It’s as if John Reed, author of the classic piece of revolutionary journalism, Ten Days That Shook the World, woke from a decades-long sleep to tell the story of 1917 once again. Although there is less personal detail, the sweep of MiĆ©ville’s story is equal to Reed’s in its breadth while matching it in passion. It is Reed’s contention that the masses of workers, peasants and soldiers were at the front of the revolution. One hundred years later, MiĆ©ville’s telling agrees.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/27/one-hundred-years-that-shook-the-world/
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label Lenin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lenin. Show all posts
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Friday, February 3, 2017
Trumpism's Gleichschaltung?
As far as Bannon is concerned, a better comparison would be this: Steven Bannon is to Donald Trump what Josef Goebbels was to Hitler.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/trumpisms-gleichschaltung/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/03/trumpisms-gleichschaltung/
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