It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
To read: A selection of books from China Mieville’s list of Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read, which includes books by all kinds of writers, reactionary, conservative, bourgeois, marxist, anarchist, libertarian. The comments are my own.
One poem annoys me terribly, although I have almost grown up with it - its quotes are so familiar to me. The other poem makes me sad and heart-achingly warm. Both were written by men in the early 20th century, living on two different continents, dealing with oppression, dreaming of freedom. Why can I feel [...]
I’ve been in Finland now for almost two weeks, and my bags are getting heavier again. I found Juha Siltala’s great tosson Lapuan liike ja kyyditykset 1930 from 1985, about the fascist extreme nationalist Lapua movement in late 20’s-early 30’s Finland. Valuable reference literature for my thesis, although it isn’t directly related to my subject. [...]
Something like a picture book for academics… 400 pages of b&w and full-colour images of Berliners and their city in the Roaring Twenties.
On the 19th of June in 1865, in Galveston, Texas, the abolition of slavery was announced, and since then the date has been celebrated both within and outside the United States.