July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[p2p-hackers] economics and networking/storage services (was: Bitcoin incentive on Kademlia networks)
by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

My own p2p project, https://tahoe-lafs.org, is carefully building up toward automation to support social/economic incentives in distributed storage: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/NewAccountingDesign https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Ostrom If we finally get there, we will then have circled back around: b" from Tahoe-LAFS's roots (its direct ancestor was Mojo Nation), b" to a stripped-down version that had no automation to help with social/economic problems and required the users to arrange all that themselves (today's Tahoe-LAFS), b" and back to a version that has automation to help people find new trading partners on the Net, track and control their transactions with them, extend special offers to their friends, and so forth (tomorrow's Tahoe-LAFS?). If our plans work out, then the resulting thing will be reliable and functional b unlike the original Mojo Nation, which never worked well enough to be valuable to users. Regards, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn Founder, CEO, and Customer Support Rep https://LeastAuthority.com _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Oppenheimer
by Anonymous 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

"A classic illustration of this phenomenon comes from a book entitled "Special Tasks" (Little-Brown, 1994, 1995) written by Pavel Sudoplatov and his son Anatoly. Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov was Joseph Stalin's NKVD director in charge of stealing atomic secrets. He reported directly to Beria. >From page 172: "The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American Atomic Bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard." Robert Oppenheimer was the director in charge of the Manhattan project. >From page 186-87: "When it became clear that the atomic project was a heavily guarded, top-secret American priority, Eitingon and I suggested that we use our networks of illegals as couriers for our sources of information. Vassili Zarubin, our Washington rezident, instructed Kheifetz to divorce all intelligence operations from the American Communist party, which we knew would be closely watched by the FBI, and to have Oppenheimer sever all contacts with Communists and left-wingers." On page 188: "In 1943, a world-famous actor of the Moscow Yiddish State Art Theatre, Solomon Mikhoels, together with well -known yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, toured the United States on behalf of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. Before their departure, Beria instructed Mikhoels and Feffer to emphasize the great Jewish contribution to science and culture in the Soviet Union. Their assignment was to raise money and convince American public opinion that Soviet anti-semitism had been crushed as a result of Stalin's policies. Kheifetz made sure that the message they brought was conveyed to Oppenheimer. Kheifetz said that Oppenheimer, the son of a German-Jewish immigrant, was deeply moved by the information that a secure place for Jews in the Soviet Union was guaranteed. They discussed Stalin's plans to set up a Jewish autonomous republic in the Crimea after the war was won against facism." Beria understood the psychology of unitary loyalty perfectly! Continuing on page 189: "In developing Oppenheimer as a source, Vassili Zarubin's wife, Elizabeth, was essential. She hardly appeared foreign in the United States. Her manner was so natural and sociable that she immediately made friends. Slim, with dark eyes, she had the classic Semitic beauty that attracted both men and women, and she was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network of Jewish refugees from Poland, and recruiting one of Szilard's secretaries, who provided technical data." Oppenheimer's rationale was "fear that the Germans might produce the first atomic bomb." But all he had to do to beat the Germans to the punch was to build the bomb for America. And indeed, that would have been the natural result of "dual loyalties." He could have helped Jews and remained loyal to America at the same time. But then helping America was not in the calculus at all. As Beria understood perfectly, he was concerned only with one unitary question; "How does this affect Jews?" And the answer was that just as organizing the blacks and browns to vote their antagonistic racial interests is critical to maintaining Jewish power over whites in the 1990's, giving the atomic secrets to Russia was the one way to reduce the power of whites in America in the 1940s and 50s. Oppenheimer's naive view (prior to the creation of the Israeli State) was that a nuclear armed Russia would provide one more possible haven for Jews with the power to protect them. The goyim in our OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) would have assumed "dual loyalty" and concluded that Oppenheimer presented no security risk." http://www.ddc.net/ygg/rj/rj-26.htm --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[Dewayne-Net] U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

February 21, 2006 U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review By SCOTT SHANE <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html? ex=1298178000&en=521a35355a85281d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 b In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians. The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records. But because the reclassification program is itself shrouded in secrecy b governed by a still-classified memorandum that prohibits the National Archives even from saying which agencies are involved b it continued virtually without outside notice until December. That was when an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves. Mr. Aid was struck by what seemed to him the innocuous contents of the documents b mostly decades-old State Department reports from the Korean War and the early cold war. He found that eight reclassified documents had been previously published in the State Department's history series, "Foreign Relations of the United States." "The stuff they pulled should never have been removed," he said. "Some of it is mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous." After Mr. Aid and other historians complained, the archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees government classification, began an audit of the reclassification program, said J. William Leonard, director of the office. Mr. Leonard said he ordered the audit after reviewing 16 withdrawn documents and concluding that none should be secret. "If those sample records were removed because somebody thought they were classified, I'm shocked and disappointed," Mr. Leonard said in an interview. "It just boggles the mind." [snip] Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Re: Bandwith donation for some days ?
