Richard Littler#NowPlaying the Miles Davis Septet at Chateau Neuf, Oslo, 09 Nov 1971. Keith Jarrett's still in the band at this point.
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Chrysa Katsogridaki
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Political Theory PhD student & translator · Bookworm · Fond of silent films
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Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950. Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists.
As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences...
— With Lenin, Against Hegel? 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' and the Mutations of Western Marxism.
In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56.
#Marxism #Materialism #Lenin #Hegel #Reading #Philosophy #Politics
With Lenin, Against Hegel? 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' and the Mutations of Western Marxism - Historical Materialism
In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56. Introduction: An ‘Eastern’ Materialism? By way of contrast to the texts I’ll be considering
"To understand what was possible in Russia, it was necessary to descend from pure theory to the Russian reality.” Ian Angus illustrates how Marx and Engel's approach to the Russian question surprisingly reads as a response to certain critics from the twenty-first-century.
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https://monthlyreview.org/2022/10/01/marx-and-engels-and-russias-peasant-communes/
The Public Domain ReviewNEW ESSAY — “Here I Gather All the Friends”, in which Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study/
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and finds a space where words mediate the world and the self.
Anarchism NewsLibcom: **The Town Preacher (Der shtot-magid) - Shmuel Gozhansky**
" A popular Bundist pamphlet written by Shmuel Gozhansky in 1897 on behalf of the General Jewish Labor Bund in the Russian Empire. The pamphlet recounts a strike at a tobacco factory in Vilna (modern-day Vilnius, Lithuania) in August 1895 and encourages Jewish workers in the Pale to take on a class-struggle perspective. The open-access text is translated from Yiddish by the Jewish scholar David Fishman and is reproduced here along with Fishman's footnotes. Author Shmuel Gozhansky Jewish L…"
https://libcom.org/article/town-preacher-der-shtot-magid-shmuel-gozhansky
The Town Preacher (Der shtot-magid) - Shmuel Gozhansky
A popular Bundist pamphlet written by Shmuel Gozhansky in 1897 on behalf of the General Jewish Labor Bund in the Russian Empire. The pamphlet recounts a strike at a tobacco factory in Vilna (modern-day Vilnius, Lithuania) in August 1895 and encourages Jewish workers in the Pale to take on a class-struggle perspective. The open-access text is translated from Yiddish by the Jewish scholar David Fishman and is reproduced here along with Fishman's footnotes.
"In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants’ War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war’s victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation."
@bookstodon #Books #Reading #History #Politics #PeasantsWar
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lyndal-roper/summer-of-fire-and-blood/9781541647053/
A digitally restored version of the 1925 silent film INGMARSARVET, directed by Gustaf Molander and starring -among others- Märta Halldén, Ivan Hedqvist, Lars Hanson and Conrad Veidt, is now available online courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute.
This restoration looks stunning and it's also supplemented by a newly written music score, composed and performed by Matti Bye.
The Ingmar Inheritance
When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm. This silent film is presented with new music by Matti Bye. Original title: Ingmarsarvet. The music and subtitles for this film have been made possible thanks to A Season of Classic Films an initiative of ACE – Association des Cinémathèques Européennes supported by the EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme.
"This process of the personalisation of conflicts by focussing on leaders serves to de-contextualise events from their broader setting and erases relevant geo-strategic, economic, and political factors in favour of a myopic focus on the leader in question’s alleged character traits."
An interesting essay by Louis Allday via:
