BuhbyeLittleGumshoe [he/him]

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  • RethugliKKKans represent the domestic national faction of capital including boat dealership owners, oil guys, military-tech, agribusiness slavers, (and the petty bourgeoise?). They want the US foreign and domestic policy to focus on protectionism and a lot of their culture war stuff is pro-environmental pollution and anti-immigration (as in, they want to keep migrant workers more precarious).

    DemonKKKrats are aligned international finance capital. All of the small business owners and domestic industrialists get disciplined by them as they seek to maximize short term profit over long term infrastructure. Essentially capitalism sabotaging its ability to reproduce itself through making it all fake, a superior method of profit maximization. The smuglord writers of some Mainer seaside lobster boatsman’s paper called The Atlantic are a result of the confidence that comes from being able to literally make money.

    Please correct me if I missed something/messed something, it’s the general relationship and contradiction that counts








    • Anything by E.H. Carr
    • Ragtime (Doctorow). It’s not a history, but Emma Goldman talks to Evelyn Nesbit.
    • Congo from Leopold to Kabila : A Peoples History. Originally read just to learn more about Lumumba, but rest is solid. Author also was guest on Rev Left Radio or Guerilla History.
    • The Furies (Mayer). French and Russian revolutions.
    • Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
    • The Korean War : A History (Cummings)
    • Family of Secrets








  • During the early period of his career, [Phil] Ochs and Bob Dylan had a friendly rivalry. Dylan said of Ochs, “I just can’t keep up with Phil—and he’s gettin’ better and better”. On another occasion, when Ochs criticized either “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” or “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” (sources differ), Dylan threw him out of his limousine, saying, “You’re not a folk singer. You’re a journalist.”

    What an anecdote. Plus his falling out with Pete Seeger. In retrospect, much more than the “pulling the plug” thing, it was about commercial viability and attempting to escape traditional folk music’s association with radicalism. Seeger is partly remembered because later reformed somewhat, but Ochs is gone. purge-1