Link to an article by Chip Gibbons:
Tag: History
Lars T. Lih – From February to October
Link to an article by Lars T. Lih:
Michael J. Coren & Clive Thompson – Luddites Have Been Getting a Bad Rap for 200 Years
Link to an interview of Clive Thompson conducted by Michael J. Coren:
“Luddites Have Been Getting a Bad rap for 200 Years. But, Turns Out, They Were Right”
Bonus link: “When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites”
Anatoly Shtyrbul – The Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbass”
Link to an article by Anatoly Shtyrbul:
“The Autonomous Industrial Colony ‘Kuzbass'”
Bonus links: Project Kuzbas: American Workers in Siberia, “Descendants of Dutch Colonists Visit OAO Koks,” “From Stalingrad to Kuzbas: Sketches of the Socialist Construction in the USSR,” “The American Industrial Colony in Kuzbass in the Years of 1922–1927,” “Capitalist Restoration in Russia: A Balance Sheet (Part 1)”
Mike McCarthy & Micah Uetricht – Worked to Death
Link to an interview of Mike McCarthy, author of Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions Since the New Deal (2017), conducted by Micah Uetricht:
Bonus link: Making Money
100th Anniversary of February Revolution
Links to articles about the February 1917 Revolution in Russia:
“A Guide to the February Revolution”
“The Story of the February Revolution”
Bonus links: Revolution at the Gates and The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 and “The Russian Revolution Reconsidered”
Ahmed Shawki – The Legacy of Malcolm X
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Margaret Garb – How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Robespierre – Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Link to machine translation of Robespierre‘s speech of April 24, 1793:
“Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
Superior in every way to the final version.
Michael Hudson – The Land Belongs to God
Link to an interview with Michael Hudson (and others):
This interview summarizes some of Hudson’s most important work. And yet, it also highlights a blind spot in it: his claim that others’ interpretations of ancient history are colored by ideology, as if his is not also. Instead, philosophy teaches, “In an event, things not only change, what changes is the very parameter by which we measure the facts of change, i.e., a turning point changes the entire field within which facts appear.” Hudson is fighting an ideological war — for the good side, mind you — but tries to portray himself as one of the select few pursuing “objective” scientific economic/historical research rather than another partisan. Robespierre would have categorized that as treasonous. Hudson should be more of a Leninist and just accept that he pursues power.
Bonus link: “He Died For Our Debt, Not Our Sins”