[Editor comment: If anyone who reads this website is aware of a totalitarian dystopian novel of the future other than the big three, Brave New World, 1984, and Farenheight 451, please keep it to yourself. If you mention it, its nearly guaranteed that some European government will use it as a model for the perfect society.]
An original translation by Tania Groth with much thanks
From this Swedish news site:
Published July 11, 2017 at 14.42
The journalist Janne Josefsson accuses Botkyrka municipality’s library of burning Astrid Lindgren’s earlier books for leftist ideological reasons. Now the municipality acknowledges that the books are being recycled because they contain “racism”, as written in a press release.
In “Summer in P1”, the journalist Janne Josefsson claimed that the municipality of Botkyrka is burning older editions of Pippi in the South Seas.
“When you burn books for ideological reasons, there’s something in me that says, ‘Wait a bit, do we really want these to disappear. Shouldn’t a few remain so that I can tell my child that what the views were at the time?’” says Josefsson to Expressen.
Now the municipality’s library admits that they have thrown the books away for recycling. This is because the books contain “racist” expressions.
“The libraries in the municipality of Botkyrka have culled editions of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi in the South Seas where there are obsolete expressions that can be perceived as racist, but Botkyrka Library have also bought the publisher’s new edition of the book from 2015 where the obsolete expressions have been replaced by more contemporary expressions,” the municipality writes in its press release.
“The culled specimens of Pippi in the South Seas have been discarded and handled according to the same routines as all other obsolete books,” they continue, and point out that discarded books are handled according to “regular recycling and waste management procedures”.
But Janne Josefsson does not buy that excuse. He tells Expressen that the difference is that Botkyrka discards the books for ideological reasons and because of an “intercultural policy”. According to Josefsson, the municipality is only trying to camouflage its behavior. He believes that the books should have remained and that the library could have discussed the books if they find the content so terrible.
[Editor: “Recycling” doesn’t seem nearly so awful as burning books like in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel. But recycling the books is really a small step from what is clearly coming. Recycling the authors, and then recycling the readers. After all, they do it in China. A country of who’s basic dictatorship, Justin Trudeau is in awe.]
It is only a matter of time before the left starts recycling the authors of books they dislike, I wonder how many leftist (socalled) journalists who are authors will make the recycle list?
………………………………………………Fuck mate , I was just about to quote from those 3 novels to.
“The Possessed” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chapter VIII. Ivan The Tsarevitch
Excerpt:
“Listen. We are going to make a revolution,” the other muttered rapidly, and almost in delirium. “You don’t believe we shall make a revolution? We are going to make such an upheaval that everything will be uprooted from its foundation. Karmazinov is right that there is nothing to lay hold of. Karmazinov is very intelligent. Another ten such groups in different parts of Russia — and I am safe.”
“Groups of fools like that?” broke reluctantly from Stavrogin.
“Oh, don’t be so clever, Stavrogin; don’t be so clever yourself. And you know you are by no means so intelligent that you need wish others to be. You are afraid, you have no faith. You are frightened at our doing things on such a scale. And why are they fools? They are not such fools. No one has a mind of his own nowadays. There are terribly few original minds nowadays. Virginsky is a pure-hearted man, ten times as pure as you or I; but never mind about him. Liputin is a rogue, but I know one point about him. Every rogue has some point in him. . . . Lyamshin is the only one who hasn’t, but he is in my hands. A few more groups, and I should have money and passports everywhere; so much at least. Suppose it were only that? And safe places, so that they can search as they like. They might uproot one group but they’d stick at the next. We’ll set things in a ferment. . . . Surely you don’t think that we two are not enough?”
“Take Shigalov, and let me alone. . . . ”
“Shigalov is a man of genius! Do you know he is a genius like Fourier, but bolder than Fourier; stronger. I’ll look after him. He’s discovered ‘equality ‘!”
“He is in a fever; he is raving; something very queer has happened to him,” thought Stavrogin, looking at him once more. Both walked on without stopping.
