The other 9/11, brief thoughts on Chile, Amerika and China
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
9/11 is a day that will live in infamy, but not because of the attacks on the US that killed over 3,000 people. It is less well known is that September 11th is the anniversary of the overthrow of the elected government of Salvador [...]
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The other 9/11, brief thoughts on Chile, Amerika and China
September 13, 2009
On Exploitation and other stuff.. for the nth time
August 29, 2009
On Exploitation and other stuff.. for the nth time
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“Dear Maoist-Third Worldist,
Here is a question that may have been asked before but perhaps needs further elaboration. I will divide this question into three parts.
1. The United $nakes has a parasitic economy, nearly everyone recognizes this except First World ‘leftists’, even Republicans and Democrats to some degree [...]
Movie Review: The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008)
August 27, 2009
The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008)
by
Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
In The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008), a strange epidemic appears to be sweeping the north eastern US. All of a sudden, crowds of people stop what they are doing and kill themselves. At first, in typical form, the media blames the deaths on terrorists. However, as the group [...]
Review: District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
August 22, 2009
Review: District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
District 9 is a faux documentary that follows the arrival of an alien ship and its, eventual, departure decades later. The film opens with a huge alien ship that hovers above Johannesburg, South Africa. When humans board the ship, they find aliens living in squalor who [...]
Vrai marxisme contre faux marxisme au sujet de la distribution socialiste
August 12, 2009
Vrai marxisme contre faux marxisme au sujet de la distribution socialiste
écrit par Prairie Fire (English version)
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Une distribution mondiale et socialiste des richesses du monde implique une distribution se rapprochant de l’égalitarisme ou bien une distribution dont les seules inégalités sont avantageuses au prolétariat et aux secteurs les plus opprimés de la population mondiale. Dans leur [...]
Real versus Fake Marxism on Socialist Distribution
August 5, 2009
Real versus Fake Marxism on Socialist Distribution
by Prairie Fire (French Version)
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
A global, socialist distribution of the world’s wealth implies a distribution that approaches egalitarianism or a distribution where the only inequalities that exist are ones that benefit the proletariat and most oppressed segments of the global population. These distribution principles, taken together, can be described as [...]
Socialism and Reversal in China’s Countryside: From Great Leap to Flying Leap Part 2 of 5
August 2, 2009
Socialism and Reversal in China’s Countryside: From Great Leap to Flying Leap Part 2 of 5
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
The roots of the Cultural Revolution are in the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap was the first attempt at reaching a higher level socialism that could serve as an immediate bridge to communism. The record of the [...]
Socialism and Reversal in China’s Countryside: From Great Leap to Flying Leap to Reversal Part 1 of 5
July 12, 2009
Socialism and Reversal in China’s Countryside: From Great Leap to Flying Leap to Reversal Part 1 of 5
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
At the time of the revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with most of its population living in the countryside. The level of urbanization and industrialization was higher in pre-revolution, pre-1917 Russia than it was [...]
Dear Maoist-Third Worldist… On the split between Mao and Lin Biao
July 9, 2009
On the split between Mao and Lin Biao
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“Dear Maoist Third Worldist,
I am trying to understand mystery behind Lin Biao’s downfall. Zhou and Deng used many quotations from chairman Mao against Lin but I am little bit confused regarding chairman Mao’s comment. There a lot of books regarding the matter but no one explain the matter [...]
Some tentative thoughts on “the social factory”
July 5, 2009
Some tentative thoughts on “the social factory” (1)
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
The social factory
According to Antonio Negri, there are three distinct phases of capitalist development. And, along with these phases, three distinct types of working class. The “professional worker” is the first type. The “professional worker” is dominant from the middle of the nineteenth century to the [...]
Some thoughts on Marxism and science
May 23, 2009
Some thoughts on Marxism and science
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This discussion is taken from the comments section of another article. Since this is an important topic in its own right, we’ve edited and reposted some of the quotes from the other discussion here. As others add their comments, we will put them in the main body of the article [...]
Movie Review: To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
May 13, 2009
To Live (also Life Times, directed by Zhang Yimou, 1994)
reviewed by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
Based on the 1993 novel by Yu Hua, To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994) is the story of the Xu family as it intersects with some of the most important periods in China’s recent history, the epic of a family intersecting with the epic [...]
Global Inequality or Socialist Equality
May 11, 2009
Global Inequality or Socialist Equality
by Prairie Fire
(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)
It has been suggested that the use of an egalitarian distribution principle as a regulative idea is somehow contrary to approaches that center around the mechanics of exploitation. In particular, it has been suggested that it is contrary to the labor theory of value or the theories of unequal [...]
Answering a few questions on Three Worlds Theory
April 6, 2009
Answering questions on Three Worlds Theory
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The following are answers to a series of questions that a website associated with the defunct MIM has put out as part of a study guide about Three Worlds Theory. (1) The study guide provided on their website is inadequate. Prairie Fire of Monkey Smashes Heaven has provided answers to the [...]
Μερικές σημειώσεις πάνω στις πολιτικές γραμμές μέσα στο Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Κίνας κατά την Μαοϊκή περίοδο
March 30, 2009
[MSH appreciates the hard work of our comrades in translating this document to Greek.]
Some notes on lines within the Chinese Communist Party in the Maoist Period
Μερικές σημειώσεις πάνω στις πολιτικές γραμμές μέσα στο Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Κίνας κατά την Μαοϊκή περίοδο
24η Ιανουαρίου 2008 (Prairie Fire)
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