“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.”
The Necessity of Communism – Freedom (1887)
The Necessity of Communism – Freedom (1887)
Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)
“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact …
Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)
Cuba attends to more than 250 Haitian migrants
Dominican Today reports that 253 migrants from Haiti were rescued on the Cuban coast on Sunday, December 25. Inclement weather forced them to stop at…
Cuba attends to more than 250 Haitian migrants
Calypsonian Black Stalin dies at 80
Santana Salmon (Caribbean National Weekly) reports that famed Trinidadian calypsonian Black Stalin, known for his lyrics against colonial oppression,…
Calypsonian Black Stalin dies at 80
A startup says it’s begun releasing particles in the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate | MIT Technology Review
Make Sunsets is already attempting to earn revenue for geoengineering, a move likely to provoke widespread criticism.
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/
An Errant Quotation
“She was married, true; but if one’s husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.”
– from Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
Society of the Spectacle
The spectacle is the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue. It is the self-portrait of power in the epoch of its totalitarian management of the conditions of existence.
— Read on www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta – Eyes on the Ties
Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta – Eyes on the Ties
— Read on news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/
Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now – Los Angeles Times
AIs can spit out work in the style of any artist they were trained on — eliminating the need for anyone to hire that artist again.
— Read on www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-21/artificial-intelligence-artists-stability-ai-digital-images
Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society | Culture | The Guardian
Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s
— Read on www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
Aida Rends 