Monday, May 23, 2011

Malcolm X Lives

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“Malcolm X – A Life of Reinvention,” by Manning Marable, 2011 Manning Marable’s last book corrects some of the inadequacies of the “ Autob...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Zizek Says: Wage Theoretical Class War Now!

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“F irst as Tragedy, Then as Farce,” Slavoj Zizek, 2009   This is one of Zizek’s shorter books - he goes light on the Lacan/Freud and the ...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Another God That Failed

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"Death of the Liberal Class"  – Chris Hedges, 2010 Met a real Democratic Party ‘liberal’ lately? Do you think they care about pov...
Monday, April 11, 2011

The Play! See It Before Its Over:

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“Oil! & The Jungle,” adapted from Upton Sinclair, directed by Kym Longhi and Karla Grotting, 2011 Theater in Minneapolis is mostly middl...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

“Freedom’s just another word ...” for wasting time

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“Freedom – A Novel,” by Jonathan Franzen, 2010 Reviewers gushed over it – Updike, Thomas Mann, Tolstoy! Book clubs, on-line and off, made i...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Gaia II

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“ Planning Green Growth – a Socialist Contribution to the Debate on Environmental Sustainability,” by Pete Dickenson, Socialist Alterna...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

A Word suggested by William Golding ...

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“The Vanishing Face of Gaia - A Final Warning” by James Lovelock, 2008 James Lovelock is a scientist famous for inventing the apparatus that...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

“The John Brown of Mississippi”

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“The State of Jones – The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy,” by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, 2010 1862. Starving...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Economics, Smeckanomics, What about the Oscars?

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“Zombie Capitalism – Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx,” by Chris Harman, 2009 Like Zizek’s book about the ‘ End Times ’ (reviewed bel...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A Response to the “High Priests of Modern Economic Quackery"

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“Global Slump – The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance,” by David McNally, 2011 The recent crisis in capital has brought forth ...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Fate of Fascism

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“Enemy at the Gates,” by William Craig (2000) In 2001, ‘ Enemy at the Gates ’ was made into a film focused on the Soviet sniper Vassili Ziat...
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