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Keywords That Reinforce Class Control

Oliver Eagleton Counterfire
Carrying on from Raymond Williams' Keywords, the classic study of capital's appropriation of words for its own ends, the book under review looks at contemporary linguistic usage that serves and reinforces dominant class interests.

Theses On the Path to Socialism

Julio Huato Medium.com
Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.

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Brecht’s Poetry: Angry or Evil?

Michael Wood London Review of Books
An extended ode to the revolutionary German playwright-genius Bertolt Brecht, whose exhaustive new collected poems exalt combating injustice while keeping faith in his fidelity to dissent.

Theses on the Path to Socialism

Julio Huato Medium.com
As a rule, when the people are disposed to struggle, the task of socialists is to help them prepare and organize their political campaigns most carefully. (This was motivated by a discussion regarding Karl Kautsky’s political legacy.)

Ecuador’s Dilemma

Pablo Ospina Peralta Dissent Magazine
The main lesson of correísmo is that no project of transformation, if it wants to sustain and even deepen social change, can weaken the people who propel it forward.
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