The October Revolution (Part 1) - Matthew Raphael Johnson
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson presents part one of a two part series on the mechanics of the Bolshevik takeover of power in the October revolution in 1917.
In February, the Tsar was overthrown in a military coup – he never “resigned” – but this was only a pretext. The Provisional Government, the “Whites,” were weak, divided and incoherent. Because of the connections Trotsky and others had made with New York bankers, especially the Schiff clan, the Bolshevik faction, relatively small in February of 1917, had grown many times its original size in October.
How a tiny, unpopular party grew from a few hundred in February to 400,000 in October is something that requires a substantial answer. The reason is German assistance, the emptying of the prisons, the use of German POWs as infantry, mercenaries from abroad and, most of all, the influx of huge sums of money from Jewish bankers in New York.
In the short period of time between February and October, more than 40 Red newspapers sprang up all over the country that outclassed their rivals in production quality. Finally, the abortive coup of Gen. Kornilov to end the chaos of Kerensky's regime (some say set up by Kerensky himself) destroyed what was left of army discipline, and the small but powerful Red battalions swept into the unguarded Petrograd center.
Synthwave tribute to the German soldiers of WWI made in the same style as 'that' video.
Music: Perturbator - Behemoth
A little history: Neither Germany nor Kaiser Wilhelm II were the villains of the War, contrary to propaganda to the contrary. The Kaiser was a rather tragic figure, both King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were his cousins and felt personally betrayed that they allied against him. He was very pious, adored his grandmother, Queen Victoria, and very much believed in nationalism and the Divine Right of Kings.
After he was deposed at the end of WWI, he lived out the rest of his life in exile in the Netherlands, despising all the governments that came to power in Germany thereafter.
An older video of Fr. Mathew Raphael Johnson analysing Venezuela under Hugo Chavez when he was still alive, and Syria under Assad.
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Dr. Johnson's website is https://www.rusjournal.org
You can listen to his show on: https://www.radioalbion.com/2020/10/the-orthodox-nationalist-archive.html
A critique of capitalism from Fr. Matthew Raphael Johnson. Here is the description on his podcast:
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Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson explains why free trade is not really free and how the constitution only serves to protect the State and not the people it is supposed to represent.
Capitalism and free trade were creations of the state. In the 19th century it was the state that paid for the building of canals, the establishment of a merchant fleet and the erection of the first centralized rail system. Acres of land, once belonging to the peasants, were given to the oligarchs for free. Markets had nothing to do with it. Empires created industry, not the other way around.
Free trade is the foundational ideology of modernity. It is a mindset, a cosmopolitan, faux-intellectual understanding of the world that reduces everything to money and plastic prestige. It’s laws and institutions are as fluid as its currency values. They are illusions. This is based not on production, not on gold, but on the creation of images and fantasies that are then taken by the public as real. Thus, modernism is the result of the hypnotic trance.
When the power in a society is private, the “Constitution” is irrelevant, since it only governs state actions. Yet, the state is now merely a tool of capital. Having secured fictitious personhood, capital's totalitarian control over the western world is protected by the state and globalist entities created by these same elites. The fraud of free trade then, comes down to the fact that governments and international bodies are privatized entities and corporations, protected by the Constitution, and rule without limit. It is all based upon illusion.
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His website is https://www.rusjournal.org
You can listen to his show on: https://www.radioalbion.com/2020/10/the-orthodox-nationalist-archive.html
The first video of Fr. Johnson's that I saw. In this one he defends the system of monarchy, with emphasis on the Russian monarchy which is his area of study.
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Dr. Johnson's website is https://www.rusjournal.org
You can listen to his show on: https://www.radioalbion.com/2020/10/the-orthodox-nationalist-archive.html
Fuck it, one struggle.
Song is by Carlos Puebla, a musician very dedicated to the Cuban Revolution. I believe he wrote this as a thank you for Spain's trade to Cuba in disobedience of the U.S.'s trade embargo.