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| Benjamin Moser’s new book, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, is appearing in half a dozen languages. I reviewed it in German for Junge Welt ("Die ausradierte Kritik") and in English for Left Voice ("Anti-Zionism Hits the Mainstream: A Review of Benjami ...more | |
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| This is Leon Trotsky's most accessible book. It's not as strategically important as The Permanent Revolution, nor as sweeping as The History of the Russian Revolution, nor as urgent as his writings on the rise of fascism in Germany. But this is a str ...more | |
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| Wieland Hoban is a comrade and an inspiration. As chair of Jüdische Stimme (Jewish Voice in Germany), he represents the large and growing sector of the international Jewish community that rejects Zionism and opposes the genocide in Gaza — and he does ...more | |
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| I liked this book so much that I've procrastinated for months — how can I do it justice with a short review? Owen Hatherley presents an overview of Eastern Bloc architecture, but it's neither a coffee-table book nor a technical guide. It's a travelog ...more | |
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With everyone talking about this book on "extreme politicization without political consequences," I needed to read it too. It's pleasantly brief! Jäger's periodization is plausible: most of the 20th century was defined by mass politics, the long 1990s ...more |
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| : Two big books about the assassination of Trotsky have been published this year — the most heinous political assassination of the 20th century continues to fascinate people. I have obviously read more than a little about the plot, but nothing quite ...more | |
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| The twenty-eighth #book I finished in 2026: This is a concise, thorough history of an inconspicuous but consequential office building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz: In 1926, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) bought the building to serve as its national ...more | |
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| I discovered Jason Pargin via his short-form videos on Instagram. He is an astute critic of our atomized digital culture, finding heartfelt and creative ways to help us understand that we are all part of a global community and we should try to apprec ...more | |
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| I often complain about Cory Doctorow's refusal to imagine any kind of non-capitalist society. So a comrade pointed me to his first novel, set a few hundred years in the future, when technology provides free energy and infinite life. This isn't reall ...more | |
“I give myself credit for having seen clearly in a number of important situations. In itself, this is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, goodwill, and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.”
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