Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 16:17:37 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 5/2 GUSTAV LANDAUER 





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MAY 2

GUSTAV LANDAUER
Revolutionist, theorist, editor, martyr, Education Minister in
the
short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.

EVE OF THE FINDING OF THE TRUE CROSS, England. Branches of
mountain
ash & witchen tree gathered as a protection against evil.


1519 - Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci dies, Cloux,
France.

1551 - William Camden (*Britannia*, 1586), lives, London. Chief
historian & antiquarian of Elizabethan times

1668 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution.

1670 - Hudson Bay Company chartered by England's King Charles II,

giving them ownership of "Rupert's Land," which comprises much of

central & western Canada.

1772 - Novalis (pseudonym) lives (1772-1801). Early German
Romantic
poet, who influenced later Romantic thought. The central image of

his visions, a blue flower, became a symbol of longing among
Romantics. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/novalis.htm

1780 - William Herschel discovers first binary star, Xi Ursae
Majoris. He finds most stars are "bi."

1859 - Jerome K. Jerome lives. British journalist, essayist, &
short
story write whose humorous *Three Men in a Boat*, has been
translated into many languages. Wrote over 40 books but in spite
of
his serious works he was labeled permanently as a humorist.

1863 - Target Practice?: Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson was accidentally -- & fatally -- shot by his own troops.
He
died 8 days later.

1881 - Canadian writer Mary Maclane lives, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

1886 - One of the most influential German writers of the mid-20th

century, Gottfried Benn, is born in Mansfeld. Degeneracy &
medical
aspects of decay are important allusions in his early poems, many

found in *Morgue und andere Gedichte* ("Morgue & Other Poems,"
1912). http://qsilver.queensu.ca/german/ta/aster.htm

1886 - US: Twenty-five hundred workers march in Milwaukee for the
8-
hour day.

Demonstrators carry red Socialist flags & the tricolor banners of

the Eight Hour League. In response, the Governor Jeremiah Rusk
supplies the Milwaukee National Guard headquarters with increased

ammunition & the entire city police force with four companies of
infantry & artillery. Despite the threat, the workers will parade
&
avoid violence.

1896 - Marines landed at Corrinto, Nicaragua to "protect" U.S.
interests.

1897 - Italy: Demonstration in Rome after the anarchist Romeo
Frezzi
is found dead in a prison cell, charging the police with killing
him.

1911 - US: First worker compensation law in U.S. enacted in
Wisconsin. America begins to crumble.

1918 - Amilcare Cipriani, Italian anarchist, dies. Friend of
Lissagaray, a socialist whose sympathies lay with Blanquistes
anticlericals, to the anarchists, & Cipriani.

"Distinctly foreign events & concerns, such as the plight of
Russian
nihilists or of Irish tenants, often received more attention from

Liberty than American concerns. Tucker was outraged by the
imprisonment of the Italian Amilcare Cipriani, the trial of
Louise
Michel, & the plight of Russian refugees in Paris."

---http://www.zetetics.com/mac/tir2.htm >"Benjamin Tucker,
Liberty,
& Individualist Anarchism," Wendy McElroy
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre3.html

1919 - Benjamin Spock pediatrician/author, lives.

"There are only two things a child will share willingly --
communicable diseases & his mother's age."
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-spock
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/mar1998/spoc-m18.shtml

1919 - Canada: General Strike in Winnipeg.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/win1919.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/GenStrike.

1919 - Gustav Landauer murdered. See <A
HREF=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0407.htm> April 7, 1870.

