Can I please read this book?
Here in the UK, it is very hard to get a copy of this book for under £25. I have requested on the Amazon.co.uk site that a Kindle edition be published (giving the scarcity of this book) but I fear that it may take some time.
In response to The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Kicking Off is Inspirational and Practical
When the people decide to live,
Destiny will obey,
Darkness will disappear
And chains will be broken.
In response to Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason
'Twitter' a 'creative' communist manifesto, and win some books?
Oh dear, dear. I mean, what? Don't you think you are trivialising, not to mention commercialising, things?
Ah, but you have an argument. To wit: 'In the book, Adorno notes that “we live in the society we criticize.” Furthermore, in the twenty-first century, we also tweet in the society we criticize. Thus to launch the book, we are pleased to announce a brand-new twitter competition challenging you to tweet a #manifesto for a communism for the twenty-first century.' What kind of an inference is that, though? I also take baths within the society I criticise (well, for a certain sense of 'within'); so should we have a communist bathing competition? Perhaps you can spell out what you mean.
In response to Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer
Actuality of communist revolution and of Lenin.
Lukacs wrote this book when he was still Leninist. It is the best book which he has ever written. Also one of the best (few) books on Lenin and Leninism.
In response to Lenin by Georg Lukács
Communism,
Christianity and Capitalism.
Zizek
often speaks of giving to the Devil what belongs to the Devil when it comes to
Capitalism. I hold that even the Devil was surprised with the victory of Capitalism
over 20th centaury Communism.
been terribly surprised to see that Capital was worshiped rather than his fake
Heaven, 20th centaury communism. It is also then not surprising that
for Christians (the emancipated) the final frontier, the final enemy is
surprisingly enough not the Devil but Capital, money. Remember what Jesus said:
You cannot have two masters; otherwise you will hate the one and love the other,
you cannot serve Mammon and God.
But hating money is still a sign
of divided interests, still hating the one and loving the other.
So… there will be no blood for
Capitalism, the fight does not exist for Christians; they are emancipated even
from this! They are already socialists and where they go, goes socialism. Like
Jesus said to the emancipated: Don’t look around to see and find the Kingdom of
God, it is close to you, even in you.
For those who wish to see rioting
revolutionaries as a means to the end of Capitalism, Christianity would be of
little interest because even with regards to the fight against Capitalism,
Christianity is totally subversive; there will be no blood! I mean the man
died! He bled! It is done.
In response to The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Žižek