Societal anomie explains Kohei Saito’s allure BY THOMAS FAZI A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of degrowth communism. Or so Kohei Saito, the rising star of contemporary Marxist thought, would have you believe. Saito is the author of Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth, which was a huge success in his…

Television The most important thing we’ve learned,So far as children are concerned,Is never, NEVER, NEVER letThem near your television set –Or better still, just don’t installThe idiotic thing at all.In almost every house we’ve been,We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.They loll and slop and lounge about,And stare until their eyes pop out.(Last week in…

11:23 18.01.2024 • On the 75th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2, people walk in snowfall to the Motherland monument to place flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where the victims were buried, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 26, 2019 An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history…

by Jacques LaPere (Dec 01, 2023) Topics: Fascism  Marxism  Movements  Revolutions Places: Europe  Portugal Jacques LaPere is a retired professor, literary critic, and translator. He currently resides in northern California. Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Until Tomorrow, Comrades, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York: International Publishers, 2023), 432 pages, $21.99, paperback. If ever there were a more urgent moment to read a novel due to the…

An excerpt from ‘In That Mill, I Too Was Forged: Poems’, by Narayan Surve, translated from the Marathi by Jerry Pinto. Narayan Surve & Jerry Pinto Jan 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm By way of introduction I’m run ragged, in and out.My daily bread is my daily doubt.I am a worker, a flashing sword,Set to slash through…