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The composers who bridged the gap between the romantic and modern periods created some of the most interesting and memorable works in the canon. This exciting concert will feature works spanning the 20th century from Russia, France, and right here at home. You'll also be treated to a virtuoso performance of Malcolm Forsyth's accordion concerto by Ouartetto Gelato's Alexander Sevastian.
M. Forsyth (1936-2011)
S. Prokofiev (1891-1953)
C. Saint Saens (1835-1921)
N. Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
South African born Canadian composer Malcolm Forsyth composed in the 20th century style, but found it of paramount importance to create music that was both easy and enjoyable to listen to, with a distinctive use of rhythm and orchestral palette that were the hallmarks of his style. He is quoted as saying "I have always have had a sense of responsibility to the audience … I am myself a dedicated audience member, dedicated to the idea of concert music that does sweep people away … Everything I've done is with that experience in mind." Comprising both large orchestral and chamber works his concertos continue to be particularly popular, none more so than his work for Accordion, one of the few full length orchestral concertos ever written for that instrument.
It is perhaps fitting that Serge Prokofiev composed the ballet score for Shakespeare's great tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Although Prokofiev's immense talent and popularity had earned him the opportunity to leave Russia shortly after the revolution in 1919 he was constantly courted by the Soviet Regime to return and take his rightful place as a state composer. In 1936, after several successful visits he relented and settled his family in Moscow. Forced to adapt to his circumstances there, he composed several patriotic works and modified some of his earlier pieces to please the regime. His masterful ballet, Romeo and Juliet was among these. The composer had originally conceived of a happier ending for the two young lovers, having them exiled rather than allowing them to die, but Soviet purists decreed that this ending should revert to the original. This may be the only positive influence that Stalin and his cohorts had on the life and work of the unhappy composer. They censored his operas, jailed his wife, and ignored his death (which took place on the same day as that of Joseph Stalin). His brilliance, however has led to a great deal of posthumous acclaim, and is today he is considered to be one of the most popular composers of 20th century music.
Saint Saens' Sampson and Delilah, based upon the biblical tale, is the only one of the composer's operas that continues to be widely performed. It had its premiere in Weimar in 1877, having been rejected in Paris for its biblical subject matter. The exotic and suggestive Bacchanale is perhaps its best known excerpt, a showpiece in which Delilah leads a wild and provocative dance to tempt Sampson. Camille Saint Saens was a noted conservative and curmudgeon but his passionate writing, so evident in this frenzied, sensual work, suggests that perhaps his music was the outlet that he used to express his pent up imaginations and desires.
Scheherazade is the young bride of the Sultan, destined to die the morning after her wedding night. Indeed, following the infidelity of his first wife the Sultan has not let a single bride live past that first morning. Scheherazade disrupts this fate with her prowess as a storyteller. Each night she weaves a fascinating tale, promising to finish it the next evening, should the Sultan let her live. This cliffhanger lifestyle carries on for 1,001 Arabian nights until the Sultan, now enamoured of his brilliant wife agrees to let her, and all future spouses, live.
Rimsky-Korsikov wrote this symphonic suite in 1888 using the orchestra as the characters in his dramatic retelling. The Sultan is the burly voiced orchestra, Scheherazade herself is represented by a solo violin. She weaves her tales skillfully through the movements of the piece, looping in themes of each previous movement to the next. Finally our symphonic tales concludes with a conciliatory Sultan, forgetting to remind the executioner to return the next day, saving the young princess's life.


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Time capsule: here are the best devices from MWC... from 5 years ago
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1. bucky (Posts: 3134; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
Ah the (exynos) s2. One the very best phones I've ever owned. Touchwiz didn't lag at all with that version gingerbread.
21. Shocky (unregistered)
Yes, it did lag and even had the usual app launch delays that were associated with touchwiz up-to the Galaxy Note 4.
However compared to the original Galaxy S it was a night and day difference.
It was a great SoC at the time, coped with everything extremely well, even things it shouldn't have been able to handle like Tegra games using chainfire 3d.
My only grip with that phone was the low resolution display.
2. aesthetics (Posts: 128; Member since: 02 Oct 2014)
An Xperia Play 2 please, with SD820 and 5" screen, + games like GTA4 :D
12. kkmkk (Posts: 546; Member since: 06 May 2013)
what about no ? Sony cant take any risk right now as they are very near of being kicked out from the market
24. drifter77 (Posts: 287; Member since: 12 Jun 2015)
Sony is a love-hate company. Childhood memories with Betamax video and walkman, Sony stood out for years. I'm no industry expert but they really need to refresh their mobile division to stay in the game. Their previous partnership with Ericsson didn't sell well either.
25. monoke (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Mar 2015)
I'd buy if there was slimmer profile and bigger game catalogue. It's a huge differentiator as all android's are the same these days. Too gimmicky first time around, maybe not the second imo.
3. GreenMan (Posts: 1817; Member since: 09 Nov 2015)
I really truly deeply surely miserably miss those SLIDERS! Like this HP (Which I've never heard of before!) and Blackberry Torch! And I also miss the ones with T9 Keyboards on board.... Like Nokia N92 or C2 etc...
Now, those darn slates are all the rage now! I hate slates, I despise slates, I dislike slates, I can't take slates, I don't want slates, I...... (Narrator: And the whining goes on and on)
4. GreenMan (Posts: 1817; Member since: 09 Nov 2015)
Time capsule: here are the best devices from MWC... from 5 years ago...
Now how about this:
"TIME MACHINE": here are the best devices from MWC... 5 years from now...
16. Arch_Fiend (Posts: 3371; Member since: 03 Oct 2015)
Not possible......yet?
5. Xperia14 (Posts: 914; Member since: 01 Sep 2015)
I got the Galaxy S2 which I loved. It's not working anymore unfortunately..
11. Techist (Posts: 281; Member since: 27 Jan 2015)
Mine still does. It truly was one fine phone. Unsurprisingly it won plenty of accolades, including CNET's best phone of 2011, the T3 Awards phone of the year, #1 on Consumer Reports, etc.
22. Rocket (Posts: 434; Member since: 24 Feb 2014)
mine still is and work like new using it on freedom pop :)
6. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1639; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
I truly think the Pre and WebOS operating system could've been the third major ecosystem if it was bought out by any other company than HP. I honestly think Blackberry should've bought it out and used it since they were both geared towards business/productivity users. I used a Pre Plus and it was one of the smoothest devices I have ever used. I couldn't believe it was underpowered in terms of specifications.
19. Crispin_Gatieza (Posts: 2108; Member since: 23 Jan 2014)
Wireless charging, tap-to-share, full contact integration, swipe gestures, universal search, homebrew app "store". All webOS firsts and still the best. Their hardware is what did them in. That, and those ridiculous ads with Manny Pacquiao.
26. monoke (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Mar 2015)
Yup. It had the smoothness of ios and more functionality than either os during its time. I liked its multitasking panel. Apps truly stayed open I believe. webos with today's hardware would be awesome for me!
7. GeorgeDao123 (Posts: 431; Member since: 20 Aug 2013)
The girls in S II picture are the best.
8. natypes (Posts: 1106; Member since: 02 Feb 2015)
Brings back memories, especially the Android Market screen shots. I had an HTC Thunderbolt then.
9. avishekmukherjee (Posts: 354; Member since: 09 Apr 2015)
Has the Xperia Play and Samsung galaxy S2
both working fine :)
10. shield (Posts: 527; Member since: 12 Sep 2015)
LG optimus 2x first Dual-core smartphone 2010 december.
13. RuneMaster (Posts: 75; Member since: 31 May 2015)
I still like the design of Galaxy S2.
14. Biernot (unregistered)
i see 2015 iphone specs
15. Podrick (Posts: 1142; Member since: 19 Aug 2015)
Still have the S2. Awesome device. Great performance.
17. htcisthebest (Posts: 294; Member since: 15 Nov 2011)
Hot ladies
18. legiloca (Posts: 1461; Member since: 11 Nov 2014)
2011 was the time I got so in love with phones with TV antennas I just don't know why, I never had an Android smartphone till late 2012 from a local company and guess what, it had this TV antenna once again lol..
good times
20. skymitch89 (Posts: 1363; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
I've still got my S2 (Epic Touch on Sprint) that I got few years ago. I have to say, it's still a relatively fast device for what it is. I was actually surprised about a couple months ago by Samsung, they sent an update to fix the "stage fright" issue on it.
23. Nexus4lifes (Posts: 208; Member since: 13 Feb 2014)
S2 had a super amoled PLUS screen, where has that tech gone sammy? we are seeing super amoled screens only from then on. Loved that display on the S2...
27. monoke (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Mar 2015)
Was the plus screen non-pentile? Is that the key difference from regular amoled?
