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the shovels are ready: funeral time

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Dave

It didn’t take Nate Silver to inform our electoral sensibilities that the Republicans would get their asses wiped. Or as Bob Dylan once sang, “I don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” Lame candidates, too … Continue reading →

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trotsky: radical in a country of last things

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Dave

While in prison in awaiting trial, and a new deportation and a new escape abroad, Trotsky in 1905 wrote a pamphlet outlining a radical, and to some heretical, innovation in Marxist doctrine: the theory of the Permanent Revolution, which became … Continue reading →