The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World by Sophia Moskalenko & Clark McCauley
The Marvel of Martyrdom takes a broad perspective on self-sacrifice and martyrdom, bringing together religion, popular culture, history, psychology and mythology. Stories of individuals both famous (Gandhi) and obscure (Rodrigo Rosenberg) intertwine with research on altruism, happiness, and radicalization to terrorism.
It's really long, long past time for #Scholz and #Germany and #Poland and #Switzerland to tell their oligarchs and kleptocrats that #NATO and #Europe need to stop caring about how much more wealthy European oligarchs and kleptocrats get from doing endless back-door business with #Russia and perhaps consider the interests of the citizens of their countries
Today in Labor History March 13, 1968: Student demonstrations in Warsaw led to street riots. All Polish universities went out on strike against the repressive communist regime, with students occupying the campus buildings. The strike, which came in the wake of Soviet withdrawals of diplomatic relations with Israel, in the protest of the 1967 war, spread throughout the country, leading to a violent government crackdown and antisemitic purge that was branded as anti-Zionism. Thousands of Jews fled the country because of political harassment and being fired from their jobs.
Today in Labor History March 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was born in Zamosc, Poland. Together with Karl Liebknecht, she helped found the radical Spartacus League in 1916. The Spartacists and other leftwing Council Communists launched an uprising to replace the Social Democratic government with a communist one. Many of the workers obtained arms. They tried, but failed, to get the support of the Navy, which remained neutral in the conflict. However, the Social Democrats got the anti-Communist Freikorps paramilitary to fight for their side. Many of the ultranationalist Freikorps members were suffering from PTSD from WWI. Many went onto to become members of the Nazi Party and served in the SS. The Freikorps had weapons and military equipment leftover from WWI and were able to quash the uprising within a week. Up to 200 people died in the fighting, including 17 Freikorps soldiers. The Social Democrats captured, beat and executed Liebknecht and Luxemburg.
Czechs protested the meeting of Czech and Hungarian prime ministers in Prague over their position on the war in Ukraine. Despite differences on Ukraine, the Czech prime minister believes the Visegrad format still makes sense. #Czech#Ukraine
"#orban wants it all his own way and forget everything else!"
🤡 #Orban said that he would not like to have a common border with #Russia
After the #Visegrad_Four summit, the #Hungarian Prime Minister noted that for his country it is “national interest and the most important issue of national security” not to have a common border with #Russia, because “there are bad memories” of such periods in history.
All the🔸people "bordering Ukraine" are under heavy russian influence/compromised leaders, but to a much lesser extent🔹#Czechia is not (but nearly was).