29. OdysseasP (Posts: 64; Member since: 08 Aug 2014)
Samsung Galaxy S2 was the only S series flagship smartphone from Samsung which featured a Super Amoled Plus screen. The Plus designation meant that the screen combined the advantages of Super Amoled screens, such as deep black reproduction, excellent contrast and wide viewing angles, with a standard RGB sub pixel layout. On the contrary, typical Super Amoled screens on Samsung Galaxy S/S3/S4/S5/S6 feature pen tile matrix sub pixel layout, meaning that for each pixel there are two sub pixels (Red & Green) instead of the three (RGB - Red, Green & Blue). Blue sub pixels are being shared between neibouring pixels, reducing the actual resolution of the screen to about 30-50% in comparison to a non pen tile screen featuring standard RGB subpixel layout. But because the number of pixels which have to be moved on the screen is the one stated by the manufacturer, it is just that the pixels aren't that sharp, the GPU has to work overtime in order to cope with the increased work load. This with its turn increases energy requirements, meaning that the phone runs out of battery faster than it would otherwise. While the move from a pen tile matrix sub pixel layout screen on the Samsung Galaxy S to a standard RGB sub pixel layout screen on the Samsung Galaxy S2 was considered a step in the right direction for Samsung at the time, the move back to a pen tile matrix sub pixel layout screen on the following Samsung Galaxy S3 and all the models which replaced it had a negative impact for Samsung among tech fans. Samsung publicly stated that this was done due to the fact that the Blue sub pixels were aging faster than both Red & Green, and by reducing their number resulted in a screen with less colour fading over time, which supposedly Samsung Galaxy S2 was suffering from. Of course Samsung never mentioned side benefits such as lower cost of production, increased profit margins, simpler production lines or increased production yields.
28. TerryTerius (unregistered)
Wait.... The One-77 came out in 2011? Damn, time is moving at a serious clip.


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So no interest yet. Let me add a few more things before I post to craigslist.
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I'm curvy but I feel unattractive too.
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I'm curvy but I feel unattractive too.
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Tha FUCK
Just what sort of response are you looking for here?
You know... I like food just as much as the next person do but unless you have a metabolic disorder there's simply not a reason to do... this to yourself.
I dont eat much at all.
I need to consult someone for wisdom.
Oh wise one , how shall I go about this?
For example: When I went to McDonald's today, I only ate 4 mcdoubles 2 large fries a large shake and a large coke
What are you trying to achieve here?
Why would any sane person publicize herself like this?
The only logical explanation I can think of is... you have a beef with the person in the picture and is not trying to rip her a new one on the internet by anti-catfishing. If not. Will Graham taught us the lesson of "stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back"
is now I meant
Looks like a troll to me, but I haven't read any other of her replies yet.
You've broken the scale...
Funny thing is, I first thought this was a joke. But, then I did a reverse google image search to see if this picture was anywhere else on the internet, but there was nothing. That means this might be real, and if it is, let me lay down the truth for you.
You aren't overweight, you aren't even obese. You aren't even morbidly obese. You are a grotesquely obese shell of a human being. I'd honestly be surprised if you make it past the age of 35 at your current weight. You need to lose some fucking weight NOW. You are on the verge of death at that weight,
Seriously, what the hell were you thinking? Did you not see this monstrous body coming at all? You did this to yourself, but you can change, and you definitely need to change. Check out the Mifflin-St. Jeor calculator, and eat 2000 less calories a day than the number it gives you for calories burned. You need to start today.
Now stop this madness.
Obvious troll is obvious.
A cell phone didn't provide a big enough frame for yo big ass huh lol?
I'm sorry to say, but you're obese and not curvy. In any case, there are plenty of people that can relate and possible want to lose some weight. You can start by trying to do some exercises at home and try to eat as healthier as possible. I'm not telling you to lose weight by any means, but I am suggesting and just trying to look out for you.
Well you're more than just curvy, but I don't discriminate against overweight people, as I know what it's like to be overweight. But you're pretty damn confident I'll give you that, I'd still date you though but I won't rate you because I think it's very disrespectful in my opinion.
Fake picture, troll.
You have balls to do this
Sorry but that's not "curvy" anymore. This is unhealthy and you need to do something about it.
"Curvy" obvious troll is obvious...
Do you wanna date me , I have a fantasy of being squashed by a fat girl
You have potential to be very attractive, but your belly is a bit off putting
Your're ok, I would'nt turn a date with you... There are far worser looking fat girls and skinny girls
You have a very attractive face. But your belly and thighs stand out more to people and it kills your overall attractiveness. If you lose a good bit of weight, you would end up very healthy... and extremely attractive.
That's my issue as well primarily in case you are curious. I'm trying to find a way to fit exercising into my schedule where I spend 11 hours between work and driving.
1.) You are a troll
2.) if you are not a troll then 1/10
3.) 10/10 for your Confidence..
Vomit in my mouth/10
Wow! Um... I'm not sure what to say.
you're not hot stop thinking you are such.
negative scale good enough
I'd say a 4 out of 10 no no wait! a 2 out of 10 because you look like a Mech from Starwars II revenge of the sith.
You over curvy i think have a great head and face but you really need do something with you body but i know this inst really you. But i rate you minus ten out of ten. -10 of +10
You're a 10 out of 10 tons!
How long can you survive like that until we have to push you back into the ocean?
Lmao, you're funny.
@SwaggerOnStupid AGREED
@ the ANON GAGuy I'm not going to LIE
I"m stealing this 1 LOLOLOL
Well if she stays on the beach too long, we'll have to blow her up with dynamite. So maybe we do?
Ahh, but I enjoy living in my anonymity and unsung-ness :D
i1127.photobucket.com/.../...m_MjEwNzAwNzg5MDQ.jpg read that ᕙ (^▿^-ᕙ)
you're face is pretty, but you're really overweight hun.
worried about your health and future if you dont start getting healthier...
If this is you, ignore the hate here, but it is true that you'll have to lose quite a few pounds.
like everyone else, admire the confidence but i dont think you're healthy right now
Is this a real question? Is that really you in the picture? I think it would help everyone if you posted another picture but with you having the words GAG asker written on a piece of paper
Also I suggest start living a healthy life style. Subscribe to a gym plan and start lessening your food intake.
Obvious troll. I think it's not very nice to make obese people ridiculous. This girl has serious problems and it's not nice to make fun of her. Stop trolling about obese people.
Wow... umm 1, I'm being generous. That's not curvy that's just well unhealthy, to say the least.
Well, the camera always adds a couple hundred pounds.
So um... where are the curves?
If you want to troll, at least have some balls instead of hiding behind anonymous
lmfao I admire your confidence... or whatever
Well if this I real..
You are obese to start out... Sorry sister
But you have a nice face :)
That is not curvy.
I would rate you a two just because it's un healthy
You're curvy? Well the planet is curvy too!
This is a joke right. Not trying to be rude but I seriously don't know
No its not a joke.
Well you should get a personal trainer. You are not curvy you are very overweight which is very unhealthy. Your face is not bad but just work out so you can actually become curvy
I do exercise, a lot actually.
What kind of workouts?
I took a ten minute walk today for instance. I do that about 3 times a week.
Well that is not nearly enough. I still think this is a joke just tell me it's a joke
It's not a joke.
Lol okay well good luck to you hun!
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I'm going down I've had my fill
I've no regrets or remorse
I've said my peace I've took my pill
Let nature take its course.
I've shed my tears I've lost my friends
I've come through the darkest hour
There's no more reason to act or pretend
No need for wealth or power.
I feel at peace I yearn no more
Emotions have flown the game
I don't react or defend myself
I no longer have a name.
I'm broken down dismissed excused
Allowed to drift away
I hope to God I never return
Let this be my final day!
I look around and see the pain
The destruction and the fear
I feel so lucky to be going back home
The end is drawing near.
This crazy earth no sense no worth
No order no control
We're revolving together dissolving into never
Right down the black hole!
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Introduction to Communism
This section is highly recommended for people who are completely new to communism or new to the ultra-left.
Capitalism and Communism:
- Facing Reality – What Is Capitalism? How Do We Break Free From It?
- Libcom – Introductory Guide
- prole.info – Work Community Politics War
- prole.info – Abolish Restaurants
- Marcel – Hamburgers vs Value
- Müller – Do Chefs Dream of Cloned Sheep?
- prole.info – The Housing Monster
- Perlman – The Reproduction of Everyday Life
- Kolinko – The Subversion of Everyday Life
- Dauvé – Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
- Eden Sauvage – Brief Notes on the Real Movement, Organization, and Ideology
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- American Fraction of the Left Communist International – Aspects of the Russian Question
- GCI-ICG – Towards a Synthesis of Our Positions
- Class War – Programmatical Positions
- The Poor, the Bad and the Angry – A Contribution to the Politics of the Future
- Insurgent Notes – Presenting Insurgent Notes
- Solidarity (UK) – As We See It & As We Don't See It
- Facing Reality – Towards a Revolutionary Left
- Internationalist Perspective – The World As We See It: Reference Points
- Blaumachen – The Era of Riots Has Started
- Blaumachen – The Transitional Phase of the Crisis: The Era of Riots
- Neel – Why Riot?
- JF – Loot Back: From Whom?
- NPC – Fires That Have Burned for As Long As We Can Remember
- Neel – Counting Riots
Marx consistently uses dialectics in some of his major works, such as Capital, and comprehending the logic behind dialectics and why they are useful is key for understanding Marx.
- Eden Sauvage – Marx's Dialectical Method
- Wolf – Dialectics: An Introduction
- Maybee – Hegel's Dialectics
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1. Introduction: "Read Marx, not the 'Marxists'!":
The hardest part about reading Karl Marx is freeing the mind of all of the distortions and lies surrounding Marx's thought. Starting with the 2nd International (and some might say, starting with Friedrich Engels), there has been a tendency to read Marx's thought as a rigid, positivist, determinist, and mechanical doctrine. Hence the birth of "Marxism". Let me be clear that Marx would have been appalled how his "loyal" followers bastardized his thought. Stalin and company did not help at all and in fact furthered this tendency by codifying "Marxism" into a bourgeois state ideology, one to justify the powers that be in various ways instead of being their radical critique.
