First published in the journal Kommunist in 1915.
Read for free online: Imperialism and Socialism in Italy
Vladimir Lenin – Imperialism and Socialism in Italy, 1915
Tag: intellectuals
Democrats or not, we don’t owe Joe Biden our votes
US Democratic Party operatives are already trying to beat their electorate into submission for 2024
Democrats or not, we don’t owe Joe Biden our votes
The derangement of the American mind
America is out of control, and is the main threat to the world’s peace, security and civilizations.
The derangement of the American mind
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince – except that it acted secretly – the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
White House officials know Israel is an apartheid state, but they can’t say so
Beltway scholar Mark Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
White House officials know Israel is an apartheid state, but they can’t say so
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
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Upcoming: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism’s Court Jester (YouTube)
The Coming Purge of the China-Hands
by Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker blog
Thousands of China collaborators are under surveillance. Some are on the brink of ruin, others don’t even know what’s in store for them
The Coming Purge of the China-Hands
The War and the Intellectuals: Randolph Bourne Vents His Animus Against War
[World War I] Pro-war statements and speeches—as well as more coercive measures—gradually captured American public discourse in 1917. Fairly quickly, those who rejected the rationales for United States participation in the war found themselves increasingly isolated. Liberals, intellectuals, and even many socialists soon supported American intervention. A youthful critic in his twenties, Randolph Bourne wrote a bitter essay in the intellectual magazine Seven Arts, lambasting his fellow intellectuals for lining up so readily behind the war effort.
The War and the Intellectuals
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future – Petition Campaign
Link to original article.
Humanity has reached a tipping point. It is time for governments, international institutions and people everywhere to take stock and act with renewed urgency.
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future – Petition Campaign
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From the April 14, 1969 issue of New York Magazine: The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class
The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class
The working-class white man is actually in revolt against taxes, joyless work, the double standards and short memories of professional politicians, hypocrisy and what he considers the debasement of the American dream.
Pete Hamill
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