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Margaret Bourke-White in the USSR, 1931
. Margaret Bourke-White was one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, and certainly one of my personal favorites. Early in her career she was granted access to the rooftop of the...
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Lenin and David Bowie
. David Bowie has died. In tribute, I’m posting some portions of the second chapter of Agata Pyzik’s excellent book Poor but Sexy, which I reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books about a year ago....
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From James Joyce to Howdy Doody: Deconstruction and deindustrialization after...
. Loren Goldner was an angry island of Marxian critique surrounded in the 1980s and 1990s by a sea of poststructuralist and postcolonial hogshit. Even ostensibly Marxist parties like...
View ArticlePolitics of affirmation or politics of negation?
Joseph Kay Libcom.org Nov. 2008 . . Below you can read Joseph Kay’s excellent 2008 post on affirmation, negation, and identity. Many of the themes I touched on in my last post are covered here as well,...
View ArticleThe Marxism of Wilhelm Reich
Or, the social function of sexual repression Bertell Ollman Social and Sexual Revolution (1979) . I . “Just as Marxism was sociologically the expression of man’s becoming conscious of the laws of...
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Revisionism revisited: Ernst Nolte and Domenico Losurdo on the age of extremes
. “Revisionism” — Revisionismus, révisionnisme, ревизионизм — is a word of relatively recent vintage. Most etymologies date its origin to around 1903, when the revisionist dispute befell German Social...
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The nihilism of socialism
Robert Rives La Monte Socialism: Positive and Negative (NYC: 1908) . Introduction . For a while now I’ve been contemplating writing an essay on “proletarian nihilism.” By this I don’t mean the...
View ArticleClass, segmentation, racialization: Reading notes
Théorie Communiste Lucha No Feik Club (October 26, 2016) . . Editorial note . Originally published by Théorie Communiste as «Classe/segmentation/racisation. Notes». Translated from the...
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Early Soviet children’s books, 1924-1932
. The Young Polytechnician: Housing (1931) Out with bourgeois crocodiles! How the Soviets rewrote children’s books Stuart Jeffries The Guardian May 4, 2016 . . In 1925, Galina and Olga Chichagova...
View ArticleInsurgent Notes conference at CUNY Grad Center, Sunday (2.5.17)
. Reposting here the original open call issued by Insurgent Notes back in January, along with the updated agenda schedule they just released. I’m planning to attend, along with a bunch of...
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Mihály Biró, 1886-1948
Budapest native Mihály Biró (1886-1948) joined the Social Democratic cause early in life. He spent the period between 1910 and 1914, designing striking and widely noted posters and...
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Leon Trotsky, “demon” of the revolution
. Comrades, we love the sun that gives us light, but if the rich and the aggressors were to try to monopolize the sun, we should say: “Let the sun be extinguished, let darkness reign, eternal...
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Seventy-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Yesterday marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Below you can download a number of histories and firsthand accounts of the revolt, and below that read an article Marcus...
View ArticleHillel Ticktin’s contributions to Marxist theory
South African Trotskyist Hillel Ticktin first made a name for himself in the 1970s and 1980s, with a groundbreaking reexamination of the political economy of the USSR. Much of his work has been...
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Marx still haunts capitalism two hundred years on
“The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day.” — Marx to Engels, 1867 Indeed, it would seem they haven’t forgotten him. Over the last few weeks, major bourgeois news outlets have...
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