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The great Polish Marxist and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born 150 years ago today. In honor of her life and legacy, I thought I’d post some of her works and texts about her along with an introduction to her 1918 polemic The Russian Revolution by Onorato Damen.. Luxemburg was a heroic, larger than life figure, a champion of the working class dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist LAZAR KHIDEKEL’S AERIAL CITY OF THE FUTURE (1925-1932 Over the second half of the twenties, Khidekel became obsessed with the idea of a flying city. Georgii Krutikov’s proposal for a “Flying City” may be more famous, but Khidekel’s fantastic renderings are also worth taking a look at. Recently I came across a cache of images stored on one of my favorite Russian-language websites, Togda Zine, a repository of the heroic Soviet avant-garde. METAPHYSICAL THEATER The transformation of the human body, its metamorphosis, is made possible by the costume, the disguise.Costume and mask emphasize the body’s identity or they change it; they express its nature or they are purposely misleading about it; they stress its conformity to organic or mechanical laws or they invalidate this conformity. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION—1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz,and William A. Pelz
GRAHAM GREENE’S INFAMOUS REVIEW OF WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937 Shirley Temple passed away a little over a week ago. Now that some time has gone by, though, I thought I would take this opportunity to repost a hilarious 1937 review written by Graham Greene of her movie Wee Willie Winkie.Greene, one of the great British authors of the twentieth century — and there were many — wrote with such searing cynicism and shocking innuendo that Temple’s LEFEBVRE - THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE Envoi Imprisoned by four walls (to the North, the crystal of non-knowledge a landscape to be invented 10 the South, reflective memory to the East, the mirror to the West, stone and the song of silence) I wrote messages, but received no reply. Octavia Paz CAPITALISM AND BOURGEOISIE: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE The magic and necromancy of commodity production. Goethe’s famous 1797 ballad Der Zauberlehrling provides probably the best allegory for Marx’s own conception of capitalism, which he memorably described as partaking of a kind of sorcery — “the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities.” INDUSTRIALISM AND THE GENESIS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Taylorism, as a science of the mechanics of movement and a means for the optimization of productivity, exerted huge influence over the modernists in architecture. Moreover, the broader cult of the machine and of the engineer in particular provided the avant-garde with a AN AMERICAN UTOPIA DUAL POWER AND THE UNIVERSAL ARMY an american utopia dual power and the universal army fredric jameson, jodi dean, saroj girl, agon hamza, kojin karatani, kim stanley robinson, frank ruda, alberto CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE JEWISH NATION viii Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation and footnotes, is reproduced here by permission of the successor of the Young Poale Zion Alliance, the Ichud Habonim Labor Zionist YouthTHE CHARNEL-HOUSE
The great Polish Marxist and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born 150 years ago today. In honor of her life and legacy, I thought I’d post some of her works and texts about her along with an introduction to her 1918 polemic The Russian Revolution by Onorato Damen.. Luxemburg was a heroic, larger than life figure, a champion of the working class dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist LAZAR KHIDEKEL’S AERIAL CITY OF THE FUTURE (1925-1932 Over the second half of the twenties, Khidekel became obsessed with the idea of a flying city. Georgii Krutikov’s proposal for a “Flying City” may be more famous, but Khidekel’s fantastic renderings are also worth taking a look at. Recently I came across a cache of images stored on one of my favorite Russian-language websites, Togda Zine, a repository of the heroic Soviet avant-garde. METAPHYSICAL THEATER The transformation of the human body, its metamorphosis, is made possible by the costume, the disguise.Costume and mask emphasize the body’s identity or they change it; they express its nature or they are purposely misleading about it; they stress its conformity to organic or mechanical laws or they invalidate this conformity. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION—1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz,and William A. Pelz
GRAHAM GREENE’S INFAMOUS REVIEW OF WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937 Shirley Temple passed away a little over a week ago. Now that some time has gone by, though, I thought I would take this opportunity to repost a hilarious 1937 review written by Graham Greene of her movie Wee Willie Winkie.Greene, one of the great British authors of the twentieth century — and there were many — wrote with such searing cynicism and shocking innuendo that Temple’s LEFEBVRE - THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE Envoi Imprisoned by four walls (to the North, the crystal of non-knowledge a landscape to be invented 10 the South, reflective memory to the East, the mirror to the West, stone and the song of silence) I wrote messages, but received no reply. Octavia Paz CAPITALISM AND BOURGEOISIE: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE The magic and necromancy of commodity production. Goethe’s famous 1797 ballad Der Zauberlehrling provides probably the best allegory for Marx’s own conception of capitalism, which he memorably described as partaking of a kind of sorcery — “the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities.” INDUSTRIALISM AND THE GENESIS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Taylorism, as a science of the mechanics of movement and a means for the optimization of productivity, exerted huge influence over the modernists in architecture. Moreover, the broader cult of the machine and of the engineer in particular provided the avant-garde with a AN AMERICAN UTOPIA DUAL POWER AND THE UNIVERSAL ARMY an american utopia dual power and the universal army fredric jameson, jodi dean, saroj girl, agon hamza, kojin karatani, kim stanley robinson, frank ruda, alberto CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE JEWISH NATION viii Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation and footnotes, is reproduced here by permission of the successor of the Young Poale Zion Alliance, the Ichud Habonim Labor Zionist Youth VKHUTEMAS | THE CHARNEL-HOUSE He spent most of his childhood in Vitebsk, leaving school at the age of eleven to work in a small watchmaking workshop. From 1917 to 1919, Chashnik studied art with the local artist Iurii (Yehuda) Pen before moving to Moscow in 1919 to attend the newly-opened VKhUTEMAS . THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION—1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz,and William A. Pelz