Called a "mystical" anarchist, Landauer was involved in the "Red
Bavaria" uprising & murdered by soldiers.
http://www.dradio.de/literatur/kritiken/landauergustav.html
http://www.comlink.de/~graswurzel/223/landauer.html
Gustav Landauer was a signatory to the Ernst Jo=EBl Petition
(1915),
among other leading cultural figures of the day, including Walter

Benjamin, Martin Buber, Kurt Eisner, S. Fischer, Alfred Kerr,
Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Fritz Mauthner and Frank Wedekind.
http://www.wbenjamin.org/joel_frankel.html
http://www.fes.de/culture/galery/Landauer/in-land.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/biblio/sp001652.html
http://www.mdejongh.com/013.html
Cited at CIRA: YASSOUR, Avraham. Gustav Landauer's anarchist
theory.
[In Hebrew] Haifa, 1985. 18 p. * Broch 7633 hb
YASSOUR, Avraham. Gustav Landauer, Communal settlement and its
industrialization (an exchange of letters between Landauer and
Nachum Goldman). Haifa University, s.d. 27 p. ms. * Doc
YASSOUR, Avraham. Gustav Landauer: a man, a jew, an anarchist [in

hebrew]. Ya'ad 2/1989, p. 85-96. * Br 8904 hb
http://www.comlink.de/~graswurzel/wri-sh/utopie.htm
http://www.weltkreis.com/mauthner/land1.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/avril1.html#7

1919 - Brazil: Beginning of General Strike which eventually
includes
50,000 of all trades in Sao Paulo.
http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html

1921 - German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys lives, Cleves, N.
Rhine-Westphalia.
http://www.ruskin-sch.milohedge.com/lab/l4.html

1922 - Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray lives.

1924 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds the involuntary sterilization
of
mentally retarded persons.

1932 - Premiere of Jack Benny program on radio.

1933 - Germany: Adolf Hitler abolishes all labor unions.

1936 - Edna St. Vincent Millay's manuscript of *Conversation at
Midnight* is destroyed in a hotel fire in Florida.
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/e_millay.htm

1936 - The "Sterilizers of Bordeaux" trial in France. In April
1935
France, lacking specific laws against voluntary vasectomies,
charged
Dr. Norbert Bartosek, an anarchist Austrian, & others (among them
<A
HREF=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0323.htm>Aristide
Lapeyre &
both <a
href=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PrevotelAndree.htm>

Andrée & André Prévotel) with the "crime of castration" &
"aggravated assault". Bartosek received three years in prison &
the
others 16 months. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai1.html#2

1945 - Colette becomes first female member of the Académie
Goncourt,
high tribute for literary merit in France.

1954 - First commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet, goes into service.

Soon grounded, for the structural defeat of exploding in the air,

coming down like a comet. BOAC press release: " No comet."

1955 - Caste in Stone?: India: Parliament forbids discrimination
based on caste.

1956 - For the first time in Billboard history, five records
appear
in both the pop and R&B Top 10. They are: Elvis Presley's
"Heartbreak Hotel", Carl Perkin's "Blue Suede Shoes" , Little
Richard's "Long Tall Sally", the Platters' "Magic Touch" and
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love".
Presley's & Perkins' hits are also in the country & western Top
Ten
at #1 & #2 respectively.

I was goin' pretty fast, I looked behind,
a'here come the devil doin' ninety-nine.

---From "Race With the Devil" by Gene Vincent

1957 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Joseph McCarthy Commie-

hunting senator, dies at 47.

"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. I
shot them in cold blood & enjoyed every minute of it . . . They
were
commies, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died
long ago . . . They never thought that there were people like me
in
this country. They figured us all to be soft as horse manure &
just as stupid."

--- Mickey Spillane, *Atlas Shrugged*
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/links/philosophy.html

1958 - Ernesto Nazareno, anti-nuclear activist, arrested &
tortured, Philippines.

1960 - US: Despite international protests, California fries Caryl
Chessman.

1963 - Ring Around the Rosie?: In the American citadel of freedom
&
Christianity, Birmingham, Alabama jails 958 children. Tomorrow
those
not jailed get free showers & doggies, courtesy of "Bull"
Connors.

1967 - US: Armed Black Panther contingent marches into California

State Assembly in Sacramento in protest against a bill that would

ban the carrying of unconcealed weapons.

1968 - <A
HREF=http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0322.htm>Protest
at University of Nanterre escalates into French student strike.
By
May 20 six million workers are on strike; within a few days the
number is up to ten or eleven million.