It is time to discard all preconceptions of Marx, whether learned from the popular media, from teachers and professors, or from the "Marxists" of various stripes, including the Orthodox, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, Trotskyist, and Althusserian varieties. It is time to read Marx for what he was and this means reading Marx down to the letter without the mediating influence of a thousand misconceptions. Only then can we truly see Marx's thought for what it truly is: a major step towards understanding how the working class can emancipate itself and therefore emancipate humanity, as well as a guide to critiquing the inhumanity of the world we live in and to understanding how we might be able to live humanly as freely associated social individuals under communism. There is no such thing as an innocent reading of any important world figure; everyone interpreting Marx has their own agenda in mind. My only hope is that you, the reader, will take the most radical of agendas, the emancipation of the working class and humanity, as well as the "ruthless criticism of all that exists" (Marx, Letter to Ruge, September 1843), and embrace it as their own.
However, we should not only read Marx but also the works of those who fought hard to defend the authentic core of Marx's thought against various distorted "Marxisms". This includes reading Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, Amadeo Bordiga, Guy Debord, Raya Dunayevskaya, Gilles Dauvé, Cyril Smith, and Michael Heinrich, among many others. Again, because no one can be a neutral interpreter of Marx, we must read these authors critically and see the differences between their ideas and Marx's ideas.
A remark on Engels. "Marxism" treats Engels, Marx's close friend and collaborator, as essentially a second head of Marx, seeing Engels as being in approximately one hundred percent coherence with Marx on all accounts. In fact, Engels, though closely associated with Marx's thought, should not be conflated with Marx. Engels was neither a neutral arbiter of Marx's thought nor did he and Marx agree on all points; rather, he was a great and independent thinker in his own right. Though the way that Engels interpreted Marx in matters of Marx's critique of philosophy, political economy, and utopian socialism made it easier for the 2nd International to distort Marx's thought into a mechanistic, positivist doctrine, we cannot blame Engels for the way that "Marxism" turned out. "Marxism's" enormous distortions, innovated by Kautsky, Bernstein, Plekhanov, and company, go far beyond Engels's miniscule mistakes. Nevertheless, the point I am trying to get across is that we should read Engels' self-written works critically and realize that it was a completely different thinker who wrote those pieces, not the second head of Marx.
Another thought on interpreting Marx. We should not take Marx's thought as some static doctrine thrown down from heaven, applicable in its entirety to any and all circumstances, but rather as a living body of thought. To take Marx's thought as dogma would be contrary to Marx's own method of "ruthless criticism of all that exists", including ruthless criticism of Marx's thought itself. There are numerous gaps and lacunae in Marx's works, including large blind spots when it comes to the ever-present problems of race and gender. Marx also wrote for the 19th century and in the 21st century; the economic base, legal-political superstructure, and social consciousness have certainly changed a great deal. This is not an invitation to throw the baby out with the bathwater and discard Marx's thought for some kind of postmodernist relativism, but rather to modernize Marx's thought for the 21st century while keeping the fundamental invariants of Marxism, including the conception of Communism as "the real movement [of the proletariat] that abolishes the current state of things [i.e. the capitalist mode of production, including private property, class, capital, wage-labor, and commodity production]" (Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, 1845).
Further reinforcing the fact that we cannot take Marx's ideas as a fixed and absolute dogma is the fact that Marx had many errors in praxis. Some of Marx's errors include continuing to endorse and work within the trade union movement, as well as supporting the national liberation of Poland. We need to read Marx critically in light of these mistakes.
Finally, I have three links below that I recommend the reader to go over before starting either their first reading or re-reading of Marx.
The Blunden introduction below gives an overview of common misperceptions of Marx's thought and character. It is a good overview for those who have read a fair bit of the "standard" interpretation of Marx (Including but not limited to the Orthodox, Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, and Maoist interpretations, as well as the interpretations of Marx created by opponents of Marx's thought), as a way of deprogramming oneself from the various ways that "standard Marxists" and opponents of Marx have distorted Marx's thought.
In addition, the McQueen article below tries to make the act of reading Marx less daunting, by explaining Marx's writing style, informing us about what exactly makes Marx's writing so compelling, and telling us where the actual difficulties of Marx lie as well as how to overcome them.
The Rubel article helps dispel the myth that Marx and Engels shared the same views and encourages us to keep this distinction in mind while reading their works.
Finally, the Elbe article exposes different ways of interpreting Marx, in particular the Orthodox "Worldview" School, the Western Marxism School, and the Neue Marx-Lektüre School.
- Blunden – Marx Myths and Legends. Introduction
- McQueen – Reading the "Unreadable" Marx
- Rubel – The Legend of Marx, or "Engels the Founder"
- Elbe – Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marx's Theory
Now it is time for Marx to speak for himself and I will list Marx's (and Engels's) works in the order that makes the most sense to me. The reader can obviously choose their own path through these texts.
2. The Basics of the Communist Orientation:
These works lay down the foundation for the communist point of view. Readers should probably read through these texts multiple times and take notes before moving onto future sections.
- Communism 101:
- Basics of the Critique of Political Economy:
- Basics of the Materialist Conception of History:
- Basics of Revolutionary Trajectory:
- Secondary Literature for Manifesto of the Communist Party:
- Secondary Literature for Critique of the Gotha Program:
- Chattopadhyay – A Manifesto of Emancipation: Marx's "Marginal Notes to the Program of the German Workers' Party" after One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – The Communist Manifesto of 1875: The Critique of the Gotha Programme
- Draper – The "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in Marx and Engels
3. Critique of Political Economy:
These works include Marx's Magnum Opus of Capital (A work that he never finished), as well as works introducing Capital, antecedent to Capital, and after Capital. The Heinrich work is of the Neue Marx-Lektüre school and the Fine & Saad-Filho work is of the Temporal Single-System Interpretation school. I recommend the Heinrich book's interpretation over the Fine & Saad-Filho book's interpretation, though you should read both interpretations of Marx.
- What to Read Before Capital Vol. I-III:
- Capital Volumes I-III:
- What to Read Alongside Capital Vol. I-III:
- Grundrisse:
- Theories of Surplus Value:
- Other:
- Marx – Draft of an Article on Friedrich List's book: Das Nationale System der Politischen Oekonomie
- Marx – The Poverty of Philosophy
- Marx – A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy
- Marx – Results of the Direct Production Process
- Marx – Economic Manuscript of 1864-1865 (Draft Version of Capital Volume III)
- Marx – Marginal Notes on Wagner's Politischer Oekonomie
4. Young Marx:
These works tended to emphasize the Humanist, Hegelian dimension of Marx's thought. Particularly important in Young Marx was his theory of alienation and his theory of communism as the reconciliation of humanity with its human essence and its species-being. Young Marx was heavily influenced by both Hegel's dialectics and Feuerbach's materialism.
- Origins of Marx's Thought:
- Critique of Political Philosophy:
- Critique of Political Economy:
- Critique of the Young Hegelians:
- Secondary Literature on On the Jewish Question:
5. Break with Feuerbach:
These two works represent Marx's critique of Feuerbach's contemplative materialism and conception of human nature, after he moved away from his previous Feuerbachian problematic as expressed in his earlier works. Marx also posits his new way of viewing the world, taking the standpoint of socialized humanity and the relation between human being and human being as the starting point of his critique.
6. Materialist Conception of History:
Marx applied the materialist conception of history first elaborated in The German Ideology to other historical events of interest.
- Marx – The Class Struggle in France, 1848 to 1850
- Marx – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
- Marx – The Ethnological Notebooks
- Marx – Letter to Zasulich (1881)
7. Engels's Popularizations, Applications, Explanations and Defenses of Marx's Thought:
Engels in his later life continued to defend what he saw as Marx's thought. Here we see differences in the way that Engels and Marx approached questions of philosophy, political economy, and socialism. Read these writings critically, in light of the fact that Marx and Engels were two separate people. In particular, Engels:
- Had a positivist, natural-law interpretation of dialectics and science (Marx had a critical, negative conception of dialectics and science, and never thought that dialectics were laws of nature).
- Conceived of Marx's critique of political economy as a mere improvement of bourgeois political economy (Marx saw his critique of political economy as a radical break with the entire field of political economy as a whole).
- Saw "scientific" socialism to some extent as a positivist, empiricist doctrine (Marx saw his socialism as "scientific" only in opposition to "Utopian" socialism).
- Engel's Articles and Books:
- Engels – The Peasant War in Germany
- Engels – Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
- Engels – On Authority
- Engels – Anti-Dühring
- Engels – Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- Engels – Dialectics of Nature
- Engels – The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State
- Engels – Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
- Engel's Letters:
- Engels – Letter to Lavrov (1875)
- Engels – Letter to Bebel (1884)
- Engels – Letter to Kelley-Wischnewetzky (1886)
- Engels – Letter to Schmidt (1890)
- Engels – Letter to Boenigk (1890)
- Engels – Letter to Bloch (1890)
- Engels – Letter to Schmidt (1890)
- Engels – Letter to Mehring (1893)
- Engels – Letter to Danielson (1893)
- Engels – Letter to Borgius (1894)
- Engels – Letter to Sombart (1895)
8. Minor Works:
You can probably get away with not reading these, but for the real Marx nerds or scholars out there, reading these might be fun.