by coderman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 5/30/07, Christoph <chris(a)inferno.nadir.org> wrote: >... >There will be the chaos-communication-camp in August in Germany >(http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/intro) with a 10G uplink. >And since this is never really used, I thought it would be a nice Idea to >set >up some tor-servers there. if there is anyone with a VIA C7 system they could use there i would love to assist with a padlock accelerated openssl/Tor node. i do not have a link where i can test myself, and this would be a useful opportunity to see how much crypto offload improves throughput. i've listed raw openssl stats in a previous message to this list, along with a link to a patch that combines the MONTMULT acceleration for RSA/DSA with the patches for AES/SHA offload via padlock dynamic engine. [my expectation is that zlib compression of traffic will become the new bottle neck, as crypto overhead drops off. i am very interested to see a real world test though...] best regards, ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Oppenheimer
by Anonymous 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

"A classic illustration of this phenomenon comes from a book entitled "Special Tasks" (Little-Brown, 1994, 1995) written by Pavel Sudoplatov and his son Anatoly. Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov was Joseph Stalin's NKVD director in charge of stealing atomic secrets. He reported directly to Beria. >From page 172: "The most vital information for developing the first Soviet atomic bomb came from scientists engaged in the Manhattan Project to build the American Atomic Bomb - Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard." Robert Oppenheimer was the director in charge of the Manhattan project. >From page 186-87: "When it became clear that the atomic project was a heavily guarded, top-secret American priority, Eitingon and I suggested that we use our networks of illegals as couriers for our sources of information. Vassili Zarubin, our Washington rezident, instructed Kheifetz to divorce all intelligence operations from the American Communist party, which we knew would be closely watched by the FBI, and to have Oppenheimer sever all contacts with Communists and left-wingers." On page 188: "In 1943, a world-famous actor of the Moscow Yiddish State Art Theatre, Solomon Mikhoels, together with well -known yiddish poet Itzik Feffer, toured the United States on behalf of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. Before their departure, Beria instructed Mikhoels and Feffer to emphasize the great Jewish contribution to science and culture in the Soviet Union. Their assignment was to raise money and convince American public opinion that Soviet anti-semitism had been crushed as a result of Stalin's policies. Kheifetz made sure that the message they brought was conveyed to Oppenheimer. Kheifetz said that Oppenheimer, the son of a German-Jewish immigrant, was deeply moved by the information that a secure place for Jews in the Soviet Union was guaranteed. They discussed Stalin's plans to set up a Jewish autonomous republic in the Crimea after the war was won against facism." Beria understood the psychology of unitary loyalty perfectly! Continuing on page 189: "In developing Oppenheimer as a source, Vassili Zarubin's wife, Elizabeth, was essential. She hardly appeared foreign in the United States. Her manner was so natural and sociable that she immediately made friends. Slim, with dark eyes, she had the classic Semitic beauty that attracted both men and women, and she was one of the most successful agent recruiters, establishing her own illegal network of Jewish refugees from Poland, and recruiting one of Szilard's secretaries, who provided technical data." Oppenheimer's rationale was "fear that the Germans might produce the first atomic bomb." But all he had to do to beat the Germans to the punch was to build the bomb for America. And indeed, that would have been the natural result of "dual loyalties." He could have helped Jews and remained loyal to America at the same time. But then helping America was not in the calculus at all. As Beria understood perfectly, he was concerned only with one unitary question; "How does this affect Jews?" And the answer was that just as organizing the blacks and browns to vote their antagonistic racial interests is critical to maintaining Jewish power over whites in the 1990's, giving the atomic secrets to Russia was the one way to reduce the power of whites in America in the 1940s and 50s. Oppenheimer's naive view (prior to the creation of the Israeli State) was that a nuclear armed Russia would provide one more possible haven for Jews with the power to protect them. The goyim in our OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) would have assumed "dual loyalty" and concluded that Oppenheimer presented no security risk." http://www.ddc.net/ygg/rj/rj-26.htm --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[Dewayne-Net] U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

