cars posted:

TIL archduke ferdinand owned a ballistic vest made of layered silk, standard issue for european vips after the same armor apparently protected alfonso XIII's carriage when an anarchist threw a bomb at his wedding procession in 1906, and it's likely it would have stopped princip's bullet, but ferdinand wasn't wearing it the day he was shot

normal brain: the assassination of the archduke was not the cause of WW1, but the spark that lit the underlying contradictions of imperialist competition
glowing brain: the archdukes death directly caused WW1
exploding brain: gavrilo princep killed hundreds of millions, more evil than hitler

slipdisco posted:

'the shenanigans of french philosophers'

After the events of May ’68, Paris-VIII, also known as Vincennes, was created to be a refuge for radical students. A committee of 20 peoples that included Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes set out to model Vincennes after MIT. Michel Foucault was named the head of the philosophy department. While Deleuze could not initially work at Vincennes, he later joined a staff that was comprised of Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciere, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Judith Miller.
In a department filled with radicals and communists, students tore open ceilings to see “if the police had bugged the rooms” and matters of administration were often seen as fascist coups. Department members invited friends to teach classes, many of whom would not even show up for class.
When Ranciere and Badiou decided that “not showing up” was pretty good grounds to fire these teachers, the victims immediately declared it “a Bolshevik coup and alerted Deleuze and Lyotard, who saw it as the start of a witch hunt. ‘They organized a sort of hunger strike in Deleuze’s seminar.'”
Judith Miller openly declared “certain collective have decided not to grade students on the basis of written workers, others have decided to give a diploma to anyone who thinks they deserve one.” The French government swiftly declared that the Vincennes philosophy department could no longer award national diplomas.

Badiou declared Deleuze an “enemy of the people” and penned several anti-Deleuze articles. At the height of the conflict, Badiou's “men” would prevent Deleuze from finishing his seminar, he would put his hat back on to his head to indicate surrender. Badiou himself would occasionally turn up at Deleuze’s seminar to interrupt him, as he admits in the book he wrote on Deleuze in 1997.
Badiou created brigades to “monitor the political content of other classes in the philosophy department.” Deleuze responded to most interventions calmly, and would avoid conflict even when “groups of up to a dozen people bent on picking a fight would show up.”
Sometimes these brigades would show up with copies of Nietzsche to ask trick questions in an effort to embarrass Deleuze. And when that didn’t work:

Often the “brigade” would end up imposing the “Peoples Rule,” commanding the student to quit Deleuze’s classroom on the pretext of a meeting in Lecture Hall 1 or a rally in support of a workers’ struggle. Deleuze reacted calmly, pretending to agree with them and retaliating with irony.

And when that also didn’t work:

Only once did get angry, when he found on his desk a tract by a “death squad” advocating suicide.”

I would love the source of this.

Parenti posted:

I would love the source of this.

looks like this http://www.critical-theory.com/deleuze-guattari-biography/

excerpt is from part 3

Finally, we’re seeing the end of the old truism that the U.S. was either psychologically or economically so strong that it could easily take on the burdens of global leadership — taking trade hits for newly ascendant capitalist nations that ignored trade rules, subsidizing the Continental defense of an affluent Europe, rubber-stamping international institutions on the premise that they adhered to Western liberalism and tolerance, and opening its borders either to assuage guilt or to recalibrate a supposedly culpable demography.

shriekingviolet posted:

wait the search function does something other than allowing goatstein to shut down the site at his leisure ??

ive never used the search function to ddos the site. remove thine slander posthaste

In general the "over representation" of Jews is both overstated, and to the degree that it exists, is caused by historical circumstances - wealth as a determinate of who escaped the Holocaust, and the political role of Zionism since WWII.

Definitely, it's always over-stated, and 99% of the time it's anti-communist propaganda wrapped up in the Judeo-Bolshevik myth. You'll see people constantly promoting figures purporting that Jews were "85% of the first Soviet government" (Trotsky was the only ethnic Jew in the first government), or that Jews were a third of the Communist Party of Russia (in fact, ethnic Russians were "over-represented," and ethnic Jews were about 5% of the party, a few times more than their proportion of the general population, which is no surprise given that they were the member of an oppressed minority population that was periodically slaughtered; whatever could have attracted such a people to a revolutionary movement?).