Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an interview with Terje Toomistu, director of the documentary Soviet Hippies (2017), conducted by Loren Balhorn:
Bonus links: “A Brief History of Soviet Hippies” and “The Forms of Capital” and The Consumer Society (“Are they [hippies] not ultimately, from a sociological point of view, merely a luxury product of rich societies? Are not they, with their orientalist spirituality, their gaudy psychedelia, also marginals who merely exacerbate certain traits of their society?”)
Link to an article by Jackson Katz:
“Ten Must-Read Books About White Masculinity and the Rise of Trump”
Bonus links: Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior and Delinquency and Opportunity and Merton’s Strain Theory (especially “retreatism”)
Link to an article by Amanda Mull:
“Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie”
Bonus links: The Theory of the Leisure Class, “Twenty-First Century Victorians” and “McMansion, USA”
Link to an article by Thorstein Veblen:
“Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?” from The Dial, Vol. 66, p. 174 (Feb. 22, 1919)
Link to an article by Peter LaVenia:
“The State and Permanent Revolution”
Bonus links: The State and Revolution and Results and Prospects and “Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution'”
Link to an interview with Larry Krasner, conducted by Nyle Fort:
“Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times”
Bonus links: “The Problem with Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Nicolas Bourtin and His Five Myths About White Collar Crime” and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Link to a series of articles from teleSUR about the October Revolution:
Link to an article by Kevin Murphy:
Link to a report by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
“Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite”
Bonus links: “Joe Ricketts Is a Walking Case for a $1 Million Maximum Income” (“A maximum income—and progressive taxation more generally—is less about redistributing income than about redistributing power, though the two aims go hand-in-hand.”; this article does make numerous contradictory statements, though, first stating by way of a quote the principles of Modern Monetary Theory, then immediately contradicting them with reference to “starving public coffers of funds”; an important distinction here is between state and local jurisdictions that cannot issue currency, and a sovereign federal government that can) and “How the Rich Stay Rich” (this interview makes a misleading reference to a book that actually also admits that revolutions can cause equalization of wealth, but the interviewee seems to follow a similar defeatist line of thinking rebutted in War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century, for example)