February 21, 2006 U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review By SCOTT SHANE <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html? ex=1298178000&en=521a35355a85281d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss> WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 b In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians. The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records. But because the reclassification program is itself shrouded in secrecy b governed by a still-classified memorandum that prohibits the National Archives even from saying which agencies are involved b it continued virtually without outside notice until December. That was when an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves. Mr. Aid was struck by what seemed to him the innocuous contents of the documents b mostly decades-old State Department reports from the Korean War and the early cold war. He found that eight reclassified documents had been previously published in the State Department's history series, "Foreign Relations of the United States." "The stuff they pulled should never have been removed," he said. "Some of it is mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous." After Mr. Aid and other historians complained, the archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees government classification, began an audit of the reclassification program, said J. William Leonard, director of the office. Mr. Leonard said he ordered the audit after reviewing 16 withdrawn documents and concluding that none should be secret. "If those sample records were removed because somebody thought they were classified, I'm shocked and disappointed," Mr. Leonard said in an interview. "It just boggles the mind." [snip] Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Re: Bandwith donation for some days ?
by coderman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 5/30/07, Christoph <chris(a)inferno.nadir.org> wrote: >... >There will be the chaos-communication-camp in August in Germany >(http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/intro) with a 10G uplink. >And since this is never really used, I thought it would be a nice Idea to >set >up some tor-servers there. if there is anyone with a VIA C7 system they could use there i would love to assist with a padlock accelerated openssl/Tor node. i do not have a link where i can test myself, and this would be a useful opportunity to see how much crypto offload improves throughput. i've listed raw openssl stats in a previous message to this list, along with a link to a patch that combines the MONTMULT acceleration for RSA/DSA with the patches for AES/SHA offload via padlock dynamic engine. [my expectation is that zlib compression of traffic will become the new bottle neck, as crypto overhead drops off. i am very interested to see a real world test though...] best regards, ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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The Source of Hitler's Success
by Mises Daily Article 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

<https://www.mises.org/donate.asp> The Mises Institute is inviting nominations for the best 15 Daily Articles of 2004, and the best 5 scholarly articles from either the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (6.3-7.2) or the Journal of Libertarian Studies (17.4-18.3). Send your nominations to <mailto:contact@mises.org>contact(a)mises.org. (We'll leave out best online books, since the the 2004 list is dominated by Menger, Rothbard, and Mises.) The Source of Hitler's Success by Ludwig von Mises <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1691>[Posted December 3, 2004] The following, written in 1940, is excerpted from Interventionism, An Economic Analysis, which was originally part of <http://www.mises.org/humanaction/pdf/nationaloekonomie.pdf>Nationaloekonomie, the German predecessor to Human Action. <http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/contents.asp>The entire text is online for the first time. <https://www.mises.org/donate.aspx#support>Support Mises.org's online texts. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini constantly proclaim that they are chosen by destiny to bring salvation to this world. They claim they are the leaders of the creative youth who fight against their outlived elders. They bring from the East the new culture which is to replace the dying Western civilization. They want to give the coup de grace to liberalism and capitalism; they want to overcome immoral egoism by altruism; they plan to replace the anarchic democracy by order and organization, the society of classes by the total state, the market economy by socialism. Their war is not a war for territorial expansion, for loot and hegemony like the imperialistic wars of the past, but a holy crusade for a better world to live in. And they feel certain of their victory because they are convinced that they are borne by the wave of the future. It is a law of nature, they say, that great historic changes cannot take place peacefully or without conflict. It would be petty and stupid, they contend, to overlook the creative quality of their work because of some unpleasantness which the great world revolution must necessarily bring with it. They maintain one should not overlook the glory of the new gospel because of ill-placed pity for Jews and Masons, Poles and Czechs, Finns