Behind the Bastards

Principles of Communism

The Culture of Critique

The Culture of Critique

A Culture of Critique

There's a really good book called 1312 uh which people should read if they're interested in like the political uh potential of football ultras.

I think I have but he discusses this phenomenon this explosion in urbanization and the fact that unfortunately you know these cities aren't exactly urban edens they are deeply impoverished filled with um makeshift and often unsafe whether it be you know poisonous or just poorly constructed or disease-ridden dwellings areas such as beirut's quarantina mexico city's santa cruz me a jualco rio de janeiro's favelas and cairo's city of the dead where up to 1 million people live in homes made out of actual tombs.

You can find my book After the Revolution if you just type it into anything that will let you buy a book.

If you are interested in the history of Soviet pseudoscientific mind control, I can recommend the book Homo Sovieticus by Vladimir Wilminski, but the short of it is nothing they do works.

psychological warfare on a scale incalculably more immense than any militarist of the past has ever imagined.

turn Americans into subjects of a new world order for the benefit of a mad little knot of despots in the Kremlin.

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with Scientology, the blind will again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane will become saner.

Leslie Feinberg, which is depressing in a lot of Leslie Feinberg people who don't know is like one of the most important like trans authors ever wrote Stone Butch Blues, which is like if you've ever been in like any sort of like queer or trans scene, you probably know about or possibly have read.

And she wrote, not a great account of this.

Yeah, do you want to talk a bit about what what this was and how people have sort of used it in different ways.

It's a compilation of articles, which Feinberg wrote for as part of the lavender and red series for this world's workers world newspaper which is like this Marciite sect, which Feinberg yeah been a part of real real weirdos like I, they those people like.

And eventually I find out that it's it dates back to this book called Rainbow Solidarity and Defense of Cuba by Leslie Feinberg was written mid to late 2000s.

It's a compilation of articles, which Feinberg wrote for as part of the lavender and red series for this world's workers world newspaper which is like this Marciite sect, which Feinberg yeah been a part of real real weirdos like I, they those people like.

And Feinberg warns in the introduction don't expect a criticism of Cuba in this book. It's factually based but you know, I put it in quotes factually based but, uh, you know, it's it's actually nice but it's you know where this is, it's basically meant as counter propaganda to the criticisms and the section that everyone quotes I mean the book is the book isn't that long I think it's like 100 pages I have it over here.

The section that most people quote is actually like two or three pages. It's this very short section on the map and Feinberg talks about the map and sites, basically, three people to talk about it, basically, one, one of the sources is Ignacio Ramonet, who is this foreign

David Broder, author of Mussolini's Grandchildren, Fascism in Contemporary Italy, wrote in Political Europe.

Quote, Melanie owes much more to the moderate forces in what Italians call the center right alliance.

And Margaret Kiljoy also has a book that depending on when this is, it's either before or after it drops, which is on September 20th. And it's also from from AK Press. And if you preorder it, you can get a nice little book sleeve cover artwork situation. And it's called 'We Won't Be Here Tomorrow'.

It has a book too called 'Terraform'. It's a poetry and short story.

Props book is amazing. I love props book.

Well, let me tell you about where I can be plugged. I wrote a book called After the Revolution. You can find it on bookseller.org or whatever you can find it on Amazon.com. You can find it on the AK press website by just googling AK press After the Revolution. Please buy it and read it many people have and they seem to enjoy it.

Americans were told on the nightly news that crack exposure in the womb destroyed the unique brain functions that distinguish human beings from animals.

The U.S.-style judicial system with an adversary process that emasculated the poor and complex procedures that endlessly delayed decisions could not cope with injustice and crime.

Private weapons were more widespread than in any country.

It was common for cars to be stopped and robbed in daylight on major streets.

The democratic patronage system inhibited removal of corruption and incompetent civil leaders.

Democracy directly inhibited measures designed to ameliorate some of the world's worst social inequality. A Congress of elected landlords dragged its feet in passing land reform legislation and then funding it.

If there were ever a library for the ethnic fear of the enemy during the Great War, it was the Eastern Front.

His education did not include the humanities.

He distinguished himself very early by his vlkisch convictions and expressed them with unusual violence.

Oscar Dirlewanger's war began on August 2nd in a machine gun company of the 123rd Regiment of Grenadiers who were heading to France from Ulm by way of Belgium.