The New York Times of August 29 featured the recent unveiling of a monument to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani (“Village Tribute Reignites a Debate About Italy’s Fascist Past“) in the Italian town of Affile, one paid for in part for by public funds no less. Graziani can legitimately be called a war criminal on two […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
AK Press has appearently passed on issuing Matthew Quest’s In the Shadow of State Power: CLR James, Direct Democracy, and National Liberation Struggles. The book will now be released by On Our Own Authority! Publishing (yes, they use an exclamation point in their name), a new outfit based in Atlanta which seems to focus on […]
Criticism &c. has belatedly discovered this rebuff to the crypto-Stalinist and Slobodan Milosevic apologist Michael Parenti, author of To Kill A Nation, on the Balkan Witness web site. It says a lot about the state of the U.S. left and peace movements that Parenti is in good odor among them. Visit the Balkan Witness site […]
The Marxists Internet Archive has launched an Ernst Bloch section. The first text to appear there is the chapter on Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach from Vol 1 of Bloch’s The Principle of Hope. This excerpt appears to be the Plaice-Plaice-Knight translation of the entire work, which was published in Britain in 1986. A US edition of […]
David Ames Curtis, the curator of the Cornelius Castoriadis/Agora International Website, incuded this announcement in the latest issue of his e-mail newsletter (dated July 31). • • • Death of Chris Marker We have just learned of the death of Chris Marker (July 29, 1921 – July 29, 2012, born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve), poet, essayist, critic, translator and […]
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