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Thor A. Hopland<p>And yes, I am a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a>, because <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> also speaks to the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberation</span></a> of men. </p><p>The <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/traditional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>traditional</span></a> man is a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/serf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serf</span></a>, a worker to be stuffed into the mills of death, a soldier to be shoved on to the front line as meat for the grinder (see <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, see <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a>), a gladiator to be tossed into coliseum and be eaten by lions, a piece of meat on the side of your bread and circus.</p><p>Men are however histories greatest <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/romantics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romantics</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/poets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poets</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/philosophers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophers</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/chefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chefs</span></a> and even <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/lovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lovers</span></a>.</p><p>We've been robbed.</p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 2, 1921: Karel Čapek’s science fiction play “R.U.R.” premiered. "R.U.R." stands for “Rossum's Universal Robots.” The play introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to the world of science fiction. He derived the word “Robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs, a derivation he attributed to his brother, Joseph. The play is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play. </p><p>Čapek was opposed to all forms of totalitarianism, including both communism and fascism. As a young man, he worked as a journalist, in Prague, where he wrote on topics such as nationalism, totalitarianism and consumerism. As a teen, he was expelled from his high school for participating in an unauthorized student club, which he later described as a "very non-murderous anarchist society." In 1938, he had the chance to leave for the UK, but refused to leave Czechoslovakia, where the Nazi Gestapo had named him "public enemy number two." He died later that year from pneumonia.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/karelcapek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>karelcapek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/serf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serf</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>play</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bladerunner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bladerunner</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
citizen<p>I ain't no <a href="https://morale.ch/tags/serf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#serf</a> and you can call me<i> <a href="https://morale.ch/tags/citizen" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#citizen</a> </i>. ✊</p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot." He derived the word “robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>play</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KarelCapek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarelCapek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RUR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/serf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serf</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/czech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>czech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bladerunner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bladerunner</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Stormcrow<p><a href="https://hbr.org/2023/02/5-essential-soft-skills-to-develop-in-any-job" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hbr.org/2023/02/5-essential-so</span><span class="invisible">ft-skills-to-develop-in-any-job</span></a>? Got to develop your <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/serf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serf</span></a> skills to keep your corporate owners happy as you spiral down &amp; out. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illnews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/serfingUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serfingUSA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fuckthepatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckthepatriarchy</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot." He derived the word “robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>play</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KarelCapek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarelCapek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RUR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/serf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serf</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/czech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>czech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bladerunner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bladerunner</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>