Saturday, October 29, 2016

An Impossible Situation

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"The Good Person of Setzuan,” by Bertolt Brecht.  Frank Theatre Premiere, October 28, 2016  (Directed by Wendy Knox, adapted by Tony K...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The ‘Harmonious Society’?

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"China On Strike – Narratives of Workers’ Resistance,” edited by Hao Ren, Zohgjin Li and Eli Friedman If Friedrich Engels was writ...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Who is Lester Nygaard?

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“Fargo,” HBO, Season One I guess ‘binge watching’ really is a thing.   It occupies the time of many workers, not just kids or college s...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Religion Scores Again

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Female Genital Mutilation  (FGM) II I am following up on a previous post on this brutal practice directed against women mostly in the g...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Mao Holds Up Half the Sky

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“Maoism & the Chinese Revolution, a Critical Introduction,” by Elliot Liu, 2016 Liu is a council communist who has written a short ...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

The Real Thing

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"Night Shift – 270 Factory Stories,” by David Macaray, 2015 This entertaining book can be read in chunks, which makes it easy rea...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

The Deplorables

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The Only Political Question that Matters? You can’t avoid it.   The presidential election.   Everywhere you turn on the media, endless ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

The Kitchen Sink

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"The Heart Goes Last,” by Margaret Atwood This is a book with so many angles that it is not really clear what it is about.   The b...