- Engels – The Condition of the Working Class in England
- Marx – The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution
- Marx and Engels – Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
- Marx – The Cologne Communist Trial
- Marx – Speech at Anniversary of The People's Paper
- Marx – Inaugural Address of the International Working Men's Association
- Marx – General Rules of the International Working Men's Association
- Marx – Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council
- Marx and Engels – Fictitious Splits in the International
- Marx – The Nationalization of the Land
- Engels – The Housing Question
- Engels – Karl Marx
- Engels – Engels' Burial Speech
- Engels – On the History of the Communist League
- Engels – Critique of the Erfurt Program
- Engels – The Peasant Question in France and Germany
- Marx – Notes on Ricardo
- Marx and Engels – Marx Engels on Literature and Art
- Marx – Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts
9. Collected Works:
The Marx and Engels Collected Works contains all of the minor English-translated works and letters written by Marx and Engels throughout their lifetime that were not included earlier in this list. Again, this is for the hardcore Marx nerds and scholars out there. The real deal is the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, which is the full list of Marx and Engels works, but it is so far only in German aside from selected works.
Given how much Marx was influenced by Hegel, it makes sense for you as the reader to go back to Hegel so as to improve the quality of your interpretation of Marx. Thus, I have here some of Hegel's actual works. After reading these works, it might be worthwhile to go through Marx's main texts again to see if there is anything new you can pick up from them.
György Lukács
Lukács developed a theory of reification, which you can read in his work below. He also penned a critique of Engels' natural law interpretation of dialectics, arguing that there could be no dialectics of nature. The stuff on the party-form here is just Soviet apologia, so please excuse that.
Ultra-Left Currents and Their Critique
This includes writings by ultra-left currents, as well as criticism of those ultra-left currents by other ultra-leftists.
Rosa Luxemburg:
- Luxemburg – Reform or Revolution
- Luxemburg – Leninism or Marxism?
- Luxemburg – The National Question
- Luxemburg – The Mass Strike
- Luxemburg – The Russian Revolution
Introduction to the Classic Ultra-Left (Dutch-German Left, Italian Left, and French Left):
- Oisin Mac Giollamoir – Left Communism and Its Ideology
- Shipway – Council Communism
- Gerber – From Left Radicalism to Council Communism: Anton Pannekoek and German Revolutionary Marxism
- Goldner – Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
- Buick – Bordigism
- Bourrinet – The Bordigist Current
- Linden – Socialisme ou Barbarie: A French Revolutionary Group, 1949-1965
- Matthews – An Introduction to the Situationists
- Morgan and Purje – An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle"
Dutch-German Left (Council Communist):
- Pannekoek – World Revolution and Communist Tactics
- Gorter – Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
- Korsch – Marxism and Philosophy
- Gorter – The World Revolution
- Pannekoek – The Theory of the Collapse of Capitalism
- Pannekoek – Trade Unionism
- Pannekoek – Workers' Councils (Article)
- Pannekoek – Party and Class
- Pannekoek – State Capitalism and Dictatorship
- Korsch – Passing of Marxian Orthodoxy: Bernstein-Kautsky-Luxemburg-Lenin
- Pannekoek – Lenin as Philosopher
- Pannekoek – General Remarks on the Question of Organization
- Mattick – The Masses and the Vanguard
- Mattick – Council Communism
- Rühle – The Struggle against Fascism Begins with the Struggle against Bolshevism
- Pannekoek – Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed
- Pannekoek – Materialism and Historical Materialism
- Pannekoek – Workers' Councils (Book)
- Korsch – Ten Theses on Marxism Today
- Mattick – Nationalism and Socialism
- Mattick – Introduction to Anti-Bolshevik Communism
- Mattick – Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Italian Left (Bordigist):
- Bordiga – The System of Communist Representation
- Bordiga – Is This the Time to Form Soviets?
- Bordiga – Towards the Establishment of Workers' Councils in Italy
- Bordiga – Seize Power or Seize the Factory?
- Bordiga – Party and Class
- Bordiga – Party and Class Action
- Bordiga – The Democratic Principle
- Bordiga – The Lyons Theses
- Bordiga – Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle
- Bordiga – Class Struggle and Bosses' Offensives
- Bordiga – On the Dialectical Method
- Bordiga – Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party
- Bordiga – Fundamental Theses of the Party
- Bordiga – Murder of the Dead
- Bordiga – Activism
- Bordiga – Marxism of the Stammerers
- Bordiga – The Historial "Invariance" of Marxism
- Bordiga – Spirit of Horsepower
- Bordiga – Lessons of the Counterrevolutions
- Bordiga – The Fundamentals of Revoutionary Communism
- Bordiga – Considerations on the Party's Organic Activity when the General Situation is Historically Unfavorable
French Left (Socialisme ou Barbarie and the Situationist International):
- Castoriadis – On the Content of Socialism: Part One
- Castoriadis – On the Content of Socialism: Part Two
- Castoriadis – On the Content of Socialism: Part Three
- Castoriadis – The Working Class and Organization
- Castoriadis – The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
- Castoriadis – The Fate of Marxism
- Castoriadis – Worker Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society
- Castoriadis – History as Creation
- Riesel – Preliminaries on Councils and Councilist Organization
- Socialisme ou Barbarie – The Proletariat and Organization
- Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
- Debord – Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
- Vaneigem – The Revolution of Everyday Life
- Vaneigem – Basic Banalities I
- Vaneigem – Basic Banalities II
- Paolo Salvadori – Provisional Theses for the Discussion of New Theoretico-Practical Orientation in the SI
- Debord – Untitled Text
Analysis of the Classic Ultra-Left:
- Dauvé – Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga
- Dauvé – Critique of the Situationist International
- Troploin – Re-Collecting Our Past
- Aufheben – Whatever Happened to the Situationists?
- Troploin – Back to the Situationist International
- Antagonism – Bordiga versus Pannekoek
- Aufheben – Communist Theory: Beyond the Ultra-Left
Introduction to Jacques Camatte (Post-Bordigist):
Jacques Camatte:
Introduction to the American Left:
American Left (Marxist-Humanists):
- James – Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
- James – Notes on Dialectics
- James & Dunayevskaya – State Capitalism and World Revolution
- Dunayevskaya – Marx's Humanism Today
- Dunayevskaya – Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx's Capital
- Smith – Raya Dunayevskaya and "Dialectical Materialism"
- Smith – Marx at the Millennium
- Smith – Karl Marx and the Future of the Human
- Negri – Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse
- Cleaver – Reading Capital Politically
- Wright – Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
- Holloway – Change the World Without Taking Power
- Holloway – Crack Capitalism
Analysis of the Autonomists:
Angry Workers World:
Monsieur Dupont (Nihilist Communist):
- Monsieur Dupont – What's It All About, Comrade?
- Monsieur Dupont – Long Live the World Revolution! Replies to Responses to 'What's It All About, Comrade?'
- Monsieur Dupont – Nihilist Communism
- Le Garcon Dupont – A Seasonal Message from the Other Dupont
- Monsieur Dupont – Democracy
- Monsieur Dupont – Death to Rank and Filism!
- Monsieur Dupont – Some Thoughts Relating to the Recent Events in Prague
- Monsieur Dupont – Against the "Iraqi" Resistance
- Monsieur Dupont – Who's the Baddy Now?
- Monsieur Dupont – Your Face Is So Mysteriously Kind
- Frére Dupont – Winding Down of The Clockwork Lips
- Frére Dupont – Species-Being and Other Stories
- Le Garcon Dupont – Cul de Sac
- Frére Dupont – Intimacy
Commentary on Monsieur Dupont:
Reviews of Monsieur Dupont:
Communization Currents
This includes various interpretations of and elaborations upon "communization" by several communization groups and theorists.
Dominique Blanc's Communization:
Troploin's Communization:
- Troploin – Communization
- Troploin – What's It All About? Questions and Answers
- Dauvé – An A to Z of Communization
- Dauvé – A Contribution to the Critique of Political Autonomy
- Dauvé – Letter on Animal Liberation
- Troploin – What Next?
Endnotes' Communization:
- Endnotes – Issue #1
- Endnotes – Issue #2
- Endnotes – Issue #3
- Endnotes – Issue #4
- Endnotes – On Communisation and Its Theorists
- Endnotes – LA Theses
Sic's Communization:
Bruno Astarian's Communization:
- Astarian – Communization as a Way out of the Crisis
- Astarian – Crisis Activity and Communization
- Astarian – Value and Its Abolition
Théorie Communiste's Communization:
- Théorie Communiste – Who Are We?
Théorie Communiste – Self-Organisation Is the First Act of the Revolution; It Then Becomes an Obstacle Which the Revolution Has to Overcome
- Théorie Communiste – Intervention and the Communizing Current
- Théorie Communiste – The Suspended Step of Communization: Communization vs Socialization
- Théorie Communiste – The Restructuring, As It Is in Itself
Tiqqun's Communization (Noticeably shittier than the other communization currents):
- The Invisible Committee – The Coming Insurrection
- Éclats – Call
- Tiqqun – Bloom Theory
- Tiqqun – Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Critique of Tiqqun's Communization:
More Communization Authors:
- Cunningham – Invisible Politics: An Introduction to Contemporary Communization
- Noys – Communization and Its Discontents
- Internationalist Perspective – Communization Theory and the Abolition of the Value-Form
- kosmoprolet – 28 Theses on Class Society
- Cherry Angioma – Communization Theory and the Question of Fascism
Contemporary Ultra-Left Positions
This includes defenses of positions that contemporary ultra-leftists tend to take. This section is primarily negative, talking about what ultra-leftists are against, though the articles also often contain what alternatives the proletariat has instead.
