On January 29, 1911, a small band of 18 revolutionaries marched into Mexicali and seized the town, practically without firing a shot. Thus began one of the most unusual and controversial episodes in Mexican history.
With all the "Trump is a Nazi" rhetoric, I thought now would be a good time to repost this diary.
The only thing worse than forgetting history is misremembering it.
Getting your history wrong can cause important mistakes.
For instance, people wonder why Germany is so insistent on austerity measures in Europe despite the continent sinking into deflation.
The reason given usually looks like this.
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment."
- David Brooks
We are starting to see a lot of news articles talking about "reshoring".
There's been a lot of heated debate over sky-high corporate compensation, but little information about how those immense salaries are agreed to.
Supporters of the current system will point out that those CEO's don't dictate their salary. It is negotiated in a free-market system.
Is that the whole story? No. In fact that is only a half-truth.
My family moved to Libby, Montana in the 1970's when I was still young. I spent the largest part of my childhood growing up in this tiny, mountain town.
Since people are starting to draw comparisons to the Weimar Republic, I thought that I would post a couple old diaries (in one essay) that might fill in some historical blanks.
The Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch
Since cavemen sat around a fire, the primary entertainment of mankind has always been storytelling. As any English teacher can tell you, there are only two basic stories: a) Hero goes on a journey, and b) Stranger comes to town. The former is usually the favorite, and for good reason.
"Bandit" is a very interesting term. It implies that we aren't actually fighting a war against a legitimate military foe, but are instead just hunting a group of outlaws. Thus the rules of war don't apply.
Bandit was the term used by America when it occupied Nicaragua from 1925 to 1933 and failed to quash the Sandino Revolt. But where did the American propaganda machine create that term from?
