(Translation and Research by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: The English name ‘Port Arthur’ dates to 1860 and was the consequence of the Second Opium
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(Translation and Research by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: The English name ‘Port Arthur’ dates to 1860 and was the consequence of the Second Opium
‘Humanism’ in our day, when the bourgeoisie is organizing fascism, itself ejects its own humanism as a worn-out mask that no longer covers the face of a predatory beast – it expels it because humanism is now perceived as one of the reasons for splitting and rotting. The facts mentioned above suggest that every time sensitive people are alarmed by the spectacle of the abominations in this world, they preach to humanity through a naïve desire to soften these abominations or cover them with eloquence – these are the masters of life, or shopkeepers- who allow this sermon only as an attempt to reassure people irritated by poverty, lack of rights, oppression and other inevitable results of the world ‘cultural’ activities preferred by the shopkeepers. As soon as this irritation of the working masses took on social-revolutionary forms, the bourgeoisie responded to this ‘(progressive) action with (regressive) reaction’.
‘…Kiev had a peculiar mentality. Only some twenty years before it had been occupied in quick succession by the Germans and Austrian armies, who had put up a puppet ruler, Hetman Skoropadsky, at the head of the Ukrainian “state”, by Ukrainian nationalists under Petlura, by Reds, Whites and Reds again and, for a short time, in 1920, even by Pilsudski’s Poles. Older people may have remembered that the German-Austrian occupation of 1918 had not been as terrible as all that.’
In 2017, cadets of the Ukrainian Military Academy attended a special ceremony at a war cemetery, to pay tribute to the Nazi German SS Divisions
‘Sun Yat-Sen is a revolutionary democrat. The East has finally struck the path of the West… new hundred and hundreds of millions of people will henceforth take part in the struggle for the ideals which the West has worked out.’ (Lenin: 1912)
Mei-An’s school was hosting a ‘Victorian Era’ (1831-1901) dressing-up day for Year 2. Many went as milkmaids and chimney sweeps, etc, (with some dressing as