- La Guerre Sociale – The Question of the State
- Rubel – Marx, Theoretician of Anarchism
- Adam – Karl Marx & the State
- Wright – Contra State and Revolution
Anti-"Transitional Society":
- Against Sleep and Nightmare – Notes on Democracy
- Malatesta – Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators
- Wildcat (UK) – Against Democracy
- Le Brise-Glace – The Implosion Point of Democratist Ideology
- GCI-ICG – Communism Against Democracy
- York – Towards a Critique of the Democratic Form
- Gegenstandpunkt – Democratic Life
- Eden Sauvage – Theses Towards a Critique of Democracy
- Dickens – Electoralism or Class Struggle?
- Jay – Electoral Politics is not a Gateway Drug
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – Every Vote is a Yes for Capitalism
- Rectenwald – Against Political Determinism
- Munis – Unions against Revolution
- Mouvement Communiste – Unions and Political Struggle
- Wildcat (UK) – Outside and Against the Unions
- Internationalist Perspective – Trade Unions: Pillars of Capitalism
- Zilbersheid – The Abolition of Labour in Marx's Teachings
- Regel – Workers against Work
- Kamunist Kranti – A Ballad Against Work
- Krisis – Manifesto against Labor
Anti-"Labor Aristocracy":
- International Communist Current – The 'Labour Aristocracy': a Sociological Theory to Divide the Working Class
- Post – The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
- Post – "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2
- Lamb – J. Sakai's Settlers and Anti-Racist Working Class Politics
Anti-"Left Parties":
- Cooney – The Eternal Sunshine of the Vanguardist Mind: How Socialist Alternative Substitutes Opportunism for Theory
- Dauvé – The Renegade Kautsky and His Disciple Lenin
- Moss – The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group
- Monsieur Dupont – The Impotence of Councilism
- OJTR – Militancy: The Highest Stage of Alienation
- Jay – The Sociology of Leninist Organizations
- Jay – Sects and Sectarianism
- Jay – A Blueprint for a Party of an Old Type
Anti-"Left-Wing of Capital":
- Knabb – Critique of the New Left Movement
- Brinton – Capitalism and Socialism
- Brinton – The Malaise on the Left
- Gegenstandpunkt – Can One Still Be Left-Wing Today?
- Subversion – The Revolutionary Alternative to Left-Wing Politics
Anti-"Left Unity":
- Dickens – "The Real Enemy?" Why We Should Reject Left Unity as a Concept
- Nappalos – Unity for What and with Whom? A Polemic against Left Unity
Anti-"Basic Income":
Anti-"National Liberation":
- Solidarity – Third Worldism or Socialism
- Perlman – The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
- International Communist Current – Balance Sheet of 70 Years of "National Liberation" Struggles
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – The National Question Today and the Poisonous Legacy of the Counter-Revolution
- Gruppen – Why Anti-National?
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – Against All Nationalisms
- Wetzel – Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – Class Struggle or "Anti-Imperialism"
- Macnair – 'Anti-Imperialist United Front': No Inherent Connection with the Working Class
- Il Lato Cattivo – A Letter on Anti-Zionism
Anti-"Identity Politics":
- Kaczynski – Ship of Fools
- Reed – From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
- Gayge Operaista – A Critique of Anti-Assimilation
- Croatoan – Who Is Oakland?
- Pink and Black Attack – Identity, Politics, and Anti-Politics
- Workers of the World Unite! – Some Notes on Class Unity and Identity Politics
- Goldner – Multi-Culturalism or World Culture? On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
- Mitchell – I am a Woman and a Human: a Marxist Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory
- Choonara and Prasad – What's Wrong with Privilege Theory?
- Chibber – Capitalism, Class and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-Sac of Post-Colonial Theory
- Chibber – Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
- Chibber – Clinton Manipulates Language of 'Intersectionality' to Win
- Federici – Caliban and the Witch
- Dauvé – Federici vs. Marx
- Mies – Patriarchy and Accumulation on a Global Scale
- Karamazov – The Poverty of Feminism
- Théorie Communiste – Gender Distinction, Programmatism, and Communization
- Théorie Communiste – "Gender-Class-Dynamic" & "Comrades, But Women"
- Dauvé – On the Woman Question
- Dauvé – Moral Disorder & Sexual Identity
- Valentine – Gender Rift in Communization
- Gonzalez – The Gendered Circuit: Reading The Arcane of Reproduction
- Griffiths and Gleeson – Kinderkommunismus: A Feminist Analysis of the 21st Century Family and a Communist Proposal for Its Abolition
- Gegen Kapital und Nation – Hatred of Homosexuality: Theses Toward a Critique of Bourgeois Sexuality
- Mieli – Towards a Gay Communism
Anti-"White Supremacy":
- Wright – Marxism and White Skin Privilege
- Roediger – The Wages of Whiteness
- Ignatiev – How the Irish Became White
- Fields – Racecraft
- Reed – The Limits of Anti-Racism
- Reed – Marx, Race, and Neo-Liberalism
- Reed – Black Particularity Reconsidered
- Reed – Django Unchained
- Angry Workers World – AngryWorkers on Sojourner Truth Organization: Some Thoughts
- Théorie Communiste – Class/Segmentation/Racialization. Notes
- Motesharrei – Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies
- Smith – Green Capitalism: The God that Failed
- Smith – Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans
- Situationist International – On the Poverty of Student Life
- Prometeo – Seize Power or Seize the Campus?
Critique of Other "Communist" Tendencies
This is a collection of articles and books refuting movements and tendencies that claim to be "communist". History is the best refutation of various Stalinist currents, so this section will largely consist of the theoretical refutations of tendencies that have no real history, such as Trotskyism. Last is an article that serves as a self-critique of anarchism, which does have a real history and does have legitimate communist elements inside it.
- International Communist Current – What Distinguishes Revolutionaries from Trotskyism?
- Internationalist Communist Tendency – Trotsky and the Internationalist Communist Left
- Mattick – Bolshevism and Stalinism
Self-Critique of Anarchism:
Critique of Philosophy
This part is a collection of articles and books critiquing philosophy as a whole, specific philosophies, and various wrongheaded interpretations of Marx with regards to philosophical matters.
- Smith – Marx's Critique of Hegel
- Smith – Marx and the History of Philosophy
- Smith – Some Communist Observations on Philosophy
- Smith – Marx and Materialism
Anti-"Worldview Marxism":
Anti-"False Consciousness":
- Smith – Karl Marx and Religion
- Smith – "Capital" and Religion
- Dauvé – The Continuing Appeal of Religion
- Gegen Kapital und Nation – Hard to Believe! A Critique of Religion
Anti-"Dialectical Materialism":
Anti-"Historical Materialism":
Anti-"Economic Determinism":
- Dunayevskaya – 50 Years After the Revolution – Mao, Hegel, and Dialectics in China
- Dunayevskaya – Mao Perverts Lenin
- Sprouts – Communism is the Ascension of Humanity as the Subject of History: A Critique of Althusser and the Affirmation of Marx
- Clarke – Althusserian Marxism
Critique of Political Economy
This part contains elaborations upon and analysis of Marx's Capital, critiques of various areas of political economy, and attacks upon wrongheaded interpretations of Marx's critique of political economy.
Marx's Capital:
- Arthur – The Myth of "Simple Commodity Production"
- Kliman – On the Relevance of Marx's Capital for Today
- Perlman – Commodity Fetishism
- Rubin – Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
- Pilling – Marx's Capital, Philosophy and Political Economy
- Rosdolsky – The Making of Marx's 'Capital'
- Mattick – Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
- Dussel – The Four Drafts of Capital
- Arthur – Dialectics of Labor
- Kamunist Kranti – Reflections on Marx's Critique of Political Economy
- Engels' Edition of the Third Volume of Capital and Marx's Original Manuscript
- Smith – Friedrich Engels and Marx's Critique of Political Economy
- Smith – Hegel, Economics, and Marx's Capital
- Wright – Misunderstanding Marx from the Beginning: Notes on the Three Peculiarities of the Equivalent Form in Vol. 1 of Capital
- Bidet – Exploring Marx's Capital
- Arthur – The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
- Bellofiore – In Marx's Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse
- Kliman – Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
- Kliman – The Unmaking of Marx's Capital: Heinrich's Attempt to Eliminate Marx's Crisis Theory
- Jehu – Spinning Marx in His Grave: How David Harvey Got Rid of Labor Power in His Unfaithful Companion
- Castiglioni – Marx without Reservations: Six Theses for Interpreting Capital in Light of Hegel's Logic
- Moseley – Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic
- Wei – An Interview with Michael Heinrich: the Interpretation of Capital (Part I)
- Wei – An Interview with Michael Heinrich: the Interpretation of Capital (Part II)
- Heinrich – Ambivalences of Marx's Critique of Political Economy as Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism
- Heinrich – "Capital" After MEGA: Discontinuities, Interruptions, and New Beginnings
Class Analysis:
- Class War Federation – What We Believe
- Subversion – Review of Unfinished Business… the Politics of Class War
- Subversion – What's the Working Class Anyway?
- Anonymous – Class Analysis for Anti-Capitalist Struggle
- Kolinko – Discussion Paper on Class Composition
State Theory:
- Pashukanis – The General Theory of Law and Marxism
- Heinrich – Marx's State Theory After "Grundrisse" and "Capital"
- Clarke – The State Debate
- Eldred – Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State
- Viewpoint Magazine – Issue 4: The State
Social Reproduction:
Marxist Ideas of Change:
Social Democracy and Neoliberalism:
- Aufheben – Social Democracy: No Future?
