Tag Archives: alexandra sokolovskaya

a marxist built for 2

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alain Badiou, alexandra sokolovskaya, Andre Breton, Diego Rivera, franz shivigovsky, Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Service, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

orational arts: convincing the young turks of legitimacy

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

trotsky between kitsch and killing

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dave

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 →