ALFRED BÄUMLER
West Berlin, 1982. . Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 – 24 November 1986) was an Italian scholar of Germanistics. A native of Lucca, he became regarded as one of the most distinguished researchers on Friedrich Nietzsche, and harshly criticized the edition of The Will to Power, which he regarded as a forgery, in his book The Will to PowerDoes
LE CORBUSIER’S “CONTEMPORARY CITY” (1925) Le Corbusier’s “contemporary city” (1925) Posted by Ross Wolfe. 5. . The existing congestion in the center must be eliminated. The use of technical analysis and architectural synthesis enabled me to draw up my scheme for a contemporary city of three million inhabitants. The result of my work was shown in November 1922 at the Salon dCARL GRUNBERG
In the early 1920s, the original members of the Frankfurt Institute — half forgotten names such as Carl Grünberg, Henryk Grossman, and Karl August Wittfogel — were social scientists of an orthodox Marxist conviction. They understood their task as an advancement of the sciences that would prove useful in solving the problems of aEurope
AN AMERICAN UTOPIA DUAL POWER AND THE UNIVERSAL ARMY an american utopia dual power and the universal army fredric jameson, jodi dean, saroj girl, agon hamza, kojin karatani, kim stanley robinson, frank ruda, albertoTHE REVOLUTION OF
x Preface to the Present edItIon of battery farming, and, in general, the growing impoverishment of existence—source of the despair from which the managers of economic collapse wring their last profits. WHITES, JEWS, AND US 8 /Whites, Jews, and Us painful dialogue about whiteness, Zionism, patriarchy, and empire. Does not the end of imperial innocence entail the rejection of social democracy or neoliberal poli- ABOUT TWO SQUARES: EL LISSITZKY’S 1922 SUPREMATIST PICTURE Originally published in the Cambridge Literary Review. Most children’s books do not come with instructions for how to read them. El Lissitzky’s About Two Squares is not most children’s books.. Lissitzky first announced his plan to write a “suprematist tale” about two intergalactic squares while teaching graphic arts and printmaking at the Vitebsk Institute of Popular Art in 1920. MOISEI GINZBURG’S CONSTRUCTIVIST MASTERPIECE: NARKOMFIN Recently I happened across a cache of extremely rare photos of Moisei Ginzburg’s constructivist masterpiece, Dom Narkomfin, in Moscow. They are reproduced here along with a brief popular exposition of the building’s history and current status by Athlyn Cathcart-Keays, which I thought quite good (despite an overly personalized narrative). VKHUTEMAS | THE CHARNEL-HOUSE Alma Law: Let’s begin, if you’re agreeable, simply with some biographical information. Vladimir Stenberg: My father was born in Sweden in the town of Norrkoping and he finished the Academy in Stockholm with a gold medal. Then he was invited to come here to Moscow to do some kind of work. At that time there was an exhibition in Yuzovka — now it’s called Donetsk — so there in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION—1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz,and William A. Pelz
METAPHYSICAL THEATER The transformation of the human body, its metamorphosis, is made possible by the costume, the disguise.Costume and mask emphasize the body’s identity or they change it; they express its nature or they are purposely misleading about it; they stress its conformity to organic or mechanical laws or they invalidate this conformity. LENIN, HEGEL, AND WESTERN MARXISM Contents Acknowledgments vn Introduction ix A Note on Sources and Abbreviations xix Part 1: Lenin on Hegel and Dialectics 1. The Crisis of World Marxism in 1914 AN AMERICAN UTOPIA DUAL POWER AND THE UNIVERSAL ARMY an american utopia dual power and the universal army fredric jameson, jodi dean, saroj girl, agon hamza, kojin karatani, kim stanley robinson, frank ruda, albertoIGNATII MILINIS
Unknown. Moisei Ginzburg’s Narkomfin building in Moscow: A Soviet blueprint for collective living Athlyn Cathcart The Guardian May 5, 2015. In the shadow of one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters skyscrapers in Moscow’s Presnenskii District, an unkempt park gives way to a trio of yellowing buildings in varying states of decay. The crumbling concrete and overgrown wall-garden don’t give much GUSTAVS-KLUCIS-OPPRESSED-PEOPLES-OF-THE-WHOLE-WORLD-1924 Visit the post for more. From Bauhaus to Beinhaus. Skip to contentTHE CHARNEL-HOUSE
The Charnel-House | From Bauhaus to Beinhaus SIGNATURES OF THE VISIBLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the following essays: “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture”: Social Text #1 (Fall, 1979). “Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture”: Screen Educa- tion #30 (1977). “Diva and French Socialism”: Originally published as “On Diva,” Social Text #6 (Fall, 1982). “In the destructive element immerse GRAHAM GREENE’S INFAMOUS REVIEW OF WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937 Shirley Temple passed away a little over a week ago. Now that some time has gone by, though, I thought I would take this opportunity to repost a hilarious 1937 review written by Graham Greene of her movie Wee Willie Winkie.Greene, one of the great British authors of the twentieth century — and there were many — wrote with such searing cynicism and shocking innuendo that Temple’s VKHUTEMAS | THE CHARNEL-HOUSE Alma Law: Let’s begin, if you’re agreeable, simply with some biographical information. Vladimir Stenberg: My father was born in Sweden in the town of Norrkoping and he finished the Academy in Stockholm with a gold medal. Then he was invited to come here to Moscow to do some kind of work. At that time there was an exhibition in Yuzovka — now it’s called Donetsk — so there in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION—1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz,and William A. Pelz
