Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to a book review by Paul Street of David Garrow‘s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017):
“Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas”
The bits about not citing Street’s own books sound a bit like “sour grapes”. Anyway, by way of contrast, try liberal historian Christopher Read‘s biography Lenin!
Link to an article by Chip Gibbons:
Link to an article by Lars T. Lih:
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”
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)”
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
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”
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
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.