Christmas Playlist
December 8, 2022
While I’m not the kind of person that LOVES Christmas music, I do love music in general and I like Christmas, and there is a
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Jude the Obscure
December 4, 2022
I’m reading Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure. Jude reminds me of myself in some of the passages. He is a romantic with a relatively
The State and Revolution- Lenin
November 30, 2022
Lenin wrote his book The State and Revolution in 1917. He gives his views on the State and what form it was to take under
Democracy in Socialist Writings
November 29, 2022
It’s important to note that in socialist writings, democracy doesn’t mean what we in the west typically think of: free elections where people decide what
The Commie Classics
November 27, 2022
I’ve been doing some heavy political theory posting here. Some time ago I wanted to get a better understanding of what exactly Fascism was since
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific- Friedrich Engels
November 26, 2022
This was originally the first three chapters of a larger work- Anti-Duhring, published in 1878. The initial idea was that Engels would write a more
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
October 28, 2022
The author takes an in-depth look at the only two full-fledged examples of fascism we have: Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany. Since Fascism as an
Nicholas Nickleby Quotes
October 26, 2022
Just started reading Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby and there are, as always with Dickens, some amusing descriptions. The opening lines:“There once lived in a sequestered
Government, Freedom, Responsibility, and Power
October 13, 2022
Spent some time recently on the east coast, in the DC to Philly area, visiting some sites relevant to our country’s history. I have tried
Knowledge is Power
October 12, 2022
This is a reprint of the intro to Chapter 21 of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. Each chapter starts with a small section of applicable text; sometimes