METAPHYSICAL THEATER The transformation of the human body, its metamorphosis, is made possible by the costume, the disguise.Costume and mask emphasize the body’s identity or they change it; they express its nature or they are purposely misleading about it; they stress its conformity to organic or mechanical laws or they invalidate this conformity. LENIN, HEGEL, AND WESTERN MARXISM Contents Acknowledgments vn Introduction ix A Note on Sources and Abbreviations xix Part 1: Lenin on Hegel and Dialectics 1. The Crisis of World Marxism in 1914 AN AMERICAN UTOPIA DUAL POWER AND THE UNIVERSAL ARMY an american utopia dual power and the universal army fredric jameson, jodi dean, saroj girl, agon hamza, kojin karatani, kim stanley robinson, frank ruda, albertoIGNATII MILINIS
Unknown. Moisei Ginzburg’s Narkomfin building in Moscow: A Soviet blueprint for collective living Athlyn Cathcart The Guardian May 5, 2015. In the shadow of one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters skyscrapers in Moscow’s Presnenskii District, an unkempt park gives way to a trio of yellowing buildings in varying states of decay. The crumbling concrete and overgrown wall-garden don’t give much GUSTAVS-KLUCIS-OPPRESSED-PEOPLES-OF-THE-WHOLE-WORLD-1924 Visit the post for more. From Bauhaus to Beinhaus. Skip to contentTHE CHARNEL-HOUSE
The Charnel-House | From Bauhaus to Beinhaus SIGNATURES OF THE VISIBLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the following essays: “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture”: Social Text #1 (Fall, 1979). “Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture”: Screen Educa- tion #30 (1977). “Diva and French Socialism”: Originally published as “On Diva,” Social Text #6 (Fall, 1982). “In the destructive element immerse GRAHAM GREENE’S INFAMOUS REVIEW OF WEE WILLIE WINKIE (1937 Shirley Temple passed away a little over a week ago. Now that some time has gone by, though, I thought I would take this opportunity to repost a hilarious 1937 review written by Graham Greene of her movie Wee Willie Winkie.Greene, one of the great British authors of the twentieth century — and there were many — wrote with such searing cynicism and shocking innuendo that Temple’s LAZAR KHIDEKEL’S AERIAL CITY OF THE FUTURE (1925-1932 Over the second half of the twenties, Khidekel became obsessed with the idea of a flying city. Georgii Krutikov’s proposal for a “Flying City” may be more famous, but Khidekel’s fantastic renderings are also worth taking a look at. Recently I came across a cache of images stored on one of my favorite Russian-language websites, Togda Zine, a repository of the heroic Soviet avant-garde. VKHUTEMAS | THE CHARNEL-HOUSE Alma Law: Let’s begin, if you’re agreeable, simply with some biographical information. Vladimir Stenberg: My father was born in Sweden in the town of Norrkoping and he finished the Academy in Stockholm with a gold medal. Then he was invited to come here to Moscow to do some kind of work. At that time there was an exhibition in Yuzovka — now it’s called Donetsk — so there in HANS ARP AND EL LISSITZKY, THE “ISMS” OF ART (1924) Monoskop recently posted a scan of El Lissitzky and Hans Arp’s Kunstismen (1924), translated roughly as The “Isms” of Art.It is reproduced here in its entirety, page by page, or in full-text pdf format.. The original text runs in three parallel columns separated by thick dividers, very much in a constructiviststyle.
KARL MARX - THE CHARNEL-HOUSE Contents Foreword vii Michael Buckmiller Introduction 1 part 1 Society 1 Marxism and Sociology 7 2 The Principle of Historical Specification 12 3 The Principle of Historical Specification (continued) 224 The Principle of Change 27 5 The Principle of Criticism 35 6 A New Type of CAPITALISM AND BOURGEOISIE: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE The magic and necromancy of commodity production. Goethe’s famous 1797 ballad Der Zauberlehrling provides probably the best allegory for Marx’s own conception of capitalism, which he memorably described as partaking of a kind of sorcery — “the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities.” LEF — THE SOVIET “LEFT FRONT” OF ART (1923-1930) Two days after Barr arrived, O’Callahan took him to visit Sergei Tretiakov, a member of the futurist movement and the founder of the magazine Lef 1923–1925 and Novyi Lef 1927–1928, who lived in an apartment in the Dom Gosstrakh building, an example by Moisei Ginzburg of the new constructivist architecture — ”an apartment house built in the severely functional style of Gropius and LeALFRED BÄUMLER
Mazzino Montinari Reading Nietzsche West Berlin, 1982. Mazzino Montinari (4 April 1928 – 24 November 1986) was an Italian scholarof Germanistics.
THINGS BEYOND RESEMBLANCE Popular Music and “The Aging of the New Music” 169 The Impossibility of Music 180 Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence 190 Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being 193 Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World 210 Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno 220 Introduction to T. W. Adorno’s “The Idea of KARL MARX (FIFTH EDITION) Karl Marx Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia; there in 1917, in Petrograd, he witnessed both revolutions – social democratic A MARXIST THEORY OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Capitalism* Theses There are two basic theses presented here. The first is that there is a necessary con-flict in capitalism between the need for freedom of expression for the purposes ofTHE CHARNEL-HOUSE
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LAZAR KHIDEKEL’S AERIAL CITY OF THE FUTURE (1925-1932) Posted by Ross Wolfe2
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I’ve posted about Lazar Khidekel before. A few years ago, I met some of his descendants who live here in New York. Regina Khidekel, his daughter-in-law, has written some very interesting articles about Khidekel’s speculative architecture, one of which you can read in this collection. Khidekel was a student of the great suprematist painter KazimirMalevich
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and was involved with his group Unovis. Later on, in 1928, he reflected on his path from painting to architecture in a brief“Biography”:
> From 1920 to 1922, I participated in the publication of Unovis > collections, contributing a series of articles on questions of art > and its relationship to production. I spent the last two years at > the Vitebsk Artistic and Practical Institute; in addition to > coursework assignments, I was engaged with questions concerning the > ties between constructive art (cubism, the “relief,” > constructivism, suprematism) and architecture. I presented my > findings — work that involved not only a painterly but also an > architectural content — at the _Second Unovis Exhibition_ in> Moscow.
