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László Moholy-Nagy and his vision
. You can download the 1969 translation of László Moholy-Nagy’s Painting, Photography, Film (1927) by clicking on the embedded link. A while ago I posted some of Moholy’s work, but this is much more...
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Weekend at Bernie’s: On Sanders 2016
. Two articles I’m reposting here. Both concern the Bernie Sanders campaign. One, written by Jake Verso, specifically focuses on US politics. It also provides some historical context, mentioning past...
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Ivan Leonidov: Artist, dreamer, poet
Andrei Gozak Complete Works January 1988 . The greatest poet is not the one who wrote best but the one who suggested most. — Walt Whitman . Since he first emerged on the architectural scene in the...
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German interwar communist posters
2-P74-K1-2 (33755) KPD-Wahlplakat 1920 Politik / Parteien: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) – ‘Stinnesdiktatur oder Diktatur des Proletariats?’ – Plakat, 1920. 2-G50-A7-1932 (27211) Kampfmai...
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Platyleaks 2.0, Ian Donovan, and the CPGB
. Attached is some more ridiculous, outrageous, and offensive shit that Chris Cutrone wrote to the Platypus e-mail list-serve. I’m sure some of it was selectively quoted and taken out of context, but...
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Mondrian: Order and randomness in abstract painting
Meyer Schapiro Modern Art (Nov. 1978) . 1 . Mondrian’s abstract paintings appeared to certain of his contemporaries extremely rigid, more a product of theory than of feeling. One thought of the painter...
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The missing category of totality
. Feminist Fightback, an activist collective based in the UK, published an article several months back which asks: “Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics?” Recently the piece was...
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Garbation
The first issue of the neo-Cliffite webzine Salvage approvingly quotes the renowned Iranian Marxist revolutionary Ali Shariati, to the effect that humanity is located somewhere “between mud and...
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Hannes Meyer, The new world [Die neue Welt] (1926)
. The flight of the “Norge” to the North pole, the Zeiss planetarium at Jena and Flettner’s rotor ship represent the latest stages to be reported in the mechanization of our planet. Being the outcome...
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A tribute to Vladimir Mayakovsky
. I present to you a Mayakovsky mega-post, for your delectation. Not only was V-Mak kind of a hunk; he was also the consummate poet. All too often he is remembered as a prettyboy, not a serious...
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Steampunk obshchina: The weird peasant retro-future of Jakub Rozalski
Been a while since my last update. I’ve been busy finishing some overdue projects and pieces I had promised. Today’s post is a real treat, however: the weird sci-fi retro-future of the Polish artist...
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Trotsky and the Frankfurt School
Helmut Dahmer Platypus Review October 1, 2015 . Disrespect for a reality that demands adoration as if it were a god is the religion of those, who in today’s Europe under the ‘Iron Heel’ risk their life...
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Wolfgang Pohrt on the radical left and national liberation
. . . From: Wolfgang Pohrt, “Linksradikalismus und nationaler Befreiungskampf” (1982), collected in the book Kreisverkehr, Wendepunkt: Über die Wechseljahre der Nation und die Linke im Widerstreit der...
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Metaphysical theater
The transformation of the human body, its metamorphosis, is made possible by the costume, the disguise. Costume and mask emphasize the body’s identity or they change it; they express its nature or...
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Юлий Мартов, «Религия и марксизм» (1909)
. The following article on “Religion and Marxism” was written by Iulii Martov, one of the leading Mensheviks (along with Georgii Plekhanov). It was published in the journal On the Brink in 1909, and...
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Open-source Marxism 2: Fresh batch of Historical Materialism book titles
A fresh batch of Historical Materialism PDFs has arrived, this time apparently hosted by the same people who posted the MECW last year. The world is in a sorry state, but for those who enjoy free...
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Solidarity with migrants
No more war, no more terror, either in France or elsewhere . No more war, no more terror, either in France or elsewhere. Solidarity with migrants. . Without relativizing the violence in Paris or making...
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Maxime Rodinson: Marxist, Orientalist, anti-Zionist, anti-Islamist
. The French Marxist scholar Maxime Rodinson, whose Polish parents died in Auschwitz while he was serving in the French Institute in Damascus, was born on May 22, 1915. Some sources say Paris; others...
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Federici versus Marx
Gilles Dauvé Troploin Fall 2015 . . .. Note: Dauvé’s piece is not without its problems. Some lines are simply offensive — e.g., “Federici feminizes Marxism; that’s probably what has made her popular,”...
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