"An absolute treat. As well as a brilliantly researched biography of Posadas, and a very witty one, it does far more than lampoon him. Rather, it uses his story (and its legendarization in meme culture) to provide really valuable reflection on revolutionary hope, cults, and the role of irony and despair in the millennial-left milieu." - David Broder, author of 'First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy'
It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Friday, June 05, 2020
TIMES CHANGE EMMA GOLDMAN'S ANARCHIST REVIEW MOTHER EARTH
COVER
https://libcom.org/library/mother-earth
COVER
https://libcom.org/library/mother-earth
THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE BOYLSHEVIKI***
BY Emma Goldman
http://debs.indstate.edu/g6193t7_1918.pdf
as my last contribution before going to Jefferson City, MO., prison for two years, to the Boylsheviki in Russia in appreciation of their glorious work and their inspiration in awakening Boylshevism in America.
***BOLSHEVIKI SPELLING IS IN THE ORIGINAL FRONTPIECE
ANARCHIST EMMA GOLDMAN'S PAMPHLET
IN DEFENSE OF BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA AND AMERICA
PUBLISHED BY HER PUBLISHING HOUSE MOTHER EARTH.
BEFORE SHE WROTE MY DISILLUSIONMENT WITH RUSSIA
BY Emma Goldman
http://debs.indstate.edu/g6193t7_1918.pdf
as my last contribution before going to Jefferson City, MO., prison for two years, to the Boylsheviki in Russia in appreciation of their glorious work and their inspiration in awakening Boylshevism in America.
***BOLSHEVIKI SPELLING IS IN THE ORIGINAL FRONTPIECE
ANARCHIST EMMA GOLDMAN'S PAMPHLET
IN DEFENSE OF BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA AND AMERICA
PUBLISHED BY HER PUBLISHING HOUSE MOTHER EARTH.
BEFORE SHE WROTE MY DISILLUSIONMENT WITH RUSSIA
NEW RELEASE
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Hardcover – May 19, 2020
From the Publisher
"Truly captivating.... Vincent Bevins offers us a compelling historical narrative, which he combines with thorough analysis and deeply personal reflections. He merges the big story of the Cold War with the stories of real individuals whose lives were profoundly affected. He masterfully connects the 1964 Brazil coup with the mass violence that took place in Indonesia in 1965, before connecting that slaughter with a series of mass murder programs in Latin America and around the world. In doing so, he offers new knowledge and insights not only into the brutal anticommunist purge in Indonesia, but into the ways that US foreign policy reshaped the world following the Second World War. Bevins is a brilliant and compassionate writer, and The Jakarta Method is eye-opening. I really hope the world pays attention to this book."―Baskara T. Wardaya, Sanata Dharma University Indonesia, author of 1965 and Truth Will Out
Review
"A shocking portrait that few readers will forget....[Bevins's] research is solid and his conclusions convincing. A well-delineated excavation of yet another dark corner of American history."―Kirkus Reviews
"Trenchant....Powerful....[Bevins] translates the findings of complex scholarly accounts into smooth and readable, if often heartbreaking, prose."
―Boston Review
"Through this transnational perspective, Bevins finds connections between unexpected locations.... [He] takes a broader approach, situating the violence within the global context of the Cold War, but the story he tells is still grounded in deep on-the-ground investigation and extraordinary personal narratives."
―North American Congress on Latin America
"Trenchant....Powerful....[Bevins] translates the findings of complex scholarly accounts into smooth and readable, if often heartbreaking, prose."
―Boston Review
"Through this transnational perspective, Bevins finds connections between unexpected locations.... [He] takes a broader approach, situating the violence within the global context of the Cold War, but the story he tells is still grounded in deep on-the-ground investigation and extraordinary personal narratives."
―North American Congress on Latin America
"Riveting....As a polemic, The Jakarta Method is never anything less than conscientious and persuasive, but Bevins's book truly takes flight as a work of narrative journalism, tracing the history of America's violent meddling in Southeast Asia and Latin America through the stories of those it brutalized."
―Jacobin
"Essential and devastating."
―Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
"In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins argues persuasively that during the Cold War, the U.S. approved of mass murder campaigns to roll back communism in the Third World. This is a provocative, necessary book, an essential guide to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our imperfect world. Highly recommended."―Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer, author of Che Guevara and Inside the Leagu
―Jacobin
"Essential and devastating."
―Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
"In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins argues persuasively that during the Cold War, the U.S. approved of mass murder campaigns to roll back communism in the Third World. This is a provocative, necessary book, an essential guide to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our imperfect world. Highly recommended."―Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer, author of Che Guevara and Inside the Leagu
"The Jakarta Method is a gripping, thoroughly original exploration into the global covert Cold War, the passions it provoked, and the corpses it left in its wake. A full tally of the body count of the transnational counterinsurgency Washington has been waging since the early 1960s is impossible. But Bevins' excellent book offers a different kind of reckoning, of moral costs and ongoing political consequences. 'Jakarta is coming' was spray-painted on the walls of Santiago Chile in 1972, just before that country's CIA-backed coup, a way for that nation's rich to let the poor know the fate that would befall them were they to continue to fight for a more just society. 'Jakarta' did come, leaving hundreds of thousands of dead throughout Latin America. And, in a way, it never left."―Greg Grandin, Yale University, author of Fordlandia and The End of the Myth
"Tragically, that which everyone believed we had left in the past has returned to spread throughout Latin America once more. The Jakarta Method allows us to understand the moment that Brazil is now living through, and its connection to a much larger, global scheme."―Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage
About the Author
Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, reporting from across the entire region and paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 massacre in Indonesia. He previously served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, also covering nearby parts of South America, and before that he worked for the Financial Times in London.
Among the other publications he has written for are the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, Folha de S.Paulo, The New Republic, The New Inquiry, The Awl, The Baffler, and New York magazine. Vincent was born and raised in California and spent the last few years living in Jakarta.
Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Spiritual Phenomena) 1st Edition
by David J. Halperin (Author) https://tinyurl.com/yaumlxb2
A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives.
UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin―but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species.
In the 1960s, Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life's mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies, with traditions of heavenly journeys his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike.
From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It's a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier, our own inner space.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"On one level, this is a book about the UFO phenomenon. On another, this is a book about how a scholar of religion comes to be." (Jeffrey J. Kripal Rice University)
"Whatever it is, the UFO is a real phenomenon. What David Halperin explores is how to interpret phenomena that are neither imagination nor physics but somehow both. Intimate Alien is a thoroughly fascinating dive into a third domain, a genuine twilight zone that is perpetually shimmering between mind and matter." (Dean Radin author of Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe)
"David Halperin doesn't believe in the literal reality of flying saucers, but he understands that they needn't physically exist to teach us lessons about a culture that sees them. Part folklorist and part psychologist, Halperin reads our UFO mythos like an alienist analyzing an extended collective dream." (Jesse Walker author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory)
"It takes a classical scholar to fully challenge the belief in flying saucers, and David J. Halperin is the right expert for the job. Nearly fifty years after we realized we were pursuing the same mystery, I am delighted to see he has valiantly continued on this colorful and occasionally terrifying path." (Jacques Vallée author of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers)
"Whatever it is, the UFO is a real phenomenon. What David Halperin explores is how to interpret phenomena that are neither imagination nor physics but somehow both. Intimate Alien is a thoroughly fascinating dive into a third domain, a genuine twilight zone that is perpetually shimmering between mind and matter." (Dean Radin author of Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe)
"David Halperin doesn't believe in the literal reality of flying saucers, but he understands that they needn't physically exist to teach us lessons about a culture that sees them. Part folklorist and part psychologist, Halperin reads our UFO mythos like an alienist analyzing an extended collective dream." (Jesse Walker author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory)
"It takes a classical scholar to fully challenge the belief in flying saucers, and David J. Halperin is the right expert for the job. Nearly fifty years after we realized we were pursuing the same mystery, I am delighted to see he has valiantly continued on this colorful and occasionally terrifying path." (Jacques Vallée author of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers)
About the Author
David J. Halperin taught Jewish studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, until his retirement in 2000. He has published five nonfiction books on Jewish mysticism and messianism, as well as the coming-of-age novel Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel (2011). He blogs about UFOs, religion, and related subjects at www.davidhalperin.net.
Strange Tales of the Parapolitical is a terrifying journey into the black heart of the national security state and beyond. S. William Snider of the famed VISUP parapolitical blog, and Frank Zero (one-half of ZeroKnight and co-author of CONTACT: Them or Us), the co-hosts of cult hit www.TheFarmPodcast.com, team up once again to bring you this series of essays. Readers will learn how one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the United States has molded both the counterculture and the Christian right for decades. The will discover the most infamous Nazi colony in South America, to say nothing of the arch criminal who ran it. Track the secret history of private military industry and its shocking connection to the Trump presidency. The terrifying implications of the RFID chip round out this volume. Drawing equal inspiration from synchromysticism and the scholarly political research of Peter Dale Scott and Jeffrey Bale, Snider and Zero deliver a surreal and haunting road-map of how we collectively arrived in a Trump era, and where we might go from here.