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> Assuming that my only possible involvement in architecture would > occur through the assimilation of the knowledge on which > it is based, in 1922 I enrolled in the Department of Architecture at > the Institute of Civil Engineers. I am now a student on the final > course. Between the time of my arrival in Leningrad in 1922 and the > present, I participated in the Fifth-Year Exhibition at the Academy > of Arts in 1923. In 1923, I became a member of the Art and > Literature Department of the literary and artistic journal _Vulcan_ > , published by Leningrad State University. I served as the > head of tours in the Painting Department of the Russian Museum > (formerly the Museum of Painterly Culture). Some images of the Unovis set at Vitebsk and Khidekel from his days in the group appear below. Over the second half of the twenties, Khidekel became obsessed with the idea of a flying city. Georgii Krutikov’s proposal for a“Flying City”
may be more famous, but Khidekel’s fantastic renderings are also worth taking a look at. Recently I came across a cache of images stored on one of my favorite Russian-language websites, _Togda Zine_ , a repository of the heroic Soviet avant-garde. You can view them all below. Paired with these images is an excerpt from Selim Khan-Magomedov’s encyclopedic account of the _Pioneers of Soviet Architecture_. I will post the full PDF of that book sometime soon. While not as theoretically ambitious as his student Vladimir Paperny,
or the brilliant (if perverse) Boris Groys,
Khan-Magomedov was a giant — the ultimate authority of early architectural modernism in the USSR. Enjoy! KHIDEKEL’S EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS SELIM KHAN-MAGOMEDOV FROM _PIONEERS__ OF SOVIET __ARCHITECTURE_ (1983).
A set of interesting experimental town-planning designs produced by Khidekel during the 1920s develop some aspects of the aero-city concept, and also reveal the influence of other experimental town-planning ideas of that period, such as vertical zoning. Taken as a whole, in fact, all these designs represent variations, and developments of the latter concept. As distinct, however, from the proposals by Lavinsky, Lissitzky,
and Melnikov
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Khidekel’s projects for a vertical zoning of cities involve a global approach to this town-planning concept: insofar as he was concerned, it was not merely a matter of organizing the area of habitation within a city’s boundaries in a rational way, but of the interaction between human settlement and the environment as a whole. This broad approach accounts for the way in which the architectural complexes in his sketches interact with levels below ground, stretches of water, a virgin environmen,t and supraterrestrial space. In an attempt to preserve nature intact among the city complexes, Khidekel’s project of 1922 relegated main transport lines to tunnels, and allowed them to surface only in cuttings in the vicinity of buildings. In another project dating from the same year, he designed a building floating above ground and only tenuously linked to it. In 1926, he drew a building at a great height above the Earth and wholly detached from it. Continue reading → WITH LIGHTNING TELEGRAMS:* Tumblr
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REMEMBERING ROSA LUXEMBURG, 150 YEARS AFTER HER BIRTH Posted by Ross Wolfe6
The great Polish Marxist and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born 150 years ago today. In honor of her life and legacy, I thought I’d post some of her works and texts about her along with an introduction to her 1918 polemic _The Russian Revolution_ by OnoratoDamen.
Luxemburg was a heroic, larger than life figure, a champion of the working class dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist order. From a young age, she became steeped in the discourse of Marxism and involved herself in socialist causes. Along with Leo Jogiches, she founded the Social Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania. When the “revisionist controversy” broke out in the late 1890s, Luxemburg penned what was easily the best response to Eduard Bernstein’s reformism, _Reform or Revolution?_. During the next couple decades, Luxemburg became professionally trained in economics and contributed to a number of theoretical debates within international Marxism. Becoming more involved in the German Social-Democratic Party, she initially sided with orthodoxy but by 1910 found herself at odds with its main spokesman, Karl Kautsky. Thereafter she increasingly locked horns with the party’s leadership, until in August 1914 the outbreak of world war led to a world-historic crisis. Unlike many of her prominent comrades, Luxemburg was unequivocally opposed to the war and took a stand publicly against it. For this she was jailed for several years, as was the firebrand Karl Liebknecht, who would soon become one of her closest cothinkers in opposition to bourgeois militarism. After the November Revolution of 1918, the two were freed and immediately threw themselves into the struggle, agitating for proletarian revolution. Tragically, they were murderedby the Freikorps
under orders from the Social-Democratic government. Of course, Luxemburg was not perfect. She and Liebknecht should have split from the Second and Second-and-a-Half Internationals sooner, and her critique of Marx’s “reproduction schemas” in Volume 2 of _Capital_ was based on mistaken premises. Her theory of periodic crisis was underconsumptionist, moreover. Other Marxist theorists, such as Henryk Grossman, took Luxemburg to task on this score. Nevertheless, she remained an “eagle,” as Lenin put it in arejoinder
to
Paul Levi:
