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wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
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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
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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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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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