- Aufheben – The Retreat of Social Democracy … Re-Imposition of Work in Britain and the 'Social Europe'
- GSE – The Sanders Campaign
- Zerowork Collective – Introduction to Zerowork I
- Kliman – The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession
- Théorie Communiste – Where Are We in the Crisis?
- Dauvé – Crisis of Civilization
Anti-"Economist Marx":
- Bukharin – Economic Theory of the Leisure Class
- Linder – Anti-Samuelson Volume 1
- Linder – Anti-Samuelson Volume 2
This part is a history of bourgeois societies, as well as of currents of proletarian resistance running through them.
- Gilens and Page – Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
- Domhoff – The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America
- Domhoff – Who Rules America? Power, Politics and Social Change
- Brecher – Strike!
- Adamic – Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America
- Stone – Origins of the Job Structure in the Steel Industry
- History Committee of the General Strike Committee – The Seattle General Strike of 1919
- Weir – The Oakland General Strike
- Piven – The Unemployed Workers' Movement
- Piven – The Industrial Workers' Movement
- Romano – The American Worker Part 1
- Stone – The American Worker Part 2
- Matthew Rinaldi – The Olive Drab Rebels: Military Organizing During the Vietnam Era
- Watson – Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor
- Herman – In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: The Strike at Lordstown
- Sprouse – Selections from Sabotage in the American Workplace
- Aufheben – The Rebellion in Los Angeles: The Context of a Proletarian Uprising
- Goldner – The Remaking of the American Working Class: The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
- Dauvé – Grey September
- Kaspar – We Demand Nothing
- Neel – New Ghettos Burning
- Anti-State STL – Ferguson. Over One Week In.
- R.L. – Inextinguishable Fire: Ferguson and Beyond
- Aufheben – What Was the USSR?
- Chattopadhyay – The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience
- Goldner – The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back
- Camatte – Community and Communism in Russia
- International Communist Current – Russia 1905
- Fitzpatrick – The Russian Revolution
- Jones – The Experience of the Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution
- Mett – The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921
- International Communist Current – The Lessons of Kronstadt
- Brinton – The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control
- Thurston – Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia
United Kingdom:
- Lamb – Mutinies
- Aufheben – Auto Struggles: The Developing War Against the Road Monster
- Aufheben – Kill or Chill: An Analysis of the Opposition to the Criminal Justice Bill
- Aufheben – Dole Autonomy Versus the Re-Imposition of Work: Analysis of the Current Tendency to Workfare in the UK
- Communists in Situ – Brexit Means… What? Hapless Ideology and Practical Consequences
- International Communist Current – 70 Years Since the German Revolution
- International Communist Current – Germany 1918-19
- Kuhn – All Power to the Councils!
- Haffner – Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919
- Dauvé and Authier – The Communist Left in Germany 1918-1921
- Wildcat (DE) – Migration, Refugees, and Labour
- Baum – From Welcome to Farewell: Germany, the Refugee Crisis, and the Global Surplus Proletariat
- Bilan – Three Texts on the Spanish Imperialist War
- Orwell – Homage to Catalonia
- Rocker – The Tragedy of Spain
- Wetzel – Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
- Seidman – Workers against Work
- CrimethInc – From 15M to Podemos
- Goldner – Notes Towards a Critique of Maoism
- Chino – Bloom and Contend: A Critique of Maoism
- Steele – Some Remarks on Bloom and Contend: A Critique of Maoism
- NPC – Confusing History with Spectacle: A Critique of Bloom and Contend
- Aufheben – Class Conflicts in the Transformation of China
- Sheehan – Chinese Workers: A New History
- Chuang – Dead Generations
- Anonymous – The Hungarian Revolution: 1956
- Anderson – Hungary '56
- Mouvement Communiste – Hungary '56: "The Proletariat Storming Heaven"
- Fryer – Hungarian Tragedy
- Hoyles – General Strike: France 1968
- Mouvement Communiste – May-June 1968: A Situation Lacking in Workers' Autonomy
- Brinton – Paris: May 1968
- Gregoire and Perlman – Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68
- Negation – Lip and the Self-Managed Counter-Revolution, 1973
- CrimethInc – Letter from Paris
- Subversion Press – Neither Law Nor Labour: Texts from the Movement Against the New Labour Law in France
- Lowry – 1962-1973: Worker and Student Struggles in Italy
- Lumley – States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978
- Dowson – The Italian Background
- Anonymous – Organizing at Fiat
- Lotta Continua – Cultural Revolution
- Anonymous – An Interview with Workers at Fiat
- The Autonomous Assembly of Alfa Romeo – Against the State as Boss
- Lotta Continua – Take Over the City
- Ramirez – The Working-Class Struggle Against the Crisis: Self-Reduction of Prices in Italy
South Korea:
- Anarchist Federation – 1994: The Zapatista Uprising
- Aufheben – A Commune in Chiapas? Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion, 1994-2000
- Wildcat (UK) – Unmasking the Zapatistas
Early 2000s Anti-Globalization Movement:
World Poverty/Violence:
- Shah – Poverty Facts and Stats
- Woodward – Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World
- Hickel – Exposing the Great 'Poverty Reduction' Lie
- Gimenez – We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People — and Still Can't End Hunger
- Hammond – Mapped: How the World Became More Violent
Interesting Sites
These are some sites that contain more literature for the curious reader to peruse, information about joining or starting a left communist organization, and various other areas of interest for left communists.
Book/Article Archives:
- marxists.org
- libcom.org
- prole.info
- Subversion Press
- Bureau of Public Secrets
- Ruthless Criticism
- Sinistra
- For Communism
- n+1
- Left Disorder
- red texts
Start a Reading Group:
Communization Currents:
Other Ultra-Left Organizations/Individuals:
- Mouvement Communiste
- Wildcat (DE)
- Ultra
- Unity and Struggle
- Marxist-Humanist Initiative
- International Marxist-Humanist Organization
- News and Letters Committees
- Angry Workers of the World
- Break Their Haughty Power
- Facing Reality
Ultra-Left Blogs:
Ultra-Left Journals and Magazines:
Left Communist Organizations:
- International Communist Party
- International Communist Current
- Internationalist Communist Tendency
- Internationalist Communist Group (ICG-GCI)
- Internationalist Voice
- Communist League of Tampa
- Controversies
- Robin Goodfellow
Marx Myths:
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In all of my classes I typically extoll the benefits of making candy with a good thermometer. A reader writes:
I just recently found your blog and wanted to get some advice. I am an extreme novice when it comes to cooking/baking but I am trying my hand at different things. I have even taken cooking classes and found that I love it! For Christmas, I wanted to make different candies, fudge, caramel sauce as gifts. I was wondering if you could recommend a candy thermometer that will work the best? I am on a budget but willing to spend a little extra. Also, is there anything else I might need to get started? Please let me know and I love your blog!
Back in the day, before the advent of commercial home thermometers, a "water test" method was used to inform cooks about their candy. This requires the cook to pop a small amount of the hot candy into a bowl of cold water and then feel the candy with their fingers to predict it's "done-ness". However, even for advanced candymakers the method was inaccurate as a taffy can quickly become a hardcandy. Candymakers stepping away from cooking batches to test if their candy was complete would often burn batches. But now that we have access to thermometers, which ones are the best? I like the classic metal stem thermometers that have an insulated plastic handle, grip top so you can remove it safely and quickly. They are about $10 and I find them easiest to use. The kind to look for should have a clip on the back to secure it to your pan and the numbers should be legible before you do any cooking with it. There is a difference often between these basic thermometers. If comparing a few, do get the "heaviest" stainless steel kind as I have found those tend to hold up longer than the lightweight models. Also, get one that has RED color in the glass bulb as they are the easiest to read, especially if you have hot, dark carmel dripping from your thermometer. The temp on the thermometer should range from 100-400°F for candy as most of your cooking is happening between 250-350°degrees.
An accurate thermometer should read 212°F in vigorously boiling water. To test, hold the thermometer in the water and take your reading. If your current thermometer is off, you can mark your thermometer accordingly with permanent marker. Or better, treat yourself to a new one and make sure you test your new one once you get it home. Return it straight away if it does not pass the test. I do not recommend probes and/or thermometers with temperature sensors for candy making. They are too burdensome and I have not found them to be accurate.
An accurate basic thermometer is really important, vital even, when making candy. You will be amazed at what you can make with one. Go forth and cook candy.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Candy: The New Essential
While Americans are skeptical about our economic future, they are optimistic about candy. According to a study by Leo Burnett gas, smartphones, cable TV and even CANDY were items Americans deemed "essential" during a recession. Candy has long been called "recession proof". Now, it's in the pudding.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Sundance Channel
Has a series called LOVE LUST: TO EAT about the foods we love to eat. They have a an episode on Chocolate and I discuss chocolate's rich history from its ancient origins to modern times.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
14TH Annual NEW YORK Chocolate Show
|Beth and Susan Whiteside from NCA snuggle with
an open cacao pod backstage at the show
After my demonstration yesterday, I was interviewed by a Mexican journalist. She writes:
El New York Chocolate Show contará con la presencia de los escritores Maricel Presilla –The new taste of chocolate-, Beth Kimmerle –Chocolate, the sweet history-, Johnny Iuzzini –Desert fourplay: sweet quartets from a four-star pastry chef- y Paul A. Young –Adventures with chocolate: 80 sensational recipes-, entre otros, quienes firmarán ejemplares de sus libros y charlar con sus seguidores.