> We shall reply to by quoting two lines from a good old > Russian fable: “Eagles may at times fly lower than hens, but hens > can never rise to the height of eagles.” Rosa Luxemburg was > mistaken on the question of the independence of Poland ; she was mistaken in 1903 in her appraisal > of Menshevism; she was mistaken on the theory of the accumulation of > capital; she was mistaken in July 1914, when, together with > Plekhanov, Vandervelde, Kautsky and others, she advocated unity > between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks; she was mistaken in what she > wrote in prison in 1918 (she corrected most of these mistakes at the > end of 1918 and the beginning of 1919 after she was released). But > in spite of her mistakes she was — and remains for us — an > eagle. And not only will Communists all over the world cherish her > memory, but her biography and her _complete_ works (the publication > of which the German Communists are inordinately delaying, which can > only be partly excused by the tremendous losses they are suffering > in their severe struggle) will serve as useful manuals for training > many generations of Communists all over the world. “Since August > 4, 1914, German Social-Democracy has been a stinking corpse” — > this statement will make Rosa Luxemburg’s name famous in the > history of the international working class movement. And, of course, > in the backyard of the working-class movement, among the dung heaps, > hens like Paul Levi, Scheidemann, Kautsky and all that fraternity > will cackle over the mistakes committed by the great Communist. To > every man his own. You can download a number of works by or about Luxemburg below. I wouldn’t recommend all of these books, especially the secondary literature, but there’s useful stuff to be found in many of these selections. Also, be sure to check out the ICT’s article on “Rosa Luxemburg and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement in Poland.”WORKS BY LUXEMBURG
* _Selected Writings_ * _Complete Works, Volume 1: Economic Writings 1_ * _Complete Works, Volume 2: Economic Writings 2_ * _Complete Works, Volume 3: Political Writings 1, On Revolution_(1897-1905)
* _The Accumulation of Capital_(1913)
* “May Day”
(1913)
* _The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism_
(1918, 1903)
* “My Idea of Bolshevism”(1918)
LETTERS OF LUXEMBURG* _Letters_
(1891-1919)
* _Selected Letters_ * _Comrade and Lover: Letters to Leo Jogiches_ BIOGRAPHIES OF LUXEMBURG * Paul Frölich, _Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Work_(1928)
* J.P. Nettl, _Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 1: 1895-1911_(1962)
* J.P. Nettl, _Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2: 1911-1919_
(1962)
* Paul Mattick Sr., “Review of _Rosa Luxemburg_ by J.P. Nettl”(1967)
* Klaus Gietinger, _The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg_
(2008)
WORKS ABOUT LUXEMBURG’S THEORY AND PRACTICE * Tadeusz Kowalik, _Rosa Luxemburg: Theory of Accumulation and__
Imperialism_
(1971)
* Raya Dunayevskaya, _Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution_(1981)
* Hillel Ticktin, “Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Crisis in a Contemporary Theoretical Context”(2012)
* Daniel Gaido and Manuel Quiroga, “The Early Reception of Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Imperialism”(2013)
* Jason Schulman (ed.), _Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy_
(2013)
* Jan Toporowski, Ewa Karwowski, Riccardo Bellofiore (eds.), _The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange, and Michal Kalecki: Volume 1 of Essays in Honour of Tadeusz Kowalik_
(2014)
* Jan Toporowski, Ewa Karwowski, Riccardo Bellofiore (eds.), _The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange, and Michal Kalecki: Volume 2 of Essays in Honour of Tadeusz Kowalik_
(2014)
* Engin Delice, “The Dialectic Whole Between Theory and Reality inRosa Luxemburg”
(2015)
* Jon Nixon, _Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal_
(2018)
* Ankica Čakardić, _Like a Clap of Thunder: Three Essays on RosaLuxemburg_
(2019)
NOVELS ABOUT LUXEMBURG * Alfred Döblin, _Karl and Rosa: November 1918, A GermanRevolution
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(1950)
INTRODUCTION TO ROSA LUXEMBURG’S _THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION_.
It is fashionable these days to quote Luxemburg’s ideas and positions, especially in her polemics with Lenin. However this return to theoretical and critical Luxemburgism has mainly been carried out by those who have learned nothing from her real thinking or her heroic militancy. They reinterpret her formulations on freedom and democracy in their own way, and mostly for devious motives, whilst for Luxemburg these expressions serve only as a catalyst for the growth of revolutionary consciousness in the masses as they struggle for emancipation. However, on the lips of some enlightened bourgeois and renegade socialists such ideas are useful for dragging the proletariat into the capitalist mindset and the political and economic structures of the ruling class. The attempt to use Luxemburg’s polemics as a front for the most decrepit and dishonest anti-communism stemming from the Second International and the Two and a Half International, does not deserve special attention. On the other hand, having another look at this same material, a product of the polemics with Lenin, and of the key problems of the party and of the dictatorship of the proletariat as presented and confirmed in the Russian experience, is very timely andfruitful.
At the root of her disagreement with Lenin were the same ideas that are reemerging today in the politics of the vanguard of the international labour movement, except that today they are sharper and more dramatic given the defeat of that burning test of socialism which was the Soviet experience. Continue reading → WITH LIGHTNING TELEGRAMS:* Tumblr
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Mar·05
NOEL IGNATIEV, 1940-2019 Posted by Ross Wolfe22
Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard. A couple weekends ago I’d seen him at the _Hard Crackers_ release party,
which I’d gone to with my friends Kaspar, Arianna, Joseph, and Chelsea. Once a few contributors to the latest issue finished speaking, Noel got up there and gave a rousing summary of what theproject is about.