and Greeks, the decadent English aristocracy and the corrupt French bourgeoisie. Such softness and such blindness for the new standards of morality prove only the decadence of the dying capitalistic pseudo-culture. The whining and crying of impotent old men, they say, is futile; it will not stop the victorious advance of youth. No one can stop the wheel of history, or turn back the clock of time. The success of this propaganda is overwhelming. People do not consider the content of alleged new gospel; they merely understand that it is new and believe to see in this fact its justification. As women welcome a new style in clothes just to have a change, so the supposedly new style in politics and economics is welcomed. People hasten to exchange their old ideas for new ones, because they fear to appear old-fashioned and reactionary. They join the chorus decrying the shortcomings of the capitalistic civilization and speak in elated enthusiasm of the achievements of the autocrats. Nothing is today more fashionable than slandering Western civilization. This mentality has made it easy for Hitler to gain his victories. The Czechs and the Danes capitulated without a fight. Norwegian officers handed over large sections of their country to Hitlers army. The Dutch and the Belgians gave in after only a short resistance. The French had the audacity to celebrate the destruction of their independence as a national revival. It took Hitler five years to effect the Anschluss of Austria; two-and-one-half years later he was master of the European continent. Hitler does not have a new secret weapon at his disposal. He does not owe his victory to an excellent intelligence service which informs him of the plans of his opponents. Even the much-talked-of fifth column was not decisive. He won because the supposed opponents were already quite sympathetic to the ideas for which he stood. Only those who unconditionally and unrestrictedly consider the market economy as the only workable form of social cooperation are opponents of the totalitarian systems and are capable of fighting them successfully. Those who want socialism intend to bring to their country the system which Russia and Germany enjoy. To favor interventionism means to enter a road which inevitably leads to socialism. An ideological struggle cannot be fought successfully with constant concessions to the principles of the enemy. Those who refute capitalism because it supposedly is inimical to the interest of the masses, those who proclaim as a matter of course that after the victory over Hitler the market economy will have to be replaced by a better system and, therefore, everything should be done now to make the government control of business as complete as possible, are actually fighting for totalitarianism. The progressives who today masquerade as liberals may rant against fascism; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. <http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/contents.asp> Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the progressives, denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of capital. The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again. Was it not true that, since the seventies of the last century, the ostensibly pro-labor Social-Democrats had fought all the pro-labor measures of the German government vigorously, calling them bourgeois and injurious to the interests of the working class? The Social-Democrats had consistently voted against the nationalization of the railroads, the municipalization of the public utilities, labor legislation, and compulsory accident, sickness, and old-age insurance, the German social security system which was adopted later throughout the world. Then after the war [World War l] the Communists branded the German Social-Democratic party and the Social-Democratic unions as traitors to their class. So the German workers realized that every party wooing them called the competing parties willing servants of capitalism, and their allegiance to Nazism would not be shattered by such phrases. Unless we are utterly oblivious to the facts, we must realize that the German workers are the most reliable supporters of the Hitler regime. Nazism has won them over completely by eliminating unemployment and by reducing the entrepreneurs to the status of shop managers (Betriebsfuhrer). Big business, shopkeepers, and peasants are disappointed. Labor is well satisfied and will stand by Hitler, unless the war takes a turn which would destroy their hope for a better life after the peace treaty. Only military reverses can deprive Hitler of the backing of the German workers. The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs, faced with the alternative of Communism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be liquidated as bourgeois by Stalin. Capitalists dont like to be killed any more than other people do. What pernicious effects may be produced by believing that the German workers are opposed to Hitler was proved by the English tactics during the first year of the war. The government of Neville Chamberlain<http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/section7.asp#_ftn10>* firmly believed that the war would be brought to an end by a revolution