Sunday, June 19, 2011

Have you Forgotten Your Roots?

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"In and Out of the Working Class," Michael D Yates, 2009 Yates is a well-known left economist in the U.S., one of only two Mar...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Poverty of Philosophy

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Film: “Tree of Life” – Terrence Malick, 2011 Malick is one of these American film auteurs that is somewhat of a hidden legend, like JD Salin...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Poetic Fact

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North Star Country,” by Meridel Le Sueur, written 1945, 1998 Edition Sometime C.P. author Meridel Le Sueur, our female Whitman, our prose Ca...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Place is the Thing

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“In Search of the Blues,” Marybeth Hamilton, 2008 T his professorial work by a former punk girl from LA sets out to debunk the idea of the...
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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