To me, at least, he seemed in good spirits. About a year or so ago, after chatting frequently via social media, Noel asked for my number. We talked now and then over the phone, which I barely do with anyone anymore, where he explained to me his condition. But when I saw him at this event, he came off as lively and even optimistic. The doctors apparently had told him there was a good chance they could operate, since the rest of his body was quite strong. So hearing of his death last night came as a shock to me. What a shame we can’t have him around another decade or two. Most people know Noel from his book _How the Irish Became White_,
or from the journal _Race Traitor_ that he helped edit back in the nineties and early aughts. Ignatiev was a pupil of Theodore Allen, whose epic treatise on _The __Invention of the White Race_ was a landmark in the field. Though deeply indebted to Allen, which he was always the first to acknowledge,
he eventually broke with his former master. Against the emerging academic field of “whiteness studies,” Ignatiev fulminated that the point was not to study whiteness but abolish it. Unfortunately, some of the concepts he helped to popularize took on a life of their own after working their way into liberal online discourse. None has been so abused as the notion of “white skin privilege,” which Ignatiev et al. never meant to function as some sort of individualized guilt complex. During an interview with _Orchestrated Pulse_,
he told Vincent Kelley: > John Garvey and I began _Race Traitor_ with the goal of breaking up > the white race, as a contribution to working-class solidarity. We > never used, endorsed or promoted identity politics; we railed > against multiculturalism and “diversity”; we were scornful of > those who wanted to preserve the “good aspects” of “white > culture” or to “re-articulate” or “decenter” whiteness. We > wanted nothing to do with the growing academic field of “whiteness > studies.” We did share some vocabulary with individuals and > organizations that were traveling on different roads to different> places.
>
> The most significant instance of this was the word “privilege.” > In light of the political travesties that have developed under the > term since, we wish we had differentiated ourselves more > categorically from those who wanted to make careers in journalism, > social work, organizational development, education and the arts, and > who insist that the psychic battle against privilege must be > never-ending; instead of challenging institutions they scrutinize > every inter-personal encounter between black people and whites to > unearth underlying “racist” attitudes and guide people in > “unlearning” them. Hectoring people about their privileges was > never our approach; it is an annoyance rather than a challenge. Indeed, though he deftly avoided the question Kelley posed to him about the work of Adolph Reed, Noel told an online discussion group that he’d corresponded with Reed back in the mid-aughts. Reed eventually stopped responding to his repeated queries, so the dialogue sadly came to naught. Though he sympathized with Reed’s critique of identity politics, he feared (quite rightly) that all Reed was offering was warmed-over social-democratic trade unionism. Ignatiev identified far more with the left communist positions of Loren Goldner, who also contributed to _Race Traitor_.
Others adopted positions on race vaguely similar to Ignatiev’s, but he did not hesitate to criticize or distance himself from their work when they diverged. For example, he wrote a very harsh criticism of fellow STO veteran J. Sakai for his book _Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat_, which I reposted on my blog (this set off a fresh storm of controversy). More of his notes onSakai
can be accessed here. Ignatiev certainly appreciated the early work of David Roediger on _The Wages of Whiteness_, and wrote a favorablereview
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Nov·10
ISSUE SEVEN RELEASE PARTY FOR _HARD CRACKERS_ THIS WEEKEND Posted by Ross Wolfe5
John Garvey reminded me that _Hard Crackers_ is releasing its seventh issue this weekend at Freddy’s Bar in Brooklyn. So if you’re in town, feel free to stop by and grab a drink to celebrate. You can visit the Facebook event pagefor more details.
It says Noel Ignatiev will be there, so I hope to catch up with him! There will be readings from contributors including James Livingston, who authored “The Fireman” piece, along with many others. Livingston wrote a piece for _Jacobin_ years ago called “How theLeft Has Won,”
which I found far too sunny and optimistic for my tastes. But he’s agreat guy.
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Oct·25
BAUHAUS: EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA Posted by Ross Wolfe1
THEODORE LUX FEININGER_CRITICISM_
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SUMMER 1960
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I grew up with and at the Bauhaus. I was nine years old when my father was invited to join the founding staff in 1919, which necessitated our family’s removal from Berlin to Weimar. In my memory, the moving was attended by cheery circumstances. In the first spring since the cessation of hostilities a great upsurge of hope was evidenteverywhere.
I liked the town and surroundings of Weimar, and best of all was the Bauhaus atmosphere itself. A boy does not trouble his head about the origin and history of things, and I accepted the interesting people and their works, and the attention they paid to me and my works, as something which might have been there always, but which was certainly very agreeable and delightfully different from the musty disciplines of the Gymnasium. The Bauhaus population was fond of gaiety and given to playing and the celebrating of feasts; a paper lantern serenade under our windows on my father’s birthday remains an unforgettableexperience.