of the German workers. Instead of concentrating on vigorous arming and fighting, they had their planes drop leaflets over Germany telling the German workers that England was not fighting this war against them, but against their oppressor, Hitler. The English government knew very well, they said, that the German people, particularly labor, were against war and were only forced into it by their self-imposed dictator. The workers in the Anglo-Saxon countries, too, knew that the socialist parties competing for their favor usually accused each other of favoring capitalism. Communists of all shades advance this accusation against socialists. And within the Communist groups the Trotskyites used this same argument against Stalin and his men. And vice versa. The fact that the progressives bring the same accusation against Nazism and Fascism will not prevent labor some day from following another gang wearing shirts of a different color. What is wrong with Western civilization is the accepted habit of judging political parties merely by asking whether they seem new and radical enough, not by analyzing whether they are wise or unwise, or whether they are apt to achieve their aims. Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible. The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is left and what is right? Why should Hitler be right and Stalin, his temporary friend, be left? Who is reactionary and who is progressive? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended. Nothing should find acceptance just because it is new, radical, and fashionable. Orthodoxy is not an evil if the doctrine on which the orthodox stand is sound. Who is anti-labor, those who want to lower labor to the Russian level, or those who want for labor the capitalistic standard of the United States? Who is nationalist, those who want to bring their nation under the heel of the Nazis, or those who want to preserve its independence? What would have happened to Western civilization if its peoples had always shown such liking for the new? Suppose they had welcomed as the wave of the future Attila and his Huns, the creed of Mohammed, or the Tartars? They, too, were totalitarian and had military successes to their credit which made the weak hesitate and ready to capitulate. 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The Source of Hitler's Success
by Mises Daily Article 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

<https://www.mises.org/donate.asp> The Mises Institute is inviting nominations for the best 15 Daily Articles of 2004, and the best 5 scholarly articles from either the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (6.3-7.2) or the Journal of Libertarian Studies (17.4-18.3). Send your nominations to <mailto:contact@mises.org>contact(a)mises.org. (We'll leave out best online books, since the the 2004 list is dominated by Menger, Rothbard, and Mises.) The Source of Hitler's Success by Ludwig von Mises <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1691>[Posted December 3, 2004] The following, written in 1940, is excerpted from Interventionism, An Economic Analysis, which was originally part of <http://www.mises.org/humanaction/pdf/nationaloekonomie.pdf>Nationaloekonomie, the German predecessor to Human Action. <http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/contents.asp>The entire text is online for the first time. <https://www.mises.org/donate.aspx#support>Support Mises.org's online texts. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini constantly proclaim that they are chosen by destiny to bring salvation to this world. They claim they are the leaders of the creative youth who fight against their outlived elders. They bring from the East the new culture which is to replace the dying Western civilization. They want to give the coup de grace to liberalism and capitalism; they want to overcome immoral egoism by altruism; they plan to replace the anarchic democracy by order and organization, the society of classes by the total state, the market economy by socialism. Their war is not a war for territorial expansion, for loot and hegemony like the imperialistic wars of the past, but a holy crusade for a better world to live in. And they feel certain of their victory because they are convinced that they are borne by the wave of the future. It is a law of nature, they say, that great historic changes cannot take place peacefully or without conflict. It would be petty and stupid, they contend, to overlook the creative quality of their work because of some unpleasantness which the great world revolution must necessarily bring with it. They maintain one should not overlook the glory of the new gospel because of ill-placed pity for Jews and Masons, Poles and Czechs, Finns and Greeks, the decadent English aristocracy and the corrupt French bourgeoisie. Such softness and such blindness for the new standards of morality prove only the decadence of the dying capitalistic pseudo-culture. The whining and crying of impotent old men, they say, is futile; it will not stop the victorious advance of youth. No one can stop the wheel of history, or turn back the clock of time. The success of this propaganda is overwhelming. People do not consider the content of