Tag Archives: Leon Trotsky

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 →

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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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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 →

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talkin’ bout’ a revolution

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dave

How does one explain the enduring legacy of Leon Trotsky? Was it the precient social and political prognosis? The understanding of the forces and dynamic of fascism? Do his admirer’s uphold Trotsky for what he was or for the ideas … Continue reading →

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the ballad of trotsky: revolution of disavowal

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Dave

There was a rise, there was a fall. Though a Stalinist secret agent, Raymond Mercader, drove a pickaxe through his brain, the theories of communism were remarkably not consigned to the scrapheap of history as had been assumed. Trotsky always … Continue reading →

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kahlo: sensuous transmutation and visionary longing

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dave

Undaunted. Defiant. Frida Kahlo is the textbook case of suffering for her art and transforming that suffering into art. Still, after all these years, her reputation seems to absorb new strands of thought which only augment the interest and intrigue … Continue reading →

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watering the weeds

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dave

The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading →

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mural mural on the wall…

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dave

Can street art murals be simply too hot to handle for the public to view? Are the public funds and corporate subsidies often used to produce it any more disreputable than the same norms that permit corporations to peddle much … Continue reading →

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$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Dave

There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading →

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1984…sweeping away the stark absolutes of individual character

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Dave

George Orwell had lost the power to believe. Who could blame him? The original reviews of George Orwell’s 1984 seemed to justify the complaints of Trotskyites such as Isaac Deutscher, who saw the American press run with the common gambit … Continue reading →