by Espresso Stalinist Recently I was reading a PDF of the 1938 pamphlet Trotskyism in the Service of Franco: Facts and Documents on the Activities of the P.O.U.M. in Spain by Georges Soria. Soria was a representative in Spain of the French communist paper L’Humanité and also wrote for the International Press Correspondence of theContinue reading “Thoughts on Georges Soria’s Denunciation of “Trotskyism in the Service of Franco””
Category Archives: Rants
Leave it to the Market?
For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to be fixed, and then you have the libertarians, for which the market is, for allContinue reading “Leave it to the Market?”
Tears Behind the Mask
Ending all religions Changes yet to come Whole new situation Fear became too strong Send a spark of hatred To where I cannot rest My fate’s depending on me Pushed to the test Depression unrest As I watch the sky – Krayzie Bone, “Depression Unrest”
Hath not a Palestinian eyes?
I am a Palestinian. Hath not a Palestinian eyes? hath not a Palestinian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Jew is? If you prickContinue reading “Hath not a Palestinian eyes?”
Rant & Personal Account: A Disturbing Revelation
By the Espresso Stalinist As a kid, one of my favorite games was Contra for the original Nintendo NES. As an adult, I now know this game was a propaganda effort to raise support for the reactionary Contras in Nicaragua fighting against the Sandinista government. The ending theme of the original game was titled “Sandinista”Continue reading “Rant & Personal Account: A Disturbing Revelation”
CIA Report on Smurf Communism
Isolated Utopian Village said to be model for Communist society By Christian Bladt Earlier this month, the CIA recently de-classified thousands of pages of documents from the Cold War era pertaining to what was referred to as “The Blue Menace”. For decades, the US government has kept a watchful eye on a small village ofContinue reading “CIA Report on Smurf Communism”
On Lavrenty Beria: One Criticism on Marten’s “Another View of Stalin.”
From Red Comrades: This (ON BERIA) is related to Ludo Martens’ book “Another View of Stalin.” It is a critique of his assessment of Beria. The rest of the Martens’ book relies on facts. However oddly, in stark contrast to the rest of the book, the analysis of Lavrenty Beria does NOT show facts atContinue reading “On Lavrenty Beria: One Criticism on Marten’s “Another View of Stalin.””
Junk food as ‘Addictive as Drugs’ – Why Junk Food is Addictive
“When researchers electronically stimulated the part of the brain that feels pleasure, they found that the rats on unlimited junk food needed more and more stimulation to register the same level of pleasure as the animals on healthier diets.” Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin, scientists have found. A diet of burgers, chips,Continue reading “Junk food as ‘Addictive as Drugs’ – Why Junk Food is Addictive”
More on Right-Wing Hedonism
Postmodernists chafe against all forms of what they call “the norm” except moral equivalences. Postmodernists may rebel against this or that societal expectation, but no matter what they rebel against, they never cease to compare things that aren’t comparable and insist that everything is relative. One example is their perception of violence as being “allContinue reading “More on Right-Wing Hedonism”
Right-Wing Hedonism
What hedonists and postmodernists revived and kept alive in the deeply conservative and libertarian writings of Anton LaVey and the Marquis De Sade probably like about perverted, forbidden things is their hostility to the commonplace. To Ayn Rand life is selfish, rational egoism. People who are steeped in the orthodox myths of religion naturally findContinue reading “Right-Wing Hedonism”
40 Helpful Tips for Becoming a Successful Anti-Communist
by J. Slavyanski of the APL 1. Constantly insist that Marxism is discredited, outdated, and totally dead and buried. Then proceed to build a lucrative career on beating that supposedly ‘dead’ horse for the rest of your working life. 2. Remember, any unnatural death that occurs under a ‘Communist’ regime is not only attributable toContinue reading “40 Helpful Tips for Becoming a Successful Anti-Communist”
Feudalism and Hollywood
As with all things, art and class struggle are related. As far as revolutionary content, television is absolutely the worst, because it is entirely state and monopoly controlled. Even in liberal Hollywood, which romanticizes the bloodthirsty limb-chopping feudalism of the Russian Czar and the Dalai Lama, filmmakers still have more autonomy than those who produceContinue reading “Feudalism and Hollywood”
Jello Biafra Cancels Israel Show, Attacks Boycotters
The former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys has pulled out of a planned concert in Tel Aviv this weekend, but says he will still go to Israel. Jello Biafra, who was set to play in Tel Aviv for the first time on July 2 with his band the Guantanamo School of Medicine, said theContinue reading “Jello Biafra Cancels Israel Show, Attacks Boycotters”
About A Certain Newspaper
Newsweek is a weekly newspaper. It has achieved something amazing in its years of existence, in that is has managed to be one of the most widely read and cited papers in the country while undoubtedly being one of the least deserving of such an honor. The substance of the paper is, in form, quiteContinue reading “About A Certain Newspaper”
Thoughts on Postmodernist Attitudes
Kipling, Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson all address the colonial experience through a hermetically sealed bubble of subjective, individual unreality. Alex Garland in The Beach, Chuck Palahniuk in Fight Club and Bret Easton Ellis in American Psycho all explore the emptiness of bourgeois ideology in modern urban man within this same bubble, frequently arriving atContinue reading “Thoughts on Postmodernist Attitudes”
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