Sunday, April 30, 2017

There's a man with a gun over there... telling me I've got to beware...

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The Ultra-Right Monthly Review , a Marxist magazine, has called the present situation ‘pre-fascist.’   That might not be quite accurate...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

The First "What Is To Be Done"

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“What Is To Be Done?” by Nikolai Chernyshevsky, 1863 To celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in November 1917,...
Friday, April 14, 2017

The Pirate Lenin

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“Black Sails,” Starz TV, Seasons 1-4, 2014-2017 Pirates usually get the corny clichéd treatment, as if Robert Lewis Stevenson was still...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Matrix is Real

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“Shrinking the Technosphere – Getting a Grip on the Technologies that Limit Our Autonomy, Self-Sufficiency and Freedom,” by Dimitry Orlov, ...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Independent With Sheep

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“Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness, 1946 This book won the Nobel Prize for Literature back when and is probably unknown to most. ...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Art-House Uprising

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“The Age of Uprising – the Legend of Michel Kholhaas” film directed by Arnaud de Pallieres, 2013 This French-German film is about a rid...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Horatio Alger Kicks Down

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“Hillbilly Elegy – a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” by J.D. Vance This book is a memoir of a still young man about his life...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Managed Chaos

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“The Death of the Nation – and the Future of the Arab Revolution,” by Vijay Prashad, 2016. Prashad is a leftist historian and journalis...