“He’s written a good thing in that manuscript,” Verhovensky went on. “He suggests a system of spying. Every member of the society spies on the others, and it’s his duty to inform against them. Every one belongs to all and all to every one. All are slaves and equal in their slavery. In extreme cases he advocates slander and murder, but the great thing about it is equality. To begin with, the level of education, science, and talents is lowered. A high level of education and science is only possible for great intellects, and they are not wanted. The great intellects have always seized the power and been despots. Great intellects cannot help being despots and they’ve always done more harm than good. They will be banished or put to death. Cicero will have his tongue cut out, Copernicus will have his eyes put out, Shakespeare will be stoned — that’s Shigalovism. Slaves are bound to be equal. There has never been either freedom or equality without despotism, but in the herd there is bound to be equality, and that’s Shigalovism! Ha ha ha! Do you think it strange? I am for Shigalovism.”
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72p/chapter13.html
“The Possessed” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chapter VIII. Ivan The Tsarevitch
Excerpts:
“Listen. First of all we’ll make an upheaval,” Verhovensky went on in desperate haste, continually clutching at Stavrogin’s left sleeve. “I’ve already told you. We shall penetrate to the peasantry. Do you know that we are tremendously powerful already? Our party does not consist only of those who commit murder and arson, fire off pistols in the traditional fashion, or bite colonels. They are only a hindrance. I don’t accept anything without discipline. I am a scoundrel, of course, and not a socialist. Ha ha! Listen. I’ve reckoned them all up: a teacher who laughs with children at their God and at their cradle; is on our side. The lawyer who defends an educated murderer because he is more cultured than his victims and could not, help murdering them to get money is one of us. The schoolboys who murder a peasant for the sake of sensation are ours. The juries who acquit every criminal are ours. The prosecutor who trembles at a trial for fear he should not seem advanced enough is ours, ours. Among officials and literary men we have lots, lots, and they don’t know it themselves. On the other hand, the docility of schoolboys and fools has reached an extreme pitch; the schoolmasters are bitter and bilious. On all sides we see vanity puffed up out of all proportion; brutal, monstrous appetites. . . . Do you know how many we shall catch by little, ready-made ideas? When I left Russia, Littre’s dictum that crime is insanity was all the rage; I come back and I find that crime is no longer insanity, but simply common sense, almost a duty; anyway, a gallant protest. ‘How can we expect a cultured man not to commit a murder, if he is in need of money.’ But these are only the first fruits. The Russian God has already been vanquished by cheap vodka. The peasants are drunk, the mothers are drunk, the children are drunk, the churches are empty, and in the peasant courts one hears, ‘Two hundred lashes or stand us a bucket of vodka.’ Oh, this generation has only to grow up. It’s only a pity we can’t afford to wait, or we might have let them get a .bit more tipsy! Ah, what a pity there’s no proletariat! But there will be, there will be; we are going that way . . . .”
“A scoundrel, a scoundrel! You are wondering what I am. I’ll tell you what I am directly, that’s what I am leading up to. It was not for nothing that I kissed your hand. But the people-must believe that we know what we are after, while the other side do nothing but ‘brandish their cudgels and beat their own followers.’ Ah, if we only had more time! That’s the only trouble, we have no time. We will proclaim destruction . . . .. Why is it, why is it that idea has such a fascination. But we must have a little exercise; we must. We’ll set fires going. . . . We’ll set legends going. Every scurvy ‘group’ will be of use. Out of those very groups I’ll pick you out fellows so keen they’ll not shrink from shooting, and be grateful for the honour of a job, too. Well, and there will be an upheaval! There’s going to be such an upset as the world has never seen before. . . . Russia will be overwhelmed with darkness, the earth will weep for its old gods…
“The Russian People ~ Sen Fulton J Sheen”
Video Sancto – Published on July 25, 2013
The Bishop has a better handle on Russians than those – oh so clever – analysts who talk about the enduring, essential commie-ness of Russia today.
The more thing to remember is that while communism was a German invention it was inspired by the French revolution, and the word communism came from the communards in the 1871 revolution in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communards
Both Marx and Engels thought that Russia would be one of the last nations to become Marxism/Socialism.
My Russki said communism became something for hoi polloi long before the free-for-all grab for state assets. All that ideological garbage he was taught in school, and even more during his army career was undermined by the reality of daily corruption.
China was horrid, much more “orthodox” discipline. Huge contrast. Every officer who went abroad was under constant surveillance, their families hostage at home. It resembled his parents’ experience of the USSR.
Top-echelon Party and KGB were living the good life in Russia and abroad for years before the official “collapse”. Privatization made them billionaires, life got even better.
There was a short-lived, brutal crack down on obscene corruption, then things calmed down. It was – and remains – precarious, subject to arbitrary power at the very top.
