Tag Archives: Lenin

the state of the better

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Dave

Property, according to Oscar Wilde has such dreary duties that it constitutes and endless bore. It is unbearable and prevents the full flowering of individualism. Property then, in the interest of the rich said Wilde, must be gotten rid of. … Continue reading →

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trotsky: the jargon of the trojan horse?

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Dave

It was all the young, impatient, implacable todays since the beginning of time shouting down the tired, timid old yesterdays… Trotsky was still in exile in New York when the March Revolution overthrew the czarist regime in 1917. He rushed … 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 →

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dada chess: logic vs. transcendence

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Dave

Lenin’s chance meeting with dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 was ostensibly arranged to play chess. Was there something in Dada that piqued the revolutionary passions? Or was it a case of a parallax gap; two points between which no connection, … Continue reading →

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8 hours 8 HourS 8 HOuRs

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Art

Property. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. The wild days of May. Is today’s May Day violence a simple mimicry of revolution, colorful pageants of class warfare, or are they forces lurking that question … Continue reading →

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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Dave

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading →