The premise is somewhat arrogant, I know. I just find it efficient to have a blog you can all check and I would hate to forget to e-mail any of you something I think you should read or would enjoy reading. Recommendations are welcome, though may be ridiculed (privately, of course) or ignored. I plan to have minimal commentary, since my last blog was described by several of you as being a total snoozefest.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Held By the Taliban
Nothing obscure to start with. From this Sunday's NY Times a haunting and vivid first-person account of the current state of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Taliban. Follow the entire five-part piece. I will be.
is a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. MacGowan summarized his approach in the first line of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
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