Category Archives: marxism

Whither “revisionism”?

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Mike

Marxist circles on the Internet are some of the scrappiest neighborhoods in cyberspace. It turns out that lefites, when critiquing one another, are almost as dysfunctional as the kind of keyboard warriors who inhabit the so-called “Internet Wrestling Community,” except … Continue reading →

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Stephan Denisovich on Fatherhood

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Mike

I recently started reading Anton Makarenko’s 1937 A Book for Parents. Makarenko is perhaps best known for his work The Road to Life which was originally published in Russian as The Pedagogical Poem. I read the first volume of The … Continue reading →

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Our Mandela, not theirs

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mike

It’s really incredible to see American right-wingers hail Nelson Mandela as a visionary and a champion of freedom while they’ve been doing their damnedest to smear and destroy everything and everyone who they consider to be remotely left-leaning, especially over … Continue reading →

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“Quotations From Chairman Mao,” the word cloud edition

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Mike

Below is a “word cloud” I created using the full text of the Second Edition of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-tung, excluding chapter titles and citations. Click on the image to view a much larger version of this picture.

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