JUST RELEASED. SELLS FOR 23 DOLLARS I WILL LEAVE THAT ALONE
JUST RELEASED TROTSKYITES IN SPACE
"This book has it all: Trotskyist drama, South American revolutions and aliens from inner and outer space. What's not to like?" - McKenzie Wark
AS A HERESIOLOGIST
I HAVE A FONDNESS FOR 4TH INTERNATIONAL
WHICH I HAVE POSTED HERE ABOUT POSADA
https://tinyurl.com/y7hhbeka
Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, the movement's journey through the fractious and sectarian world of mid-20th century revolutionary socialism was unique. Although at times significant, Posadas' movement was ultimately a failure. As it disintegrated, it increasingly grew to resemble a bizarre cult, detached from the working class it sought to liberate. The renewed interest in Posadism today - especially for its more outlandish fixations - speaks to both a cynicism towards the past and nostalgia for the earnest belief that a better world is possible. Drawing on considerable archival research, and numerous interviews with ex- and current Posadists, I Want to Believe tells the fascinating story of this most unusual socialist movement and considers why it continues to capture the imaginations of leftists today.
"While Posadism is often treated as a political curiosity, quickly set aside, Gittlitz skillfully paints J. Posadas and his followers in all their depth and complexity: paranoid, idealistic, cultish, fractious, bizarre, proud, far-reaching dreamers. In their bizarre, sometimes revolutionary own ways, they fought for a more just world, one that could finally join the ranks of a far more advanced fraternity awaiting them in the galaxy" - Anna Merlan, author of 'Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power'
"This book has it all: Trotskyist drama, South American revolutions and aliens from inner and outer space. What's not to like?" - McKenzie Wark
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism Paperback – April 20, 2020
by A.M. Gittlitz (Author)
AS A HERESIOLOGIST
I HAVE A FONDNESS FOR 4TH INTERNATIONAL
WHICH I HAVE POSTED HERE ABOUT POSADA
https://tinyurl.com/y7hhbeka
Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism. Named after the Argentine Trotskyist J. Posadas, the movement's journey through the fractious and sectarian world of mid-20th century revolutionary socialism was unique. Although at times significant, Posadas' movement was ultimately a failure. As it disintegrated, it increasingly grew to resemble a bizarre cult, detached from the working class it sought to liberate. The renewed interest in Posadism today - especially for its more outlandish fixations - speaks to both a cynicism towards the past and nostalgia for the earnest belief that a better world is possible. Drawing on considerable archival research, and numerous interviews with ex- and current Posadists, I Want to Believe tells the fascinating story of this most unusual socialist movement and considers why it continues to capture the imaginations of leftists today.
SOUNDS LIKE LYNDON LAROUCHE WHO WAS A TROTSKYIST BEFORE HE FORMED HIS OWN FASCIST CULT
OF COURSE MARS IS RED AND THE SOVIET SF WRITERS/SCIENTISTS LIKE BOLSHEVIK CO-FOUNDER BOGHDANOV WROTE ABOUT SPACE COLONIZATION BOTH AS FANTASY FICTION AND AS REAL LIFE SCIENCE.
OF COURSE MARS IS RED AND THE SOVIET SF WRITERS/SCIENTISTS LIKE BOLSHEVIK CO-FOUNDER BOGHDANOV WROTE ABOUT SPACE COLONIZATION BOTH AS FANTASY FICTION AND AS REAL LIFE SCIENCE.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A provocative and clear-eyed account of communist lunacy, its costs, and why we might need it anyway' - Malcolm Harris, author of 'Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials'
"Under the grim pressures of 20th century history, and now climate change, Gittlitz shows how explosions of black political humor also contain utopian hopes very necessary to keep alive. As an advocate of Partially Automated Adequate Socialism I can only agree, and applaud this fine addition to leftist history" - Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy
'This book has it all: Trotskyist drama, South American revolutions and aliens from inner and outer space. What's not to like?'
-- McKenzie Wark, author of 'Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?'
'A provocative and clear-eyed account of communist lunacy, its costs, and why we might need it anyway'
-- Malcolm Harris, author of 'Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials'
'An absolute treat. As well as a brilliantly researched biography of Posadas, and a very witty one, it does far more than lampoon him. Rather, it uses his story (and its legendarisation in meme culture) to provide really valuable reflection on revolutionary hope, cults, and the role of irony and despair in the millennial-left milieu'
-- David Broder, author of 'First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy'
'While Posadism is often treated as a political curiosity, quickly set aside, Gittlitz skillfully paints J. Posadas and his followers in all their depth and complexity: paranoid, idealistic, cultish, fractious, bizarre, proud, far-reaching dreamers. In their bizarre, sometimes revolutionary own ways, they fought for a more just world, one that could finally join the ranks of a far more advanced fraternity awaiting them in the galaxy'
-- Anna Merlan, author of 'Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power'
'Under the grim pressures of 20th century history, and now climate change, Gittlitz shows how explosions of black political humour also contain utopian hopes very necessary to keep alive. As an advocate of Partially Automated Adequate Socialism I can only agree, and applaud this fine addition to leftist history'
-- Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of the Mars TrilogyAbout the Author
A.M. Gittlitz is a journalist and social critic based in Brooklyn, New York. He has contributed to The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Outline, Baffler, Real Life, Salon, and Vice.
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