Tag: Marxism

  • Hoping for social cohesion

    An article posted in early December last year by Karl Du Fresne is worth noting now as we move into the new year, Why social cohesion should be the key issue in 2023. Karl notes a few of the bad things that have developed under this Labour government’s headlong and headstrong rush where only fools…

  • Latin America La La Land

    We never pay enough attention to Latin America – which includes the nations of Central and South America – except when something is in crisis, like Argentina and the Falklands War, or revolutions and military coups. As just a small example, I’m only now adding a category for “Latin America” for posts such as this.…

  • Unity and Utopias

    Growing up in the 1970’s I’d read, watched and listened to sufficient propaganda that I was convinced that the Left were tolerant in many different ways. Perhaps there was an element of the old hippies involved, but I appreciated the whole scene even as I rolled my eyes at their world (punk music was the…

  • Everything is Political

    That phrase grew out of the rise of the so-called New Left in the 1960’s, a movement that could no longer stomach standing with the old Marxist Left. Not with the blood-soaked creatures like Stalin and Mao that were that faction when in power, but also not with the Western Left that insisted, as per…

  • LeninThink and the Modern Left

    I first read this article, Leninthink, when it was published in 2019, but back then I treated it more as an interesting – if frightening – piece of history. But it now looks more like a description of what I see and read every day (H/T Lucia Maria). The essay is not really about Lenin’s…

  • The Revolution is Postponed – Chile episode

    “Whoever doesn’t jump is a communist!” And thank fuck for that, for when Socialist revolutions succeed you can guarantee a butt load of misery for the people, toiling masses and all, sooner or later. What I’m referring to was something that happened a couple of weeks ago in Chile and was overshadowed by the Ukraine…