How fun to be included with Chef Maricel PhD as I was just recalling a wonderful cacao-filled evening at her restaurant with my hosts Eric Case and Curtis Vreeland. Also, not too long ago Johnny Iuzzini and I talked at length about our shared interest in candy science.
The annual chocolate show runs through Sunday. See you there!
|Beth begs audience to use heavy cream and a candy thermometer
for her caramel recipe
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Dezember 7, 2014 Gesamtanzahl der Aufrufe: 6436 Heute: 2
Willkommen im Hotel Highland Greens Townhome 36 by Colorado Rocky Mountain Resorts Breckenridge, Featuring a patio with barbecue facilities, this villa is located in Breckenridge. Guests can enjoy a seating area with a fireplace. Breckenridge Ski Resort is 10 minutes' drive from the villa. Free WiFi, a cable TV with a DVD player and a fully equipped kitchen are offered at Highland Greens Townhome 36 Breckenridge. A washing machine and tumble dryer and an en suite bathroom are also included. Free parking is provided at Breckenridge Highland Greens Townhome 36. BreckConnect Gondola is 6.2 km from the villa. Dillon Reservoir is 15 minutes' drive from Highland Greens Townhome 36.


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1. (15%) Consider the graph in Figure 1. Find a minimum-cost spanning tree by Prim's algorithm and by Kruskal's algorithm.
Ans: Trivial.
2. (10%) In Figure 2 use Dikstra's algorithm to find the shortest paths from node a to other vertices.
Ans: Trivial.
3. (5%) The external path length of a rooted tree is the sum over all leaves of the lengths of the from the root to each leaf. What is the external path length of a full binary tree with n levels?
Ans: Level n has leaves, each leaves has path length n – 1, so the external path length is .
4. (10%) Given tight big-oh and big-omega upper and lower bounds on the function T(n) defined by:
- T(n)=4T(n/2)+ for n=2, 4, 8...
Your bounds need apply only when n is power of 2, i.e., you may assume that for all m, T(m)=T(), where is the smallest power of 2 greater than or equal to m. Show your reasoning.
Ans: Master Theorem,
5. (10%) Let be sets of integers in the range 1 to n, where the sum of the cardinalities of the is n. Describe an O(n) time algorithm to sort all of the .
Ans: Counting sort
6. An n by n Toeplitz matrix A is a matrix with the property that
- A[i,j]=A[i-1,j-1], 2≤i,j≤n.
- (a) (10%) Find a representation for a Toeplitz matrix so that two n by n Toeplitz matrices can be added in O(n) operations.
- (b) (15%) Find a divide-and-conquer algorithm for multiplying an n by n Toeplitz matrix by a column n-vector. What is the time complexity of your algorithm? Note: to get credit for this question your algoritm must run in time O(), where k<2. Hint: Represent the matrix as , column vector as and let
- T1=a*(x+y)
- T2=(b-1)*y
- T3=(c-a)*x
Ans: (a) Toeplitz matrix is defined by first column and row, we can add two Toeplitz matrix's first column and row in O(n) time. (b) no answer
7. (15%) Given that the Partition Problem (PP, defined below) is NP-complete, you are to sketch a proof that the Restricted Partition Problem (RPP, defined below) is also NP-Complete.
Given: Finite set A={} with non-negative integer weights. The weight of is denoted as w().
Partition: Is there a subset A'⊆A for which ? i.e., Can A be partitioned into two disjount sets whose weights are the same?
Restricted Partition: Is there a subset A'⊆A containing k/2 members (i.e., half the elements of A) such that ?
Ans: No answer.
8. (10%) We have a directed graph G=(V,E) represented using adjacency lists. The edge costs are integers in the range {0, 1, 2, ..., 10}. Assume that G has no self-loops or multiple edges. Show that the single-source shortest path problem on G can be solved in linear time i.e., O(|V|+|E|).
Ans: BFS, for any edge, we create weight – 1 dummy node, just like transform weighted graph to unweighted graph, then you BFS, we can find the shortest path.


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Kings of Leon: A History
Amanda Seyfried in Chloe
If Chloe is to be remembered at all, it will be not simply because her role as an escort requires her to lose her clothes and make out with Julianne Moore. (Let's not be crude here.) It's because after playing a lovesick girl in schlock like Mamma Mia! and Dear John, she seems for the first time fully comfortable in her skin.
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Privado, ambiente relaxante com a doca para barco, natação e pesca. Visualizações espetacular !!!! Caiaque, barco ou pegue o traslado de barco até Mt Kineo para jogar golfe, encalhar e uma grande caminhada. Subir ao topo da torre de fogo com 350 exibições grau. Branco água jangada Kennebec Rio e do locador saber saídas leste e oeste, juntamente com grande pesca com mosca. Faça um passeio através das madeiras do Norte em estradas registrando a fazendas históricas Pittston, onde pode desfrutar de canoagem, pesca, caça e caminhadas.
Esta área tem caminhada espetacular, movimentações cênicas, cachoeiras, represas, natação, passeios de barco a ilhas isoladas e praias, pesca, caça e outras atividades. Dirija para o dia para o Canadá francês e desfrutar do encanto.
A casa do lago e casa de campo destacada foi totalmente equipados para tornar a sua estadia muito confortável e estamos cão amigável. Por favor, ligue 207-751-6013 para obter mais informações ou para reservar.
We has a wonderful time. The house was perfect, clean, and had great views of the lake from the windows. The place was private and we watched the Kineo shuttle make trips across the lake and back many times a day. We saw the Katahdin steamship from the outside deck. Saw moose and foxes in the area, and there were resident ducks that came up on deck. Our 2 corgis loved it there. They had to walk out on the dock everyday to check out the water. The owner was very helpful, kind, and answered many questions. In one word "Spectacular!"
The Rockwood lake house was delightful. We had a wonderful 2 week stay and would love to return in future years. Some suggestions would be to be more specific about directions once entering Spring St. and to place a number on the house, so it could be more easily located. None of the houses have numbers, so since we arrived at night, we felt completely lost. Two other suggestions would be to provide shades for the upstairs bedroom and an outdoor thermometer available either on the porch or outside the kitchen window. Otherwise we loved our stay, and we loved Moosehead Lake and Rockwood. Such a lovely location for a peaceful 2 weeks!
We has a wonderful time. The house was perfect, clean, and had great views of the lake from the windows. The Camp and Dock Kept us Busy We thank you for sharing your Camp with my Family and Hope to Book again next year, We kayaked and Hiked and visited every aspect that Moosehead lake had to offer. Brought me back to when my family camped on Moosehead Two weeks every year growing up.
The positives were significant: world-class view, well-equipped kitchen, comfortable beds, immediate access to this magnificent lake, great hiking options in the area. However, I would be remiss to not mention some issues. The property is pretty 'tired': stained rugs, worn furniture, outside is in clear need of paint, inside is cluttered - leaving it feeling like we were living in someone else's home (we were assured by the gent who does the care-taking that the cottage is solely a rental). A couple other strange things happened that colored the experience: the place was dirty upon arrival (with garbage piled at the entry to the home), unfinished laundry filled the washer and drier, the back door was open, etc. These issues appear to have been an anomaly and Holly was immediately responsive, very apologetic, explaining there was a miscommunication with the person who cleans. Holly made an adjustment to the rental cost as a result. A much-appreciated response. We were, however, unable to get a response for several days to one more issue: the lock to the place became broken during our stay, so we then had to enter via a window (one time) and, for the rest of our stay, left the place unlocked while we were on trips. Sooo....thus the mixed review.
We had a great time! The house, grounds, bunkhouse, dock were all great. We loved the dock and the beautiful view of Mt. Kineo! The owner was very responsive when we called about an issue. Very relaxing just sitting and reading on the deck. We canoed, kayaked, hiked up Mt. Kineo, hiked Moxie Falls, and visited Pittston Farm. Saw lots of moose, a bear, beavers, eagles, deer, hawks, and hummingbirds. Lovely place to stay!
Our family stayed at this beautiful property for 8 days and it was perfect. It is close to the boat launch and has a wonderful dock for for the boat, a good mooring, and a good swimming for our grandkids. The camp was perfect: well equipped kitchen, deck, large living room, and a bunk house for a quiet nap. The washer and dryer were so convenient for drying beach towels. We were close to Kineo and enjoyed the hike to the top on a beautiful day as well as many boat rides up Moose River. The living room was large enough for an evening movie night with the whole family and there was plenty of room for our families vehicles and our boat trailer. The log cabin Rockwood church is within walking distance and is a must see. The owner was a pleasure to deal with.
Aproveite para relaxar, privacidade frente ao lago, no deck com vista para as falésias rochosas de Kineo e vista distante do topo do Monte Katadin. Nadar fora da doca ou linha costeira. Boat / shuttle ou caiaque até Kineo para desfrutar de caminhadas a torre de fogo com 350 veiws grau, encalhar e golfe. Drive para as florestas do norte da histórica Pittson Farms. Experiência de barco ou de carro a vários campos de Maine para boa comida; Mayners & Vidoeiros em Greenville. Branco água jangada Kennebec Rivers, garfos e Penobscot Rivers. Os melhores expereinces caminhadas ao redor. Desfrute de compras causal e jantar no Greenville e Jackman. Viajar para o Canadá para o dia para desfrutar de comida e charme francês.
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Rental payments are accepted by mailing personal check with rental agreement and through paypal with an 8% charge. Please do NOT go through on line payments.
