Anatolii Lunacharskii: Socialism, religion, and enlightenment
“Lunacharskii writes in Kievskaia Mysl about ‘scientific mysticism.’ Get hold of it and give him a public fatherly trouncing.″ — Lenin to Kamenev, 1912 Continue reading
“Lunacharskii writes in Kievskaia Mysl about ‘scientific mysticism.’ Get hold of it and give him a public fatherly trouncing.″ — Lenin to Kamenev, 1912 Continue reading
Since he first emerged on the architectural scene in the twenties, the name of Ivan Leonidov has acquired legendary status. Continue reading
International Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity in the fight of working women under the banner of socialism. Continue reading
Table of Contents I. Introduction: Soviet Urbanism and the Fate of the International Avant-Garde II. A Structural Overview of the Proceeding Work: The Sociohistoric Phenomenon of the International Avant-Garde and Soviet Urbanism as Its Decisive Moment III. The Dialectic of … Continue reading
The installation of socialist construction, of a new society with different industrial and everyday relations, a society which is gathering momentum amidst our conditions — that is our trump card, the value of which is infinitely large. Continue reading
Both eschatologies, it will be seen, predict a coming catastrophe. The religio-philosophical saw the utter destruction of the old world and perhaps some sort of spiritual rebirth rising from the ashes. The Marxist materialists saw the collapse of the capitalist mode of production, but not some sort of reversion to a prior mode of production, but rather the overcoming of capitalism in building a more perfect society. Continue reading
Larry Wolff’s Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment and Richard Wortman’s Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II can be seen as approaching the same problem from two different angles. Continue reading
A brief memorial and a collection of Cohen’s writings. Continue reading
After the fall of the Paris Commune in 1871, Bakunin described the proletariat as “the modern Satan, the great rebel — vanquished, but not pacified.” Continue reading
“Law and right are inherited like an eternal disease” — Goethe [Es erben sich, Gesetz und Recht wie eine ewige Krankheit fort] Continue reading