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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
sinking feeling
To Marxists, capitalisms imminent sinking was symbolic in the Titanic. A hundred years later the Commies fell into a pit and capitalism is still around; heavily flawed and perhaps redeemable if the global plutocracy can be dismembered. Oh yeah, that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kirsch, Alain Badiou, Andy Warhol, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Guy Debord, Jacques Lacan, James Cameron, James Cameron Titanic, Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slavoj Zizek, Titanic 100th anniversary
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diverting the flow of history
Just another new state; the least racial, the least religious, the least nationalistic of all states. The most universal of them all. The Martin Buber idea, his model of Israel as a template for a global revolution to change, read … Continue reading
carry that weight
We are haunted by ghosts of the past, and the manner in which we deal with them either seems irrelevant and non-meaningful or they are invoked, insidiously, appropriating the theme of malevolence in an act of resurrection that is ultimately … Continue reading
proceeding by learned recollection
Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading
innovation or commodification
Do product patents reduce economic efficiency and cut back on technological innovation? Do the have-nots become more naught? Are free-markets just a catch-work for the elimination of job security? And what of our naive assumptions that technological solutions to political … Continue reading
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