Dialecticus

J'aime la beauté, la beauté et son génie

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

#Art #Exposition @CentreGravure
Intra-muros 11.04.2026 → 30.08.2026
jean marchetti, coiffeur, galeriste, éditeur
50 ans d’images & de mots
L’exposition met en lumière le parcours singulier de Jean Marchetti (Boussu, 1952), figure atypique de la scène artistique belge, à la fois coiffeur, galeriste et éditeur.
https://t.co/TRkAEucjd4

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

@fuckthedip Cette oblique baissière peut être la face supérieure droite d'un diamant en formation sur le #CAC40
L'axe horizontal de ce #diamant est à ~8100

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Mistral défend l'utilisation militaire de l'IA après les critiques du pape Léon
#Zonebourse #IA #PapeLéonXIV @Pontifex_fr
https://t.co/nVKt0RAZaw

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Le procès de Didier Reynders doit avoir lieu SANS transaction pénale pouvant le blanchir et surtout blanchir la SOURCE de ses fonds illicites !
D'où provenait cet argent si nécessaire à blanchir ?
#DidierReynders #ReyndersGate
https://t.co/75wI6LsLU5

[Handre @Handre]

The Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster stands as history's most vivid demonstration that collectivism breeds tyranny and starvation centuries before Marx penned a single word about class struggle.

In 1534, radical Anabaptist preachers seized control of this German city and immediately declared their "New Jerusalem" built on complete communal ownership. Private property vanished overnight. The new regime confiscated all money and demanded citizens pool every resource for the collective good. Sound familiar?

The self-proclaimed "Tailor-King" Jan van Leiden ruled this proto-socialist paradise with absolute authority, enforcing his vision of equality through systematic terror. Dissenters faced immediate execution. The state mandated polygamy as official policy while abolishing individual economic choice entirely.

When you destroy price signals and property rights, you destroy the coordination mechanism that feeds cities. Münster's collectivist experiment delivered exactly what economic theory predicts: rapid collapse into famine and chaos. Within months, residents ate rats and boiled leather to survive. Reports of cannibalism emerged as the egalitarian dream transformed into a living nightmare.

The most predictable element? Elite hypocrisy. While ordinary citizens starved in their enforced equality, van Leiden and his inner circle lived in luxury, enjoying the finest food and accommodations the collective could provide. Centralized power inevitably corrupts those who wield it.

The economic logic remains bulletproof: without private property, individuals lose incentive to produce efficiently. Without market prices, planners cannot calculate resource allocation. Without voluntary exchange, coercion becomes the only tool for organizing complex society. Münster's rulers discovered these iron laws the hard way.

The starving city collapsed from within as its communist economy proved incapable of sustaining basic human life. When Catholic armies finally retook Münster in 1535, they found a wasteland of economic destruction and human misery.

The victors tortured the surviving Anabaptist leaders and displayed their bodies in iron cages hung from the city's main church. Those cages remained there for centuries as a warning about utopian schemes that promise equality but deliver only death.

Modern advocates of wealth redistribution and collective ownership prefer to ignore Münster's lessons. They insist their version of centralized control will somehow escape the economic laws that doomed every previous attempt. But human nature and market forces operate independently of ideological wishes.

The Anabaptist experiment reveals the fatal flaw in all collectivist thinking: the assumption that abolishing property rights creates abundance rather than scarcity. In reality, property rights exist because they solve the fundamental problem of resource allocation in a world of competing needs and limited goods.

Münster's collapse took just sixteen months to complete. The city's descent from Protestant reform to communist tyranny to economic wasteland offers a perfect case study in how quickly good intentions can destroy functioning societies when they ignore basic economic principles.

You can find those iron cages in Münster today, still hanging from St. Lambert's Church after nearly five centuries. They serve as permanent reminders that collectivism's promises always end the same way: in starvation, tyranny, and death.

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Quelle est la GALAXIE la plus GRANDE de l'Univers ?
#Astronomie #Univers
https://t.co/Tm1Bf5Fp5T via @YouTube

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L'#Iran en grande mutation malgré la guerre #IranWar‌
#IranRevolution2026‌
https://t.co/J3EE7czuuv via @YouTube

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Dans le film «The Kid» de Charlie Chaplin, l'enfant casse des vitres pour que son père puisse venir les remplacer.
Le fabricant de matériel anti drones n'aurait-il pas aussi utilisé des drones dans le but de vendre ses appareils ?
Les Russes ont bon dos pour justifier ces dépenses !
https://t.co/krOFJ1G7hs

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Le gouvernement italien est intervenu aujourd'hui par un nouveau décret prolongeant la réduction des droits d'accise sur les carburants et l'étendant à un soutien ciblé aux agriculteurs et aux entreprises exportatrices.
Cette mesure est nécessaire pour faire face à une situation particulièrement délicate, marquée par des tensions internationales qui ont des répercussions concrètes sur les coûts de l'énergie et l'économie.
Nous savons que la situation demeure complexe. C'est pourquoi le gouvernement continuera de suivre de près l'évolution de la situation internationale et de mettre en œuvre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour protéger les familles, les entreprises et l'emploi.
Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni
https://t.co/or8UHdXHpY via @YouTube

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Le vrai problème du choc pétrolier (personne n’en parle)
#Pétrole
https://t.co/Fo2OlXHYi7 via @YouTube

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

Depiction of the Milky Way in the Tomb of Ramesses VI.

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Arthur CRAVAN – Trésors de brutalité (1/4) : Des paroles (Haut l'Éclair ... https://t.co/SZncXanM9A via @YouTube

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Arthur CRAVAN – Trésors de brutalité (1/4) : Des paroles
#Littérature #Poésie
(Haut l'Éclair ... https://t.co/SZncXanM9A via @YouTube

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

Egypt, one of the biggest downgrades in history.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

When marble speaks

[Muse @xmuse_]

Giovanni Spertini - Girl Writing, c.1874

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

Un Sommet européen extramuros !
N'ont-ils pas assez de locaux à Bruxelles ?
Dans la Chine impériale, les «voyages incessants» des mandarins étaient le rouage central d'un système bureaucratique sophistiqué conçu pour maintenir le contrôle de l'empereur sur un territoire immense
#EUsummit

[Dialecticus @dialecticus_]

@BirdingBrussels An extramuros summit at Alden Biesen !
Don't they have enough premises in Brussels ?
#EUsommit

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@DM_Vincenzo An extramuros summit at Alden Biesen !
Don't they have enough premises in Brussels ?
#EUsommit

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

A statue of Saint George slaying the dragon located on the corner of the Rathaus St. Johann (City Hall) in Saarbrücken, Germany,.