{"id":3031,"date":"2025-02-03T01:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbe.org\/ymb\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:42:25","slug":"back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbe.org\/ymb\/back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"back to basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Mr. Bukele, el presidente de la Rep\u00fablica de El Salvador<\/em>, praises his labor camps as the way to rehabilitate the lost souls of the criminals he harvested in his widely popular campaign of crime eradication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prisoners not just are removed from the street, – they become an integral part of the new, better Salvador, to the benefit of the society and, obviously, to themselves. They learn a skill<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Musk, presiding over too many entities to list here, approves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found it disappointing however that los presidentes<\/em> didn’t acknowledge the key intellectual predecessors of the notion that forced labor makes one a better person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, below, could have been a tweet, but 90 years ago the tech was more down-to-earth: the slogan1<\/a><\/sup>The photo is borrowed from BELOMOR by Julie Draskoczy, Academic Studies Press, 2014<\/span> was posted in a workers cantina of Belomoro-Baltijskij Kanal, White Sea-Baltic Canal, – one of the earlier Stalinist massive labor camps. It reads: <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The USSR\u2019s corrective-labor politics does not punish, but rather corrects on the basis of socially beneficial labor and political re-education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder sometimes what the correct historic rhyme to Mr. Musk is, and lately I’m more and more inclined to think of him as a Western Beria. While Belomor<\/em> was initiated by his pre-predecessor, Yagoda, Beria, with his immense drive, relentless focus and enormous success (he was the key leader of Soviet nuclear effort in 45-49) is a proper incarnation of Musk and his likes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Say what you want, but the spirit of viewing human masses as mere malleable workforce usable only as a fuel for the dear leader visions blossomed in our tech elites as a veritable Titan arum<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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