Category Archives: marxism

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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The Struggle Between the Theory of Classes and the Theory of Human Nature in Literature and Art

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Mike

Below is an original, annotated transcription of Su Hsi’s 1972 article “The Struggle Between the Theory of Classes and the Theory of Human Nature in Literature and Art” from Peking Review, Vol. 15, No 23; June 9, 1972 (available in … Continue reading →

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To Ludwig Feuerbach in Bruckberg

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Mike

Recently, while in the course of closely re-reading and studying Karl Marx’s 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge (commonly referred to as “For a Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing,” I came upon a rare gem in the form of one of … Continue reading →

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