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Eddie Kendricks on Life and Love
Apologies for shit sound, my thumb was off the mic, but my humanoid meat-based housemate was sleeping, so i had to keep the telly low. Captioning thus enabled.
(for the visually impaired who still can't hear it: "What is like all about? Love. What is love? Life.")
About Ruadhán McElroy
Ruadhán has been a traditional Hellenic polytheist for about a decade, and has also maintained devotions to Eros and Apollon most of that time; his status as a devotee of Nyx is more recent. He also paints, makes music, makes jewellery, and writes novels set in the Mod Revival (UK) and Swampie (Oz) subcultures of the 1980s. He also gets a lot of odd little experiences that he jokes will forever render him an insufferable Goth.


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Premier Mental Health Hospital & Substance Abuse Center in Lancaster near Charlotte
Why Choose Rebound?
We believe in a holistic approach to healing and recovery where we treat the mind, body, and spirit. Rebound is located on a peaceful, secluded, 50-acre wooded estate with spacious grounds including decorative ponds, fragrant pine trees, and tranquil walking paths. Our staff of caring and compassionate professionals is dedicated to providing the ideal setting for our patients to begin their healing process and build a foundation for a lasting and healthy recovery.
Adult Inpatient Care
Inpatient programming is our most intensive level of care recommended for the most acute cases of emotional, behavioral, and substance abuse disorders. Rebound Behavioral Health features a 22-bed inpatient treatment program for men and women aged 18 and older. We pride ourselves in providing the highest level of quality care for adults and older adults that come to us battling mental health issues and substance abuse. The approach of our interdisciplinary staff is to promote recovery and provide the stabilization needed for our clients to be able to return home as a happy, valuable member of the community. Our expert team of treatment professionals will be with our clients every step of the way on their path to recovery.
Alcohol & Drug Detox Program
Rebound Behavioral Health is pleased to offer high quality medically-monitored detox services as part of its full continuum of care for adults who are looking to overcome chemical dependency concerns. During our streamlined admissions process, our staff will assess the need for detox and include this service in a person's customized treatment plan so as to jumpstart the recovery journey. We employ compassionate and expertly trained medical personnel to supervise detox so that each man and woman who comes to Rebound will experience the most favorable treatment outcomes possible. In our detox program, we strive to help those we treat become healthier in body and mind so that they are able to participate in therapeutic programming with a clear focus on healing.
Adult Partial Hospitalization Program
Our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) is an ideal level of care for adults ages 18 and above who can benefit from intensive step-down support following the completion of inpatient treatment for substance abuse and/or a co-occurring mental health disorder, or whose needs are not severe enough to warrant enrollment in our inpatient program. Partial hospitalization is considered the "bridge" between inpatient and outpatient care.
For adults who have completed inpatient care with us, a seamless transition to PHP ensures continuity of care, limits risk of immediate relapse, and encourages continued growth and development.
Among the many benefits of participating in PHP at Rebound Behavioral Health is that our campus now features a new residence for adults who are receiving services at the PHP level. This lodging option is perfect for individuals who may not be able to secure dependable transportation, or who would be forced to travel great distances in order to participate in PHP, as well as for those who simply desire to live on site while receiving care.


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Dolce & GabbanaBlack Grain Leather Double Padlock Shoulder Flap Bag
Dolce & Gabbana shoulder bag constructed of supple grain leather. Gold toned hardware. Top adjustable flat strap with buckle closure. Back zip compartment. Top flap with front double padlock turnlock closure. Three open interior compartments, one with zip pocket and one with mobile and patch pockets. Satin lined interior. Comes with dust bag.
Made in: Italy Color: Black and Gold Fabric Content: Leather. Interior: Satin Textile. Condition: New with tags. A few faint scuffs and scratches scattered along leather due to storage and nature of fabric. Faint marks and surface scratches on hardware due to nature of metal. No other visible signs of wear and tear.
Measurements & Sizing
- Total Height: 9"
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- Depth: 3.5" Approximate
- Strap Length: 21.75"
- Strap Drop: 7.5" Approximate
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Location: Huntingdon Hall
Date: Friday 15th September
Time: 7.30pm
Price: £18
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As the name suggests The Upbeat Beatles are a rockin band with tight musicianship and powerhouse vocals!
Youll be jumping from the word go! There isnt a band to touch them - 8 bars of Twist and Shout and you will know why! No other band performs this song like the Upbeat Beatles!
From the depths of the Cavern to the Apple roof top, through Beatlemania, America, Sergeant Pepper to Abbey Road, their attention to detail will draw you into the world of the Beatles like no other show.
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The future of China is its people
Citizens must stand resolute against state self-interest
Debris on the street after a suicide bombing in Yunnan on May 10 in protest of a land demoltion
May 23, 2012
The forcible acquisition of my land 10 years ago remains a bitter memory. My protest at the time was so weak in front of a team of armed security officers and a few government officials. I was detained for several hours. A decade on from that dark time, I face a similar fate. Some of my neighbors and I were recently notified that a group of illegal structures must be removed because they produce "visual pollution" to drivers on a nearby national highway. My shop is one of those pollutants. It is true that illegal structures pose several risks, but isn't their existence for so many years the result of tacit agreement by the local government to boost the economy for their own merits? Our government has never made long-term development plans. Tackling "visual pollution" is merely another vanity project of the officials to burnish their own images. In fact, there are illegal structures owned by powerful figures remaining in the neighborhood. Only those without backing are to be demolished. Any judicial or political movement that is not people-oriented is indeed rascalism. The officials may not aware that the demolition can destroy a family's life, a person's hope or even a person's future. In China, forcible demolition and land acquisition are twin brothers. They are among the major conflicts between farmers and the vested interest of the authorities, and one of the major factors contributing to social instability. While I was worrying over my looming unemployment, a suicide bomb exploded in Yunnan province during a protest against forced demolition on May 10. This news spread widely through internet forums and social media sites. A mother surnamed Li from Qiaojia county allegedly carried her one-year-old child to the resettlement office. She ignited a bomb to protest against forced demolition of her home. The incident killed four and injured another 16. I dared not imagine the bloody scene. I would not go to that extreme. But I understand how desperate and helpless she must have felt to end her precious life and that of her child in such an act. After the tragedy, the first thing the local government did was to control the media. It was as ridiculous and sad as the excuse of "visual pollution." The news later reported that the injured and the victims' family were emotionally stable. The alleged bomber was a post-80's young man instead of a woman. The asocial suspect perpetrated the bombing as an act of revenge against society, with no reference to the forced demolition. As long as things are under control, demolitions can continue. In fact, bloggers and others online now refer to China using the transliteration Chai-na-er, which beams "demolish there." After the suicide bombing, the local government then set up working groups to investigate the incident further. I am not sure who will be the unlucky scapegoat to hide the incompetence of the government. But in online forums, people blame the resettlement office and the vested interest groups that rob civilians' properties. Chinese people are wiser and more civilized now. Using stupid explanations to refute rumors cannot convince the public. No matter what the truth is, forced demolition and acquisition go on. Resistance to them has evolved from individual protests a dozen years ago to acts of self-immolation and now suicide bombings. It seems that the general public has lost the battle against strong vested interest groups. But as an old Chinese expression explains, "When you join the game, you will pay back sooner or later." History tends to favor the people, as they are the ones who push for change over time. I believe the strength of the future China is not forcible demolition or acquisition, nor forced disappearance, but a growing resoluteness of the people. Yunnan Xianju is the pen name of a Catholic blogger in mainland China Related reports Nuns protest for compensation Official says Wukan protests show rights demands on rise New protest escalates over power plant
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What are hemerythrins?
Hemerythrins are oxygen binding proteins found in certain invertebrates: sipunculid worms (peanut worms), brachiopods (lamp shells) and some annelid worms. One has also been found in an amoeba. They serve the same function as hemoglobin and myoglobin in vertebrates, but do not contain a heme prosthetic group; instead they contain non-heme iron. Each hemerythin subunit contains two iron atoms bound to a characteristic set of ligands - five histidines, one aspartate and one glutamate.
What are bacteriohemerythrins?
Recently, proteins with similar sequence to hemerythrins have been found in some bacteria. Two of these, from Methylococcus capsulatus and Desulfovibrio vulgaris, have been expressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and shown to possess iron atoms and to bind oxygen in the same way as animal hemerythrins. Searches of genomic sequence databases have shown that hemerythrin-like proteins (for which we propose the name 'bacteriohemerythrins') are present in many genera of bacteria. Some are simple single-domain hemerythrins like those of animals; in other cases the hemerythrin domain is fused to another domain, most commonly a signal transduction domain such as a methyl-accepting chemotaxis receptor (MCP), a GGDEF domain, or a histidine kinase domain. In these cases the hemerythrin presumably functions as an oxygen-sensing domain.
Why are we interested in hemerythrins?
Mainly because we are interested in magnetotactic bacteria, and our sequence searches show that magnetotactic bacteria contain far more different bacteriohemerythrins than any other type of bacteria for which genome data are available. Most species with bacteriohemerythrins have only one or two; a few have five or six, a couple as many as ten. The two species of Magnetospirillum which have been sequenced appear to contain around thirty different bacteriohemerythrin genes each, and Magnetococcus at least seventeen. Surely they must be playing some important role in the magnetotactic lifestyle. Some of them, such as those with MCP domains, are probably involved in finding the zone with the low oxygen concentration required for good growth and magnetosome formation; others may be involved in oxygen storage or magnetite synthesis.