Book Review: Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan (Feral House, 2002)
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
John Zerzan has been one of the more popular anarchist writers of the past two decades. He is considered one of the main theorists of anarcho-primitivism or green anarchism. His neo-Luddite politics have come to be associated with the 1999 WTO protests a.k.a. “the battle [...]
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Book review: Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan
April 4, 2009
Book Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
August 23, 2008
Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001
Reviewed by Comrade Serve the People (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
When noted Amerikkkan liberal writer Barbara Ehrenreich bemoaned the plight of “the roughly four million women about to be booted into the labor market by welfare reform [for] $6 or $7 an hour” (p. 1) over [...]
Book Review (part 3): Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
June 15, 2008
Review part 3: Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (edited by Zueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, and Bai Di). Rutgers University Press. USA: 2001. Review by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Overall, the autobiographical writings in Some of Us are reactionary. Most of the perspectives in Some of Us are those of elite Chinese women, [...]
Book review: Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past
May 30, 2008
A Maoist-Third Worldist Review of Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past : Mao and the Cultural Revolution (London, Pluto Press, 2008) reviewed by End Imperialism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Mobo Gao’s new book challenges mainstream establishment accounts of socialism in China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. The aim of the book is to present evidence- [...]
Book Review (part 2): Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
May 16, 2008
Review part 2: Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (edited by Zueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, and Bai Di). Rutgers University Press. USA: 2001. Review by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Some of Us is an anthology of autobiographical writings by Chinese women from petty-bourgeois backgrounds who grew up during the Cultural Revolution decade, but [...]
Book Review (part 1): Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
February 14, 2008
Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era (edited by Zueping Zhong, Wang Zheng, and Bai Di). Rutgers University Press. USA: 2001.
Review by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
“[At the fifty-first annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in 1999 panel discussion 'Memory and the Cultural Revolution,' during] the question-and-answer period, someone [...]
MIWS article with commentary by MSH: Lin Biao excerpt on the theory of the productive forces
November 13, 2007
[I have a high degree of unity with the recent article by the fraternal MIWS cell. Maoists are trying to break the fan club approach to leadership and history. The fan club approach to Mao has led to a situation where pre-scientific people avoid engaging with Lin Biao’s great article because of very dubious historical [...]
More on KKKolumbus from RAIM and Shubel Morgan
October 16, 2007
RAIM’s coverage of the KKKolumbus Day event in Denver is up: White trash spectacle opposed, over 80 arrests
Articles from our comrades over at Shubel Morgan/Proletarian Productions:
Las Casas: another oppressor who was somewhat conversant with the language of the oppressed – Part One
Las Casas: another oppressor who was somewhat conversant with the language of the [...]
Shubel Morgan on John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison and today’s fakes
September 4, 2007
Here are some excellent articles by our fraternal comrades at Shubel Morgan:
Review of David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist and Video: John Brown – An Introduction
Why one 19th century racist liberal was more politically advanced than all of today’s white nationalist “leftists” put together – Part One
Why one 19th century racist liberal was more politically [...]
Shubel Morgan’s video adaptation of Long Live the Victory of People’s War!
August 7, 2007
Written in 1965, Lin Biao’s Long Live the Victory of People’s War! is one of the most important revolutionary texts of our era. It puts forward the global analysis and strategy whereby the proletariat and its allies, principally concentrated in the Third World, encircle and crush the First World. The global countryside will encircle and [...]
Book review: Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
April 25, 2007
Ariel Levy
Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Freepress, New York, 2005, 240 pp. hc.
Originally reviewed by Prairie Fire of irtr.org February 2006, review revised April 2007
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Levy’s book documents the rise of raunch culture and the roles that some first world females play in that culture. The book does document something very [...]
Book review: Women at the Gates
June 13, 2005
Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia
Cambridge University Press: USA, 2002
reviewed by Prairie Fire of irtr.org (Originally reviewed June 2005, revised May 2007)
Goldman describes the complex contradictions of Soviet society during the Stalin era, especially in regards to females. She describes the conflict between those who wanted the party to focus on [...]
