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“¡Que viva Mexico!” Eisenstein in North America (1931)
For anyone who’s interested in this sort of thing, Experimental Cinema was basically an organ of Soviet avant-garde movie-making published in English. It includes articles written by Sergei...
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László Moholy-Nagy and his vision
. You can download the 1969 translation of László Moholy-Nagy’s Painting, Photography, Film (1927) by clicking on the embedded link. A while ago I posted some of Moholy’s work, but this is much more...
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Weekend at Bernie’s: On Sanders 2016
. Two articles I’m reposting here. Both concern the Bernie Sanders campaign. One, written by Jake Verso, specifically focuses on US politics. It also provides some historical context, mentioning past...
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Ivan Leonidov: Artist, dreamer, poet
Andrei Gozak Complete Works January 1988 . The greatest poet is not the one who wrote best but the one who suggested most. — Walt Whitman . Since he first emerged on the architectural scene in the...
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The missing category of totality
. Feminist Fightback, an activist collective based in the UK, published an article several months back which asks: “Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?” Recently the piece was...
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Hannes Meyer, The new world [Die neue Welt] (1926)
. The flight of the “Norge” to the North pole, the Zeiss planetarium at Jena and Flettner’s rotor ship represent the latest stages to be reported in the mechanization of our planet. Being the outcome...
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Trotsky and the Frankfurt School
Helmut Dahmer Platypus Review October 1, 2015 . Disrespect for a reality that demands adoration as if it were a god is the religion of those, who in today’s Europe under the ‘Iron Heel’ risk their life...
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Wolfgang Pohrt on the radical left and national liberation
. . . From: Wolfgang Pohrt, “Linksradikalismus und nationaler Befreiungskampf” (1982), collected in the book Kreisverkehr, Wendepunkt: Über die Wechseljahre der Nation und die Linke im Widerstreit der...
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Юлий Мартов, «Религия и марксизм» (1909)
. The following article on “Religion and Marxism” was written by Iulii Martov, one of the leading Mensheviks (along with Georgii Plekhanov). It was published in the journal On the Brink in 1909, and...
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Federici versus Marx
Gilles Dauvé Troploin Fall 2015 . . .. Note: Dauvé’s piece is not without its problems. Some lines are simply offensive — e.g., “Federici feminizes Marxism; that’s probably what has made her popular,”...
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Walter Benjamin’s writings in German and in English
. Besides studying Soviet history, reading Walter Benjamin was what got me hooked on all this commie crap. It was probably “On the Concept of History” that first did it. Enigmatic, baffling, simple yet...
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Althusser’s reading of Marx in the eyes of three of his contemporaries:...
. It has been fifty years since the publication of Louis Althusser’s influential collaboration with his students, Reading Capital. Verso has already announced that it will be publishing, for the first...
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Religion and revolution: Robespierre’s cult of the Supreme Being
A response to Harrison Fluss . . Originally published by the Communist League Tampa . In a recent article written for Jacobin, Harrison Fluss revisits the civic religion of the Supreme Being enshrined...
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Louis Lozowick, communist lithographer (1892-1973)
. A few years back the excellent art and architecture website SOCKS Studio made a post featuring “The diesel era lithographs of Louis Lozowick, 1920s-1940s.” They included some of his biographical...
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“¡Que viva Mexico!” Eisenstein in North America (1931)
For anyone who’s interested in this sort of thing, Experimental Cinema was basically an organ of Soviet avant-garde movie-making published in English. It includes articles written by Sergei...
View ArticleClik here to view.
László Moholy-Nagy and his vision
. You can download the 1969 translation of László Moholy-Nagy’s Painting, Photography, Film (1927) by clicking on the embedded link. A while ago I posted some of Moholy’s work, but this is much more...
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Weekend at Bernie’s: On Sanders 2016
. Two articles I’m reposting here. Both concern the Bernie Sanders campaign. One, written by Jake Verso, specifically focuses on US politics. It also provides some historical context, mentioning past...
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Ivan Leonidov: Artist, dreamer, poet
Andrei Gozak Complete Works January 1988 . The greatest poet is not the one who wrote best but the one who suggested most. — Walt Whitman . Since he first emerged on the architectural scene in the...
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The missing category of totality
. Feminist Fightback, an activist collective based in the UK, published an article several months back which asks: “Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?” Recently the piece was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hannes Meyer, The new world [Die neue Welt] (1926)
. The flight of the “Norge” to the North pole, the Zeiss planetarium at Jena and Flettner’s rotor ship represent the latest stages to be reported in the mechanization of our planet. Being the outcome...
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