In the following years, as was inevitable, other preoccupations intruded upon the Arcadian felicity of the beginning, and when, seven years later, I became a student at the Bauhaus myself (the youngest ever admitted), I could probably have dimly remembered the childish participation but was engrossed in so new and different a situation that it seemed like a new world altogether. Thirty-three years have gone by since that time; and the more I ponder now what has always seemed so familiar, the more material for wonder I find opening to me. These findings are of a dual, intertwining nature. I am impressed with the effect and forming power the school has had on my own development, but especially with the uniqueness, the scope, the bold novelty of inception, of a community into which I had wandered, when young, as unquestionably as I might have strolled casually into some ancient church; something that “had always been there.” I discover that it had not always been there and that soon it was not to be there any more at all. I must attempt to separate the strands of personal recollection and gradual enlightenment as to the social meaning of what is known as “The Bauhaus,” an organization born out of the collaboration of many minds. At the beginning of it all, with his strong spirit of devotion, stands the vision and the geniusof Walter Gropius
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Sep·11
1929 LETTER FROM VARLAM SHALAMOV TO THE DIRECTOR OF OGPU Posted by Ross Wolfe2
Last month I posted an article by Valerii Esipov contrasting Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Both were survivors of Stalin’s gulag system, but diverged sharply at a political and stylistic level. With regard to the former of these, Shalamov had been involved in the Trotskyist Left Opposition toward the end of the 1920s. He was first arrested in February 1929 for his participation in a student movement that demanded the publication of Lenin’s “testament,” which described Stalin as too rude and power-mad to serve as secretary of the CPSU(b). Shalamov would serve nearly three years at a chemical construction site, under conditions which only seem mild by comparison with his later stint at Kolyma. Upon his release in 1931 he returned to Moscow, but his freedom proved short-lived: after marriage and the birth of a daughter, he was rearrested in 1936 and sent to the North, where he would remain until 1954. During his first bout of imprisonment and encampment, however, Shalamov penned a remarkable letter . What follows is one of the most fearless documents I have ever come across. It was addressed to the director of the Soviet secret police, at the time known by the acronym OGPU, and boldly restates his political convictions in favor of the Left Opposition. Leon Trotsky’s name is invoked twice, here in July 1929, endorsing one of his articles and referring to him as a leader of the October Revolution. A letter like this would have gotten one promptly shot without trial just several years later, and it seems to me a small miracle that Shalamov did not suffer a worse fate even during this earlier (relatively lenient) moment. Perhaps notable, especially because of the uproar surrounding the use of the phrase to migrant detention centers in the US: Shalamov was writing from a facility that referred to itself as a “concentration camp”, though this was
before this designation had such a stigma attached to it. I’ve translated the letter below in full but am looking for a bigger venue interested in publishing it. Send me an email if you’d like to read the translation or if you know of any publications that mightwant to feature it.
6.VII.29
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КОЛЛЕГИИ ОГПУ ЦК ВКП(Б) ПРОКУРОРУ ОГПУ.
Разделяя взгляды большинства ленинских оппозиционеров, я не разделил их судьбы. Брошенный в концентрационный лагерь — один — без всякой моральной и материальной поддержки — в среду уголовников, растратчиков, шпионов и контрреволюционеров — среду, с которой я не только никогда не имел ничего общего, но где можно боролся против них за партию, за советскую власть и ее политику. В обстановке полной моральной изолированности, больше того — бойкота и издевательств (именно, как разделяющий взгляды оппозиции) заставлен я отбывать срок. Нахожусь в тяжелых культурных условиях, не имея времени читать книги, газеты, журналы, совершенно от них оторванный. Решительно протестуя против подобного обращения с оппозионером — прошу перевода для отбывания срока в политизолятор к моим товарищам, к людям, с которыми у меня общий язык. Арестован в г. Москве 19 февр. 1929 г. Получил приговор 28 марта 1929 г. В лагере с 1 апреля 1929 г. Еще раз излагаю в общем и кратком мои политические взгляды. Напряженная политическая жизнь последних лет вынуждала каждого настоящего советского гражданина так или иначе определить свое отношение к сегодняшнему и завтрашнему дню. Continuereading →
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Jul·20
VARLAM SHALAMOV VERSUS ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Posted by Ross Wolfe5
Few authors are so commonly cited in anticommunist literature as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Since the appearance of _The Gulag Archipelago_ in the early seventies, it has been invoked at every turn by everyone from the “new philosophers” of France to the Canadian self-help guru Jordan Peterson. No doubt Solzhenitsyn is a great author, from a purely literary standpoint. His reactionary politics are quite separate from this consideration, but ought to have been of much more concern to Jewish ex-Maoists like Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut (who are constantly on the lookout for signs of left antisemitism, yet seem to ignore Solzhenitsyn’s numerous antisemitic statements). Alain Badiou, who has a bone to pick with the _nouveaux philosophes_, often contrasts the work of Solzhenitsyn with another chronicler of the gulags. Varlam Shalamov was an adherent of the Left Opposition in Russia, and as such was arrested as a Trotskyist — first in 1929 and then again in 1937. (Perhaps significantly, the Maoist Badiou fails to so much as mention Shalamov’s Trotskyism.) Without question, Shalamov is more redeemable at a political level than Solzhenitsyn. But his prose is no less moving, and in its spareness may in fact be stylistically superior. You can read below an essay by Valerii Esipov from the Shalamov website, originally written in 2002. Quite good. Even includes a quote from Adorno, which is relatively rare among Russian intellectuals. Right now I’m preparing to review the new translation of _Kolyma Stories_, so it helps. Varlam Shalamov, 1970s CEREBRATION OR GENUFLECTION? VARLAM SHALAMOV AND ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNVALERII ESIPOV
_RUSSKII SEVER_ №4JANUARY 23, 2002
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It was almost twenty years ago, back when Brezhnev’s era was coming to a close. A small crowd, some forty people, were paying their last respects to a writer nearly forgotten by his contemporaries. Many thought he had already died. “Varlam Shalamov is dead,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn declared to the whole world from America. Meanwhile, Shalamov still walked the streets of Moscow. He could be seen on Tverskaya, when he ventured out from his hole to buy groceries. He was a ghastly sight, reeling down the street like a drunk, falling over. The police force of the “model communist city,” always on guard, would lift him off the ground, and Shalamov, perfectly sober, would present a doctor’s note about his illness, Ménière’s disease, a disorder which affected his balance and had been exacerbated by years of camps. (This note, which the writer always had on him during the last years of his life, is kept in the Shalamov Museum in Vologda). On top of that he was also almost blind and deaf, and in 1979, when he was already 72, he was put into a nursing home for the disabled. He was alone, without a family, and he was visited only by a few friends and acquaintances, as well as foreign journalists. This kept the KGB ever on the watch. At the hospital, he kept on writing poetry. It contained no politics, only Shalamov’s characteristic stubbornness: > As before, I’ll do without a candle. > And I’ll lift myself without a jack.1 Plainclothes officers were present even at the cemetery during Shalamov’s funeral. But then, only forty people attended in all. Why bring this up now? Many details are, after all, well known. These details made anyone who has read Shalamov’s _Kolyma Tales_ and appreciated his greatness as a writer and a human being feel personally ashamed for Shalamov’s fate. Just as one felt ashamed for the lives destroyed or crippled by Stalin’s regime. Then, back in the first years of perestroika, we believed that this shame could be cathartic to our society. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. The two sad facts I would like to relate here are entirely unconnected, but each could epitomize Russia’s current demoralization and its recent history. Continuereading →
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Jun·06
ENGELS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HEGEL TO MARXISM Posted by Ross Wolfe7
Conrad Schmidt was a German economist and intellectual, an early follower of Marxism who corresponded with Engels during the 1890s. He was also older brother of the famed artist Käthe Kollwitz. Neo-Kantian by persuasion, Schmidt nevertheless asked Engels what the philosophical underpinnings of Marx’s thought were. Engels already had put out a book on the topic, _Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy_ (1885), but apparently the implications of this work were not clear enough. So he wrote this letter in reply. Unfortunately, Schmidt did not take Engels’ advice. Like Eduard Bernstein, he deplored the supposed “Hegelian pitfalls”of
Marx’s dialectical method, and soon succumbed to revisionism. Georg Plekhanov penned a good polemic against Schmidt on this point. I might expand on this in another post, but the influence of Hegel was crucial for the categorial framework of Marxism (and hence its rejection of empiricist doctrines). Regardless, enjoy this post for now and hopefully there will be more updates tofollow.
