Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht, born on this day in 1871, was a German socialist politician and theorist. Originally associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht later became a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of both the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Liebknecht is also known for his outspoken opposition to World War I.
The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD, Karl Liebknecht trained to be a lawyer and defended many Social Democrats in political trials. He was also a leading figure in the socialist youth movement and thus became a leading figure in the struggle against militarism.
As a deputy in the Reichstag he was one of the first SPD representatives to break party discipline and vote against war credits in December 1914. He became a figurehead for the struggle against the war. His opposition was so successful that his parliamentary immunity was removed and he was improsoned.
Freed by the November revolution he immediately threw himself into the struggle and became with Rosa Luxemburg one of the founders of the new Communist Party (KPD)
In January 1919, the Spartacus League played a leading role in the Spartacist Uprising, a general strike and armed rebellion in Berlin. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units composed of World War I veterans). For their role in the uprising, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on January 15th, 1919.
Their contributions to European socialism are commemorated annually in Germany during the second weekend of January, an event known as the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, or "LL-Demo" for short.
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They noticed that 7/12 = 1/3 – ¼. So they cut 4 sheets into 12 thirds, and 3 sheets into 12 fourths. Each worker got one third and one fourth, or 7/12.
For the other distributions they used:
5/6 = ½ + 1/3; 13/12 = 1/3 + ¾; 13/36 = ¼ + 1/9; 26/21 = 2/3 +4/7, and so on.
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(A) Use two digits to make the smallest possible positive integer.
(B) Five 3s can express 37:
37 = 33 + 3 + 3/3
Find another way to do it.
(C) Use six identical digits to make 100. (Several solutions are possible.)
(D) Use five 4s to make 55.
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So it appears that the Taliban are a mere 11km from Kabul's center, they are effectively skirmishing with ANA troops at the outskirts of the capital. I feel bad for the Afghans, they endured years of conflict, a shitty US occupation, an insanely corrupt US backed govt. and now they face the Taliban once again. And when the Taliban wins, what's next? Will they divide? Yet another civil war?
entropy of victory. the Taliban is not a single group with a coherent command struggle, and there are other Jihadist groups too including remnants of ISIS in Afghanistan, the only thing that stops most of them fighting or securing regional power bases is the war against the US backed regime. it'll be like it was pre-coalition invasion, local tribal conflicts and small localised armed Jihadist groups running their own areas.
more or less any government is going to have their influence end at the city limits of Kabul tbqh. Afghanistan has always been very autonomous, and they just do not have the infrastructure or state capacity for a centralised state, nor the political demand
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Wonder if they'll stay there until Americans evacuate. They probably realize it'll take just one dead American for American opinion on withdrawal to swing.
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I am going to fucking [REDACTED] in minecraft Lisa Nandy and Kier Starmer. imperialist scum. Britain has tried to colonise Afghanistan for 200 years, and the social fascists still argue it's our white moral duty to do so. how about I colonise your head with a fucking bullet
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