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divine claims from the secular spirits
Guides for the perplexed? The narcissism of small differences? Christopher Hitchens did write a book called Be Prepared for the Worst. So, even in an atheist like Hitchens there is a little ping somewhere. There is a famous quote by … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaim Soutine, chaim weizmann, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, e.p. sanders, isaac deutscher, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, mother teresa, Pablo Picasso, rabbi pinchas scheinberg, Rosa Luxemburg
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trotsky: the jargon of the trojan horse?
It was all the young, impatient, implacable todays since the beginning of time shouting down the tired, timid old yesterdays… Trotsky was still in exile in New York when the March Revolution overthrew the czarist regime in 1917. He rushed … Continue reading
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Tagged aleksandr galich, alexander rodchenko, elena bonner, isaac deutscher, jamie glazov, john brownlee, kerensky, lazar kaganovich, Lenin, Leon Trotsky, nikolai yezhov, Rosa Luxemburg, sahkarov, soviet poster art, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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a very red riding in the hood
The element of heroic myth in Leon Trotsky’s career was no less marked during the Russian Civil War, when as the Soviet Commisar for War he lived for more than two years in his famous armored train, dashing from one … Continue reading
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Tagged el lissitzky, isaac deutscher, Leon Trotsky, Solzenitsyn, Solzhenitysn
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orational arts: convincing the young turks of legitimacy
Thebeginning of the twentieth century in Russia saw Trotsky spending two years in various prisons before being sentenced to exile in Siberia. After another two years he escaped, getting away from Siberia on a false passport, in which he had … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alexandra sokolovskaya, bertrand patenaude, isaac deutscher, joseph heath, jurgen habermas, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Marxism, peter taaffe, Robert Capa, Sergei Eisenstein, sergei eisenstein october, tariq ali trotsky, Thorstein Veblen
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trotsky between kitsch and killing
Is Leon Trotsky relevant today? There is a continuing fascination with American “cultural Trotskyism” , a kind of aesthetic elitism in contradiction with the masses of “unwashed” it is to lead. Almost a pathological hatred toward the peasant and an … Continue reading
the ballad of trotsky: revolution of disavowal
There was a rise, there was a fall. Though a Stalinist secret agent, Raymond Mercader, drove a pickaxe through his brain, the theories of communism were remarkably not consigned to the scrapheap of history as had been assumed. Trotsky always … Continue reading
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Tagged alain krivine, alan Brien, Andrew Potter, brian beedham, Frida Kahlo, isaac deutscher, jacob tierney, joseph heath, Leon Trotsky, martin morrow cbc, paul kellogg, peter taaffe, Slavoj Zizek, tariq ali trotsky, ted grant
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1984…sweeping away the stark absolutes of individual character
George Orwell had lost the power to believe. Who could blame him? The original reviews of George Orwell’s 1984 seemed to justify the complaints of Trotskyites such as Isaac Deutscher, who saw the American press run with the common gambit … Continue reading
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Tagged ai weiwei, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, isaac deutscher, John Bennett, Jonah Raskin, Leon Trotsky, mike wallace, robert hatch, The Pedestrian Project, Yue Minjun, Zhong Biao, Zhong Xiaogang
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