"The largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an
advanced industrial country, & the first wildcat general strike
in
history; revolutionary occupations & the beginnings of direct
democracy; the increasingly complete collapse of state power for
nearly two weeks; the resounding verification of the
revolutionary
theory of our time & even here & there the first steps toward
putting it into practice; the most important experience of the
modern proletarian movement that is in the process of
constituting
itself in its fully developed form in all countries, & the
example
it must now go beyond * this is what the French May 1968 movement

was essentially, & this in itself already constitutes its
essential victory."

--- <http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/12.era1.htm>*The Beginning
of an Era,* translated by Ken Knabb

Bureau of Public Secrets has an excellent collection of May '68
materials, http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/May68docs.htm
In German, see Maurice Brinton's report,
http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/~sij17370/situ/mai68.html
Chronology of events, France 1968, in French,
http://homer.span.ch/~spaw2154/chrono.htm#Chronologie
In German, see Hannah Arendt's interview with Cohn-Bendit,
http://www.oeko-net.de/eurospeed/grundlagen/abendit.htm
Cohn-Bendit biography in French,
http://homer.span.ch/~spaw2154/danybio.htm
http://www.stuve.uni-muenchen.de/68/france68.html

1968 - US: Despite the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., his
Poor
Peoples' March on Washington, D.C. begins, led by successor Ralph

Abernathy. 3,000 erect Resurrection City, a tent city on the Mall
until the 17th.

1970 - First woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump).

1970 - US: ROTC building burned down at Kent State University in
Ohio.

1971 - US: Jane Fonda & Donald Sutherland address a "G.I.
Anti-War
Rally" in Tacoma.

1972 - Paranoid long-time FBI honcho J. Edgar Hoover dies,
Washington DC. Cross-dresser who ran the FBI as a private fiefdom

from his closet for over four decades.

1972 - Stone the Crow lead guitar player Les Harvey is
electrocuted
on stage at a show in Swansea, Wales. The 25 year old was thrown
into the air after touching a poorly connected microphone.

1974 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Former Vice-President
(during Nixon's 'Lawn Order' administration) Spiro Agnew is
disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals. While Dick M
proclaimed
he was not a crook, Spiro never did. But then Dick M also claimed
to
be a pacifist.

"It is difficult to feel compassion," said the Court in its
unanimous opinion, "for an attorney who is so morally obtuse that
he
consciously cheats...that government that he has sworn to serve."

1980 - Pink Floyd's hit single "Another Brick in the Wall (Part
II)", with its chorus of kids chanting "We don't need no
education",
is banned by the South African government.

Black children, upset about inferior education, adopt the song as

their anthem. The government says the song is "prejudicial to
the
safety of the state."

1982 - British Navy kills 368 in sinking of Argentinean ship
General
Belgrano, South Atlantic.

1984 - 33,000 West German metalworkers strike for 35-hour week.

1985 - Crime Pays: E.F. Hutton, one of the U.S.'s largest
brokerage
companies, pleaded guilty to 2,000 federal charges related to the

manipulation of its checking accounts. The company agreed to pay
$2
million in fines & to pay back up to $8 million to banks it had
defrauded. E.F. Hutton sez "Prison is Hell," & when E.F.
speaks...

1985 - Poverty Program?: US: Senate votes to limit Pentagon
spending
to 85 levels, adjusted for inflation.

1989 - Hungary begins dismantling 150-mile-long fence on
Austrian-
Hungarian border. http://www.beakman.com/christo/fence.html


LAND
n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property.
The
theory that land is property subject to private ownership &
control
is the foundation of modern society, & is eminently worthy of the

superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that
some have the right to prevent others from living; for the right
to
own implies the right exclusively to occupy; & in fact laws of
trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It
follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B &
C,
there will be no place for D, E, F & G to be born, or, born as
trespassers, to exist.

---Ambrose Bierce, *Devil's Dictionary*


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