But that’s a familiar system and doesn’t feel especially onerous. If you mind your own business. Putin is a master showman; he’s very popular. Every hardship is blamed on some external enemy, the stories outrageous. His media has a mind-boggling budget.
The people are thrilled discovering religious roots. Though Russian Orthodoxy and even Judaism are well-funded, Evangelical missionaries are considered foreign, alien, and not welcome.
The “family values” revival seems to be bearing fruit -literally: ethnic Russian babies now exceed replacement rate! That’s celebrated everywhere. Except maybe not among “deviants”, those fallen into “decadent” Western practices.
Mosques are monitored. Underground mosques are routinely destroyed. “Terrorism” is broadly defined, and penalties are draconian. Families of terrorists pay damages, plus the costs of security forces. They’re ruined.
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My Russki laughed at the “Putin the Commie” stuff.
Putin wants to be CZAR. The Third Rome still resonates. Hagia Sofia isn’t within reach, but it’s still an object of lust.
An Islamic Western Europe looks probable from Russia’s vantage point. This terrifies everybody. Playing chicken with today’s NATO is a confidence-building sport.
Islamic NATO will be nuked, no question.
My Russki laughed at the “Putin the Commie” stuff.
I have repeatedly said that Putin wants to be Czar, and probably wants to set up an inherited monarchy.
In the gross forms and at time sin the details there isn’t much difference between an absolute Mnarchy with a small group of advisers and the governmental workings of the communist oligarchies. In both cases the property belongs to the Monarchs or their adviers (The Russian Princes and Nobles or the Nobles in Western Monarchies). Yes the Czars under the Romanov’s had progressed to the point that there was a growing middle class which included rich people who were not part of the nobility but this only makes the switch to communism a step backwards in social development. I am not an expert on Russian History but I do know that historically speaking it wasn’t that long ago when all of the land and often the people belonged to either the Czar on one of the nobles. When you step to one side and look at things from this angle the idea that Putin is still a devoted communist but one that wants to be Czar is not unthinkable. The idea that the collapse was orchestrated by KGB and it got out of hand is also possible more unlikely but not by that much.
This similarity between an absolute Monarchy and the rule by the communist central committee (an oligarchy) are one of the reasons I like to say that the modern liberals are trying to establish a new neo feudal from of government. Look at how they continually try to create political dynasties, the Kennedys, the Bushes and the Clintons are the best known of the dynasties but there were others where the children ran for and won the fathers seat in Congress and held it for decades. The title of the head of state may change and the titles of the Nobles may change but the authority, the privileges and the economic mess remains the same. Many of the new Nobles don’t understand that they are simply changing the names of the positions and making several backward steps in social development but others in the Oligarchies will understand this and do their best to see that others don’t. The title Count came from the person being the chief executive in a county. I forget the meanings of the other titles of the nobles but they were orginally job description.
I will admit that most of the people who are saying that the collapse was orchestrated by the KGB and the Oligarchs seizing all of the assets probably havn’t thought of this in the terms I am using but this doesn’t mean that they did orginize the fall and the raise of the Oligarchs.
As I said some of the statement is true but I don’t know how much.
What you write makes sense to me.
A distant god-like Czar, Papa Stalin. Vast population of serfs, brutal life of the collective. Huge distances complicating central control, endemic corruption, spasmodic repression.
We look at Russia through Western eyes. Contemporary, constricted ones, at that.
It’s beyond complicated. It really is a different animal. The presumption of the German-mongrel and his lot, that they could see the true red in the kaleidoscope that is Russia!
Churchill had his “enigma” quip, but my father liked this one better:
Beware of the Bear that walks like a Man.
But then he’d say: Never forget that Orthodox Church pageantry is the real McCoy. And that the Bolshoi was founded the same year as the US of A.
What else would you expect from Sweden, or for that matter the socialist states of the EU. It is utterly important to revise history to suit the socialist totalitarian ideology. Even modern words are being replaced in the AP style book to suppress conservative ideas. This is truly one of the most dangerous periods in human history as it constitutes a return to the good old days of slavery.
Don’t forget “Animal Farm” in both the printed and movie form!
Most Canadians have no idea who was Trudeau…Pierre Elliot , nobody should be surprise about Justin and his skinny accomplishments. What has he done beside beside having Trudeau as last name?
The Apple never fall far from the tree.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo154.htm