexuality in general. This stance appears to be vindicated by the fact that the Soviet Government (in 1926), invited the German Magnus Hirschfeld – the famous gay emancipator and founder of the World League of Sexual Reform – to witness first-hand the tolerance toward homosexuality in Revolutionary Russia. As a result, during the 1928 Copenhagen Congress of the Institute for the Science of Sexuality, the League stated that the Soviet Union was a model of tolerance for sexual diversity. When Hitler came to power, however, these progressive institutes were attacked and destroyed.
Midwifery in the Soviet Union (1917-1991)
On December 28th, 1917, just weeks after the October Revolution, the People’s Commissariat of Public Charity was formed as a department tasked with the protection of infants.