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Jul 30, 201918 min read

Notes on a radical interpretation of the Cold War

[Also here]. I’ve been reading Gabriel and Joyce Kolko’s classic The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–54...

Nov 17, 20161 min read

I recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take...

May 31, 20161 min read

Years ago I read and took some notes on various works by Hannah Arendt. In particular her classic Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a...

Sep 13, 20154 min read

[This is an excerpt from Notes of an Underground Humanist.] You should read Peter Kropotkin’s essay “The State: Its Historic Role.”...

Feb 11, 20152 min read

Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...

Oct 29, 20144 min read

[Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism,...