Erich Muhsam was born in Berlin in 1878 into a fairly well-to-do Jewish family. Soon after his family moved to Luebeck in north Germany where his father worked as a pharmacist (in fact the pharmacy is still there).
He hated the school where he was sent, which was known for its authoritarian discipline and its unsparing use of corporal punishment. Erich was often a victim of "the unspeakable flailings which were supposed to beat out of me all my innate feelings" because his rebellious nature often clashed with the school regime. In 1896 he wrote an anonymous piece for the socialist paper Luebecker Volsboten denouncing one of the school's most brutal teachers. This caused a scandal and Erich was expelled for taking part in socialist activities.
Erich had wanted to be a writer and poet from an early age and he left Luebeck to pursue this aim in Berlin in 1900. He got involved in a group called Neue Gemeinschaft (New Society) which combined socialist ideology with experiments in communal living. Here he met Gustav Landauer who introduced him to anarchist communist ideas. Muehsam contributed to Kampf, the anarchist paper of his friend Senna Hoy, who later died in terrible conditions in a Russian prison.
In 1904 Erich went to Ascona in Italian Switzerland to live in the artists' colony of Monte Verita (the writer Herman Hesse, the dance theorist Laban, the psychotherapist Otto Gross and many Daddaists and Expressionists lived there at one time or other).
He began writing plays there, the first of which, The Con Men, mixed new political theory with traditional dramatic forms. He also continued contributing to many anarchist papers, which drew the attention of the German authorities. He was considered one of the most dangerous anarchist agitators.
He moved to Munich in 1908 and took part in the cabaret movement. He did not care much for writing cabaret songs, but he achieved much notice because of them.
In 1911 he founded the paper Kain which advocated anarchist communism. He castigated and ridiculed the German state, fighting capital punishment and theatre censorship, and prophetically analysing international affairs. The World War that he had predicted led to the suspension of Kain.
At first Erich publicly supported the war, but by the end of 1914 was persuaded that he had been wrong, saying that, "I will probably have to bear the sin of betraying my ideals for the rest of my life". He threw himself into anti-war activity taking part in various actions. He supported the strikes that were beginning to break out. As these became more widespread and began to take on a revolutionary nature, Erich was among those arrested and imprisoned in April 1918, and then freed in November.
With the fall of the Kaiser and King Ludwig of Bavaria, Munich burst into revolt. Muehsam and Landauer as well as Ret Marut (later known as the novelist B. Traven) were among those agitating for the setting up of Workers Councils which led on to the founding of the Bavarian Council Republic. This lasted only a week. The Social Democrats, terrified by the thought of revolution, allied with the right. The Freikorps, a reactionary militia organised by the socialist minister Noske and composed of right wing military and students, crushed the Council Republic. Landauer died under the blows of rifle butts and boots.
Muehsam escaped but was later captured and sent to prison for 15 years. In prison, Erich continued with his writing, composing many poems and the play Judas. Released in the amnesty of 1924, he returned to a Munich in the grip of apathy. He joined the Anarchist Communist Federation of Germany (FKAD). He restarted Kain but this failed after a few issues. He then brought out Fanal (The Torch) where he attacked both the Communists and the far right. His openly revolutionary tone and his attempts to stop the rise of the right made him a hate figure among conservatives and Nazis.
He used satire to ridicule the Nazis with short stories and poems. This came to the personal attention of Hitler and Goebbels, arousing their anger. He agitated for the freeing of the revolutionary Max Hoelz and wrote a play, Staatsraeson (For reasons of State) in defence of Sacco and Vanzetti), in 1928.
In 1930 he completed his last play Alle Wetter (All Hang) which called for mass revolution as the only way to stop the seizure of power by the radical Right.
A few hours after Van der Lubbe had set fire to the Reichstag in February 1933, Muehsam was arrested and then spent the last 17 months of his life in the concentration camps of Sonnenburg, Brandenburg and Oranienburg. His teeth were smashed in with rifle butts, his scalp was branded with a swastika from a red-hot iron and he was hospitalised. He was forced to dig his own grave for a mock execution, and his body became a mass of bruises and wounds. His tormentors tried to force him to sing the Nazi song the Horst Wessel Lied. He refused to give in and sang the International. " Thanks to his will power he resisted all attempts to humiliate him" (Augustin Souchy).
Despite these tortures Erich remained intransigent to the end. Finally he was tortured and murdered on the night of 9th July 1934. After beatings, a Stormtrooper leader administered a lethal injection and then a suicide by hanging was faked.
Never in my life have I learnt
To submit to anyone
Here I am locked up,
Far from my home,
My wife, my workshop.
And even if they kill me,
If I must die,
To give up is to lie!