alleged new gospel; they merely understand that it is new and believe to see in this fact its justification. As women welcome a new style in clothes just to have a change, so the supposedly new style in politics and economics is welcomed. People hasten to exchange their old ideas for new ones, because they fear to appear old-fashioned and reactionary. They join the chorus decrying the shortcomings of the capitalistic civilization and speak in elated enthusiasm of the achievements of the autocrats. Nothing is today more fashionable than slandering Western civilization. This mentality has made it easy for Hitler to gain his victories. The Czechs and the Danes capitulated without a fight. Norwegian officers handed over large sections of their country to Hitlers army. The Dutch and the Belgians gave in after only a short resistance. The French had the audacity to celebrate the destruction of their independence as a national revival. It took Hitler five years to effect the Anschluss of Austria; two-and-one-half years later he was master of the European continent. Hitler does not have a new secret weapon at his disposal. He does not owe his victory to an excellent intelligence service which informs him of the plans of his opponents. Even the much-talked-of fifth column was not decisive. He won because the supposed opponents were already quite sympathetic to the ideas for which he stood. Only those who unconditionally and unrestrictedly consider the market economy as the only workable form of social cooperation are opponents of the totalitarian systems and are capable of fighting them successfully. Those who want socialism intend to bring to their country the system which Russia and Germany enjoy. To favor interventionism means to enter a road which inevitably leads to socialism. An ideological struggle cannot be fought successfully with constant concessions to the principles of the enemy. Those who refute capitalism because it supposedly is inimical to the interest of the masses, those who proclaim as a matter of course that after the victory over Hitler the market economy will have to be replaced by a better system and, therefore, everything should be done now to make the government control of business as complete as possible, are actually fighting for totalitarianism. The progressives who today masquerade as liberals may rant against fascism; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. <http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/contents.asp> Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the progressives, denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of capital. The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again. Was it not true that, since the seventies of the last century, the ostensibly pro-labor Social-Democrats had fought all the pro-labor measures of the German government vigorously, calling them bourgeois and injurious to the interests of the working class? The Social-Democrats had consistently voted against the nationalization of the railroads, the municipalization of the public utilities, labor legislation, and compulsory accident, sickness, and old-age insurance, the German social security system which was adopted later throughout the world. Then after the war [World War l] the Communists branded the German Social-Democratic party and the Social-Democratic unions as traitors to their class. So the German workers realized that every party wooing them called the competing parties willing servants of capitalism, and their allegiance to Nazism would not be shattered by such phrases. Unless we are utterly oblivious to the facts, we must realize that the German workers are the most reliable supporters of the Hitler regime. Nazism has won them over completely by eliminating unemployment and by reducing the entrepreneurs to the status of shop managers (Betriebsfuhrer). Big business, shopkeepers, and peasants are disappointed. Labor is well satisfied and will stand by Hitler, unless the war takes a turn which would destroy their hope for a better life after the peace treaty. Only military reverses can deprive Hitler of the backing of the German workers. The fact that the capitalists and entrepreneurs, faced with the alternative of Communism or Nazism, chose the latter, does not require any further explanation. They preferred to live as shop managers under Hitler than to be liquidated as bourgeois by Stalin. Capitalists dont like to be killed any more than other people do. What pernicious effects may be produced by believing that the German workers are opposed to Hitler was proved by the English tactics during the first year of the war. The government of Neville Chamberlain<http://www.mises.org/etexts/mises/interventionism/section7.asp#_ftn10>* firmly believed that the war would be brought to an end by a revolution of the German workers. Instead of concentrating on vigorous arming and fighting, they had their planes drop leaflets over Germany telling the German workers that England was not fighting this war against them, but against their oppressor, Hitler. The English government knew very well, they said, that the German people, particularly labor, were against war and were only forced into it by their self-imposed dictator. The workers in the Anglo-Saxon countries, too, knew that the socialist parties competing for their favor usually accused each other of favoring capitalism. Communists of all shades advance this accusation against socialists. And within the Communist groups the Trotskyites used this same argument against Stalin and his men. And vice versa. The fact that the progressives bring the same accusation against Nazism and Fascism will not prevent labor some day from following another gang wearing shirts of a different color. What is wrong with Western civilization is the accepted habit of judging political parties merely by asking whether they seem new and radical enough, not by analyzing whether they are wise or unwise, or whether they are apt to achieve their aims. Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible. The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is left and what is right? Why should Hitler be right and Stalin, his temporary friend, be left? Who is reactionary and who is progressive? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended. Nothing should find acceptance just because it is new, radical, and fashionable. Orthodoxy is not an evil if the doctrine on which the orthodox stand is sound. Who is anti-labor, those who want to lower labor to the Russian level, or those who want for labor the capitalistic standard of the United States? Who is nationalist, those who want to bring their nation under the heel of the Nazis, or those who want to preserve its independence? What would have happened to Western civilization if its peoples had always shown such liking for the new? Suppose they had welcomed as the wave of the future Attila and his Huns, the creed of Mohammed, or the Tartars? They, too, were totalitarian and had military successes to their credit which made the weak hesitate and ready to capitulate. 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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [ZS] ZS reboot seed
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

So, now the question is, what do we do? The logical answer would be to start testing them. Whomever is good with web apps written in Ruby could set up an instance or two of the Smallest Federated Wiki for us to test. Porting some of the stuff from the Google Pages over to it would be a good way to put it through its paces. Once they're up, getting them working over Tor would be the next logical step. I've got a copy of Fossil installed on Windbringer to play around with. Installing it is pretty straightforward. The workflow is different from Git, though, so it takes some getting used to. I'm working on a cribsheet of how to do practical stuff with it immediately (along the lines of the Git In 20 Commands page that the Linux kernel team used to have), which I'll post to this list. I'll put together a Fossil repository of stuff for us to mess around with - probably some of the ZS Google Pages. When a few folks are working on it, I'll throw a server on a Tor node and we can practice synching our respective copies that way. Litter's been fun to play with, and I'd suggest that others do as well. You need Python 2 installed on your machine, but that's it, it's based entirely on the libraries that come with Python by default. I've forked the project on Github because I plan on doing some work on it - it's got potential for use in Byzantium. I still haven't tried it over Tor; because it uses IP multicasting it might not work. None of the research I've done shows that IP multicasting over Tor works. Torchat is pretty nifty. I've used the python version a bit and it seems pretty stable. I don't know why the primary maintainer is rewriting it in Pascal but there should be binary-only downloads available when it's ready. That's my primary concern, that it's written in an odd language, but that's probably my language prejudices talking. As the name suggests, it's married to Tor because it uses the hidden service naming scheme to find people on the buddy list (but they can be aliased to more understandable names). No group chat that I know of. I haven't had time to mess with Tahoe-LAFS since the last Byzantium dev sprint, so I can't really speak to it. I had problems with it but Haxwithaxe and Sitwon didn't. So, that's on my hit list of things to do in the near future. More to come. SocialVPN hasn't been touched since 2011, and besides that there is a chance that XMPP server operators would start finding ways of blocking it because it basically means that you'd be running all of your network traffic through their server. That's a serious bandwidth sink, and it's not well understood how many people (or how much traffic) would bring a server to its knees. All things considered, wrecking someone's XMPP server by running a parasitic VPN over it is against a couple of the Principles, so it's out. I haven't done anything with any of the Github-like software mentioned earlier, so I can't speak to it. If anyone sets up an instance or two, your opinions would be welcome. Maybe we need them, maybe we won't (i.e., Fossil or something else). I still like YaCy, and still need more disk space for it. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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