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lenin: vices of spontaneity and softness
…Lenin came to exercise enormous control over his emotions. He spurned all signs of softness and spontaneity. Even his marriage was a “revolutionary” one to a fellow conspirator… The second incident illustrating Lenin’s denial of libidinal feelings involves his reaction … Continue reading
What exactly was a cold war?
When and where did it begin? Why? Who started it and could it have been avoided? …Although its history is vast and complex, the Cold War was essentially a struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dean Acheson, Gar Alperovitz, Henry Roberts Russian Institute Columbia, Joseph M. Jones, Joseph M. Jones The Fifteen Weeks, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, The Cold War, Truman Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson
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terrorism: feeding the resentment
…Every act of terrorism begins, in the eyes of its practitioners, as an instance of counterterrorism. The most murderous cases of terrorism in this century have ostensibly been counterterroristic measures by the police in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany; and … Continue reading
terror: therapeutic or not
…Of course, certain trends of modern society and certain currents of modern thought have contributed more directly than others to shaping the patterns of modern terrorism. Frantz Fanon’s concept of therapeutic violence- aggravated by Sartre’s embroideries on the theme, as … Continue reading
cargo cult: the steady state
The millenarian movement, and its stages that apply virtually without exception to those throughout history and around the world was first most artfully articulated Anthony F.C. Wallace who found that movements “always originate in situations of social and cultural stress … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony F.C. Wallace anthropologist, boris pasternak, David Lean, Ghost Dance Wovoka, James Mooney anthropologist, Julie Christie, Lenin Communist Manifesto, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, Marx and Engels, omar sharif, Philleo Nash, Sergei Eisenstein, The Code of Handsome Lake, Tito Yugoslavia
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ode to whiskey
…it would I suppose, be unfait to pass judgement on whiskey and its consumers without hearing a defense of some sort. But what defense can their be? What would the articulate whiskey drinker hoarsely mutter? Something like this perhaps: “Whiskey … Continue reading
leon trotsky: hipster
Member of the rat pack. The poster is almost ninety years old and does evoke a Trotsky as a sort of hipster of the digital age; rappy, street savvy, beat box man who bears a smattering of resemblance to Sammy … Continue reading
a marxist built for 2
Trotsky in love. Whatever his initial motivations, Bronstein’s revolutionary career began under appropriately romantic auspices. He was introduced by school friends into a radical discussion group conducted by a self-educated Czech gardener named Franz Shvigovsky. Though the group’s subversive activities … Continue reading
the big lie
The new exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is a look at Soviet poster art , propaganda posters, from the 1940’s. Its a voyage back to Orwell and 1984. But, a closer examination, of Orwell, would show that 1984 … Continue reading
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Tagged “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945.”, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Art Institute of Chicago, eve m. kahn, George Orwell, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky, soviet propaganda posters, Theodor Adorno, viktor deni, Walter Lippmann
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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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