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Review: The Dawn of Everything
After reading a few Marxist criticisms of Graeber and Wengrow’s book, I decided to take a look because if something displeases a Marxist, it will s…
David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a ‘sudden thinker’
When a friend messaged me a few days ago to ask me if I had heard about David’s death, before the news had been published, my initial reactio…
An Anarchist in Love with Mao’s China – Herbert Read’s ‘Letters from China’.
Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in w…
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Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
