And here’s the UK front cover, which I think is rather wonderful and the opening bit, for those interested. A revolution is a festival of the oppressed. Caeli-Amur was alive with color and energy. Demonstrations coursed along the thoroughfares. Chants reverberated among the buildings. Everyone seemed involved in that carnivalesque atmosphere. In the crisscrossing alleyways, […]
Read more +Selections from Political Writings by Antonio Gramsci My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fascinating collection of Gramsci’s writings from the time of the split from the Italian Socialist Party and the foundation of the PCI. It includes Gramsci’s theorisation of fascism (a petit-bourgeois movement to destroy worker’s democracy), his slow transition to the ‘united […]
Read more +The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is an excellent introduction to the question, “Why is capitalism so crisis prone?” Harvey begins with the events of the 2008 financial crisis and then moves to more abstract considerations such as the widely accepted need […]
Read more +Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason My rating: 4 of 5 stars As a teenager, I was very much into Pink Floyd. There were a number of reasons. First that they had, pretty much, ended their careers by the time I discovered them and so had the exotic feel of […]
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