LETTER
TO CONRAD SCHMIDT
NOVEMBER 1, 1891
_CW 49_, 286-287
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You cannot, of course, do without Hegel. He’s another chap whom it will take you time to digest. The short paper on logic in the _Encyklopädie_ would be quite good to start off with, but the edition you should have is that in Volume 6 of the _Werke_ — not Rosenkranz’s separate edition (1845) — since the former contains far more explanatory notes from the lectures, even if that idiot Henning himself frequently fails to understand the latter. Continuereading →
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_RACE TRAITOR_ AND _HARD CRACKERS_ Posted by Ross Wolfe1
Back issues of _Race Traitor_, a journal that ran irregularly for sixteen issues between 1993 and 2005, were recently uploaded online. Edited by the great John Garveyand Noel Ignatiev
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You can download them below. Merry Christmas: * № 1 (Winter 1993) * № 2 (Winter 1994) * № 3 (Spring 1994) * № 4 (Winter 1995) * № 5 (Winter 1996) * № 6 (Summer 1996) * № 7 (Spring 1997) * № 8 (Winter 1998) * № 9 (Summer 1998) * № 10 (Winter 1999) * № 11 (Spring 2000) * № 12 (Spring 2001) * № 13-14 (Summer 2001) * № 15 (Fall 2001) * № 16 (Winter 2005) Some really good stuff in here. I’ve blogged Loren Goldner’s excellent essay “Race and Enlightenment” already, but there is plenty more to dig into. Anyone who likes _Race Traitor_ should also check out the new journal _Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life _. Lots of the same people are involved over there. Plus, their site just got a makeover; it’s way more navigable and user-friendly than before. Follow them on Twitter, too.
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Dec·21
LOOKING BACK: A SELF-CRITIQUE Posted by Ross Wolfe3
It’s never easy to look yourself in the mirror and own up to your mistakes. For a long time, I balked at the very idea. Part of it felt too reminiscent of Stalinist/Maoist self-criticism, in its ritualized form of _самокритика_ or autocritique. Whenever a person demands that someone else “self-crit” online, the image that most readily comes to mind is that of medieval flagellants — lashing their own backs while begging forgiveness for their sins. Quite often it feels forced and insincere, as if the people who yield to the demand are just going through the motions in order to be quickly absolved and be done with the matter as soon as possible. But another reason I refrained from public self-criticism is that my views change rather gradually, to the point where I only notice that I’ve changed my mind well after the fact. Sometimes I think a certain degree of stubbornness can be a virtue, insofar as it means you stick to your guns and don’t just bend in the direction of a shifting wind. Other times, however, it is clearly a vice, especially when you are in the wrong. Even then, when I recognize that I no longer hold my former position on a given issue, I am reluctant to announce that this is the case. Not because I’m unwilling to admit I was wrong, but because I’d prefer to demonstrate this through my actions moving forward instead of dwelling on the past. Unfortunately, though — or maybe fortunately, for those who like to keep score — the internet has a long memory. I’ve certainly said plenty of stupid shit in my time, things I either regret or simply don’t agree with anymore. There were things I shouldn’t have said, situations I should have handled differently, arguments I should’ve considered more carefully before posting or tweeting or whatnot. You can probably find evidence of them if you look hard enough. Really it shouldn’t even be that hard, as I have not made much of an effort to scrub Twitter or other social media of dumb controversies I’ve been involved in (unless someone specifically asked me to take somethingdown).
Perhaps it would help to be a little more concrete. Just to give one example of something I’ve changed my mind on, or have rather come to a better understanding of, take trans struggles. When debates over gender fluidity first came up several years ago, I knew virtually nothing about the issues trans people have had to deal with. I’m still far from an expert, obviously, but to get a sense of how ignorant I was at the time, I only learned what the prefix “cis-” meant around 2013. Before then, I had no idea what any of it added up to. Or really what a whole host of related terms signified. By late 2014 or early 2015 I’d rethought my views. Continue reading → WITH LIGHTNING TELEGRAMS:* Tumblr
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