Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are two in the room: I and Lenin- a photograph on the whiteness of wall. The stubble slides upward above his lip as his mouth jerks open in speech. The tense creases of brow hold thought in their...

how can one negotiate with these beasts?

Simple answer is, you can't.

blindpig wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:30 pm

listened to the first 5 minutes of this, seems pretty good, tho the narrator should speak up.

Good video.

Putin would give these people over to the Nazis....

Indeed, he would love to throw them in jail, himself...

Maoists can sometime remind you of Trots, but from a different direction. The problem as always is standpoint. Where do you get the best view of what is happening? Multiple sources, nuanced interpretations, wait and see, benefit of the doubt - it all must go into the mix. Becoming strident doesn't h...

When these writers talk about “main modes of production” they are recognising that within these main modes there have been variations — quite considerable ones — and that between these main modes there have been transitional forms. If we read Engels and if we study real history, we see that class s...

Weep, O my black beloved brother deep buried in eternal, bestial night. O you, whose dust simooms and hurricanes have scattered all over the vast earth, You, by whose hands the pyramids were reared In memory of royal murderers, You, rounded up in raids; you, countless times defeated In all the battl...

Excellent piece!

Does all of this make us 'romantics'? Sounds like it. I have to think about this for a while. Yes, it does not sit well. But it's a pretty strong argument: you can't have socialism while the imperialists can have power over ya. And that's what it appears the Chinese are doing, beating back imperial...