Non-Employment? Hear Rammstein on German Democratic Republic

Non-Employment? Hear Rammstein on German Democratic Republic · Just Promoting This One

This is what Communism is like:

In the East work was compulsory - you were not allowed not to work. If you didn't pay your rent, you could sometimes end up in prison. To avoid this, I got a job in the library as a boiler worker. I spent my time reading and heating. This is what most East German musicians did : they had some kind of part time job and made music the rest of the time.

paul landers

Rammstein - Who are they? (Full interview with english subtitles)
penata87 | 30.VIII.2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK8EQqH1IM8

Just before 2:46.

This is also why I don't like Communism. It must have been especially hard on Till Lindemann - since he could look back on Till Eulenspiegel; who in the Middle Ages was a much more successful shirker in a society where locally self governed cities would sometimes have similar regulations, but lighter ones : if you didn't have a penny, you would be asked what trade you were, and given an opportunity to exercise it, or you would be given opportunity to learn one.

Note, this was only Empire, and because they had decided to revive Roman Law. In Rome, there had been a worse law, In incertum vagantes. It was reinterpreted so that slavery was replaced by forced apprenticeship - and this only until you had learned two trades.

This is, at least, how I recalled the medieval civil law referred to in this passage:

Summa Theologiae : Second Part of the Second Part
Question 187. Things that are competent to religious
Article 4. Is it lawful for them to live on alms?
http://newadvent.org/summa/3187.htm#article4

... Objection 3. Further, that which is forbidden by law and contrary to justice, is unbecoming to religious. Now begging is forbidden in the divine law; for it is written (Deuteronomy 15:4): "There shall be no poor nor beggar among you," and (Psalm 36:25): "I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread." Moreover an able-bodied mendicant is punished by civil law, according to the law (XI, xxvi, de Valid. Mendicant.). Therefore it is unfitting for religious to beg.

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Reply to Objection 3. This precept of the divine law does not forbid anyone to beg, but it forbids the rich to be so stingy that some are compelled by necessity to beg. The civil law imposes a penalty on able-bodied mendicants who beg from motives neither of utility nor of necessity.

Utility ... while I live off begging, as hopefully later, if my writings are also printed and sold and I live off some kind of royalties, I am writing.

Some might consider my writings useless or harmful. Last month, at least 1500 page views were from four Muslim countries. As I am a Christian, obviously they will consider my defense of Christianity - not just the parts in common with Islam, but the parts attacked, including the parts attacked by Muslims - as harmful. Similarily with Communists from Communist or post-Communist countries like Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine. I am attacking Evolution, am I not? And evolution is their dogma, like Unitarianism and non-Crucifixion of Christ are Muslim ones. And in US, at least some readers are Protestants, and do not like my defense of Catholicism. And in France, where I live, most Catholics are accepting "Pope Francis", Vatican II, and consequently Evolution and Heliocentrism. Even among conservative opponents of Vatican II, some will defend Evolution and nearly all Heliocentrism, as per the attitude of Pius XII. Meaning that in Humani Generis or later, and even from 1945, when Augustin Bea became his father confessor, Pius XII was weak against Evolution, and so, for instance the Society of St Pius X (which seems to take more cues from Pius XII than from their nominal patron) is not very supportive, to say the least.

So, many would think my writing is useless. I think they are wrong.

And meanwhile, I am thankful modern Western society (West of former Iron Curtain) has no such laws as even Medieval Germany on this account, let alone East Germany. Even if some Masons and perhaps Communist networks would like to impose on me a now dead Communist system of legislation.

The reason why even Putin cannot keep up old age pensions any more is not that there is too much freedom not to have paid work after Communism (I'm not sure this freedom even exists in today's Russia). It is that too few are working in comparison to the previous generation, due to abortion and contraception. Those are the bad freedoms that really do need to be attacked.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Raymond Nonnatus
31.VIII.2018