Thanks for the post, which I have translated back into German. As aggression towards the outside world increases, state repression at home grows. This law is as certain as death and taxes in this pig system...
This year, many people in Germany and German-speaking countries are commemorating the bloody suppression of the peasants in the Peasants' Wars 500 years ago, when they wanted a kingdom of heaven on earth instead of empty promises of salvation for the day of St. Never. It is noticeable that even state authorities cannot avoid organizing commemorations on a moderate scale. In doing so, the revolutionary spirit of the struggles of that time is robbed of its meaning by denouncing the “unbridled and radical violence” of a few groups of peasants and reducing it to a “struggle for democracy.”
I think it is precisely for this reason that it is right and important to remember the prisoners and to speak their names. In German history, it took until at least 1848 after the suppression of the peasants for tentative revolutionary attempts to stir again. However, these have not been consistent to this day, so that Lenin already mocked: “German revolutionaries only occupy a train station after buying a platform ticket.”
I love this. We need to recognize our many, beautiful, secular rituals.
Hi, not relevant to this article but I didn't know if you had seen this write-up of your recent book by Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/18/anarcho-cryptid/
Beautiful article! I have no idea if Ryan knows who you are but I'm definitely gonna tell him you shouted him out in my next letter.
Thanks for the post, which I have translated back into German. As aggression towards the outside world increases, state repression at home grows. This law is as certain as death and taxes in this pig system...
This year, many people in Germany and German-speaking countries are commemorating the bloody suppression of the peasants in the Peasants' Wars 500 years ago, when they wanted a kingdom of heaven on earth instead of empty promises of salvation for the day of St. Never. It is noticeable that even state authorities cannot avoid organizing commemorations on a moderate scale. In doing so, the revolutionary spirit of the struggles of that time is robbed of its meaning by denouncing the “unbridled and radical violence” of a few groups of peasants and reducing it to a “struggle for democracy.”
I think it is precisely for this reason that it is right and important to remember the prisoners and to speak their names. In German history, it took until at least 1848 after the suppression of the peasants for tentative revolutionary attempts to stir again. However, these have not been consistent to this day, so that Lenin already mocked: “German revolutionaries only occupy a train station after buying a platform ticket.”
There is some truth in that...
Anyway, here is the translation: https://www.trueten.de/archives/13732-Die-Entscheidung,-nicht-zu-sterben-Ein-Ritual-fuer-Michael-Kimble-oder-Ich-war-letzten-Freitag-auf-einer-coolen-Show.html