...
But if the chains broke
Then I would breathe in sunshine
At the top of my lungs- Tyranny!
And I would cry to the people: be free!
Forget to submit yourselves!
To give up is to lie!
From Muhsam's poem The Prisoner
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Anarchist Federation Biography of German Anarchist Erich Muhsam from AF publication Organise in 2006
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Mühsam, Erich: His life, his work, his martyrdom - Augustin Souchy
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Excellent! I will be receiving the 212 today at some point, I hope this is it!
As for the casing, thanks, I was certainly worried this thing is shut in indefinitely lol. I will pry it open with a flat screwdriver then.
EDIT: Alright, I'm pretty happy to say that I'm posting this from my PC!
212 arrived and installed. Installation was a bit complicated for my liking due to me having the keep the backpanel support thing in it's place using my own hand, but it is what it is. Applied some paste, put the thing in (removed the plastic cover, of course), screwed it firmly in place and it's all set and done. Only worrying thing is that the fan is so big it makes using the A1 RAM socket impossible, but that shouldn't be the case (cuz I'll be using B2 next time I buy some more). I was also worried the whole thing wouldn't fit in my casing, but it's all good with some distance to spare, not a lot but it's good.
PC booted like a champ, no Fan Speed Error, no weird thing. Directly to Windows. Checked temps and it's hovering about 20C. It's also very quiet. Too many colors for my liking, but this is what it is nowadays.
I followed a guy who shows you how to install it on YouTube and his model came with a controller and a plug for the RGB, but mine didn't. Not that I care too much about it, I think RBGs are controlled through a program.
As for the pump, I'll be cleaning it and putting it in it's actual package. Don't know what to do with it. Can I repurpose it's fans? Looks like I can't but I could use an extra one now.
So I think that wraps it up! I'm happy to get this thing working, will do some more testing as I come home after work like playing video games and such. I'm also super happy to have 16gb of RAM once again...! Will try to buy an extra 16gb stick to get this thing properly working. It doesn't sound like a lot but I've been struggling with just 8GB for years now, so it is!
And of course, many thanks comrade. Without your help I would have been clueless and desperate.
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Happy to help and I'm glad you got it working!
If you do end up wanting to use that A1 ram slot, you might be able to scoot the fan up a little bit on the 212's heatsink to clear it. 32GB should be plenty though.
When you do buy a second 16GB ram stick for B2, you want it matched as closely as possible to the one you have. Ideally the same brand, model, speed.
You can totally reuse those fans from the radiator. PC fans come in standard sizes with standard plugs. You can put them back in the front of the case where they were just without the radiator and plug them into the motherboard's chassis fan ports. Radiator fans generally have blades optimized for static pressure instead of airflow but they're absolutely better than not having front fans.
Forget everything I said. It's the Motherboard. I've had it again.
I turned it off before going to work, when I came back around midnight I was hoping for some fun. But I knew something was off, something was not right. I know I changed the cooler for a new one and got rid of the pump, but something about the RAM was making a lot of noise inside me.
There is no pump now, and the POST thing flashes an orange light, indicating a RAM issue. Stick is installed on A2.
Desperately googled for a solution, found a guy who runs a very similar setup as mine with the same issue, and he said the system would boot normally if the RAM stick occupies the B2 slot. So I changed it to B2, started it but shut down immediately only to start and boot to Windows again. The Motherboard is fucked, it has been fucked for years and now I know for real.
Not gonna say I regret my RAM and Cooler purchases, because these two hold good value for the future.. and the pump was fucked because otherwise I shouldn't have gotten a CPU Temperature Error. But fuck me, I didn't want this. To make it worse the dude who had this issue had his Maximux IX Hero replaced with a new one and he had the same issue. I feel robbed, I can't even ask for a refund at all lol.
Fuck me. Tell me one good reliable Motherboard that is DDR4 friendly and has the same CPU socket as this one. I need something that works and does its job well, not this piece of garbage whose RAM sockets lasted for two years top.
I'm going to start moving all the shit I want to save to my second drive, a 2TB HDD which is used only for storage, that way if needed I can format my Windows-installed M.2. I do have a spare non used SSD which I bought two years ago to keep it as a reserve. If I change my Mobo to a new one, I have to format my main disk.. however, can I put in the blank SSD, install Windows on it, make the M.2 "it's slave" and access it from the SSD?
My advice earlier was that there's really no good way to get a reliable motherboard for a reasonable price for a socket/chipset that old and you should be looking at a newer CPU/motherboard combo, but I've been looking at that site you linked for the cooler, and it seems like the rare upshot of your fucked electronics market is that super old motherboards are still available. What you're going to want to go with a 7700k is a Z270 board. I personally have had good reliability from my Gigabyte Z270X Ultra Gaming which I've been running without issues since about 2017.
