Category Archives: marxism

Lenin at Humboldt University

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Mike

A friend who frequently visits Berlin recently shared this photo, which he took while on a nighttime walk. Pictured here is a stained glass window from the law library at Humboldt University that features the image of Vladimir Lenin. According … Continue reading →

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Žižek and world economy, reconsidered

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Mike

Upon reading Stefan Sullivan’s Marxism for a Post-Communist Society years ago, I was somewhat excited by the work, not so much for Sullivan’s basic conclusions (including his assertion that it is necessary to separate those like Luxemburg and Lenin from … Continue reading →

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The Unseen USSR: Red Square and the Kremlin, 1981

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Mike

Sorting through another set of 35 mm slides featuring photos taken by a world traveler from days past, I have discovered a few more images of the USSR from the Brezhnev Era. The pictures below are from an unpublished private collection. Judging … Continue reading →

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The Unseen USSR: Red Square, 1978

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Mike

It’s the perfect marriage of my appreciation for Soviet-era ephemera and “found photos”: I have acquired a number of old 35 mm slides of photos by various and sundry unnamed world travelers, taken during the 1970s and 1980s. The collections I … Continue reading →

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