moving on from a discussion of the attractions of the Weimar, Tony Judt says and Timothy Snyder records:
The notion that what is wrong with bourgeois democracy is the adjective rather than the noun was a brilliant innovation on the part of Marxist rhetoricians. If the problem with western democracies is that they are bourgeois (whatever that means), then internal critics constrained to live in such places may
“Andenkenkadaver” by Michele Parliament
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“Butcher Bunny” by Mark Ryden
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was looking for R.S.H. when out of Detroit…
to present this material can seem to be the result of having gone looking for proofs naturalising a Jewish – or Zionist – anti-democratic and anti-liberal proclivity – particularly if one is to extrapolate to the dominance of neoliberalism by “social and
democracy was a catastrophe for Jews, who thrived in liberal autocracies: notably in the window that opened up between the eighteenth-century Austrian Empire under Joseph II and its curious apotheosis in the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II, from 1848 to 1916, an era of ongoing political constraint but
R.I.P. Barnaby Jack, November 22, 1977 – July 25, 2013
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a link here to Bruce Sterling’s piece, “The Ecuadorian Library,” thanks F.L. – an excerpt:
Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Google et al, they are all the blood brothers of Huawei in China — because they are intelligence assets posing as commercial operations. They are surveillance marketers. They give you free stuff