Alright, thanks for the advice. Now that I've calmed down a little knowing that I can boot my system by using the B2 slot, I have some time to think and work. I will do the following: Check on the CPU pins once again tomorrow and see if I can spot a bent one I must have missed on the first time, I will use a magnifier this time to see better. I will reseat the CPU evenly, so that it all comes down at the same time. I will do the same with the cooler, reseat it as evenly as possible and try not to force the screws too much. I've been reading a lot of people who complain some of their DIMM sockets don't work and every time the first answer they get is to check on the CPU for bent pins or poorly seated CPU/Coolers, they will cause memory issues. Here's an example, same board model, almost same general setup and pretty much same issue.
If this is not solved this way, I'll look into fully replacing my motherboard then. I have seen this Z270, it doesn't say if it's used and if so, how many years and in what capacity, and it appears it's about to be sold to some guy. There's also a Maximus X Hero that is a bit cheaper than the Z270-P with "6 months of use", but yeah, I could be getting into the same issue. There's this Asus Prime Z370 which doesn't have awful pricing , it just says it's "in perfect state and functioning" but it doesn't include some metal backpanel for the casing, don't know how bad is that. And that's it, basically, for now at least. The issue with most motherboards is that they're sold in "combos" alongside RAM and CPUs, which completely skyrockets it's price. You can try to negotiate for the board separately but sellers don't like that.
I'll keep looking.
The best way to spot a bent pin is to put the board under the light so you can see the reflection on all the pins and look for one that's not shining like the others. The best way to fasten down a CPU cooler is to tighten each screw a bit at a time in an x pattern rather than to crank down one corner at a time.
The Z370 is not compatible with the 7700K, even though it's LGA1151.
Roger that, will do as you said. I did said I struggled a bit with the cooler installation, I don't have those standoff screws which I think are used to hold the base support in place (that goes on the back), something the pump had, so I had to hold it with my hand. Maybe I did messed up during the installation and the whole thing is uneven, working but uneven. Or maybe the whole board is messed up and I'm just coping lol. We'll see tomorrow.
The 7000 series of Intel processors is only compatible with the 200 series of Intel chipsets, or possibly some of the 100 series with BIOS updates which might require a 6000 series processor to run. This details the three chipset generations which use the LGA1151 socket, and which processors each is compatible with. Skylake means 6000 series, Kaby Lake means 7000, and Coffee Lake means 8000.
Damn, I certainly did not know any of that. Motherboards are a very weak point of mine, like I can't tell the difference between my model and newer models apart from like DDR4 or DDR5. Jeez, one really needs to appreciate people who really know about this stuff. I would be completely clueless if left alone.
Done some work. Took the cooler and CPU off, cleaned the thermal paste from it (it seems that I have applied a bit too much of it and some of it leaked to the side, but I understand this isn't a massive issue because it isn't conductive). None of it fell into the socket, though, which saved me a lot of trouble. I did, accidentally, got some thermal paste underneath my i7. So I went to look for some videos on how to properly clean off thermal paste, I found this one to be pretty useful as the guy makes a whole mess out of it and cleans it (even though it's not intel). So I used some alcohol, a toothbrush and began to clean off the thing very carefully, I didn't have some of these blue wipes so I used soft paper tissue, I hope this doesn't bring me any issues. Regardless of this, I didn't notice any bent pins.. I placed it under a light and used a magnifier to look for the little bugger but there was nothing.
I reseated the cooler afterwards using the method you recommended, put the RAM into the A2 socket and it booted, first telling me that a new CPU was installed. Now it appears to be fine, but I don't know. Earlier today it failed to boot even at B2 which did boot yesterday.
We shall see, it will remain under observation. I truly hope this is just a case of badly seated CPU+Cooler, maybe the guy who built it first didn't seat both things properly (after all, the pump was connected to the wrong pins and he told me replacing the liquid wasn't necessary), maybe when I replaced the Pump I failed to seat the cooler like it should. I will hold my breath for now.
I will continue to look for new ~~old~~ boards regardless, I will ask around my friends if they know about any offers. If I can't find a good Z270 I'll make an offer to the guy that sells the Maximus X Hero, we will see.
Yeah, it's hard to be sure you've actually fixed a problem that only shows up intermittently. Just gotta be patient and keep testing.
Thermal paste is nonconductive, it's fine for some to gloop out the sides as long as it doesn't get down into the socket. The reason for the blue towels is that they don't leave as much lint as regular paper towels but as long as you make sure it's clean no problem.
Maximus x hero is also incompatible z370 I think.
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