“You Make it Art First”
A reply to my critics
Authority and Freedom is dedicated to the freestanding value of the arts—a value that is absolute but not isolationist. ...
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Reflections on the Development of a Post-truth Regime
Donald Trump and the politically correct
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; i.e., the class which is the ruling material force in society is at the same time the ruling intellectual force.” Marx and Engels, The German Ideology
We sociologists know that each idea, each creative expression, each truth claim appears ...
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Was it all futile?
Review: John Kelly’s ‘Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain’
Among the many moral panics aroused by Jeremy Corbyn's accession to the Labour leadership has been the return of the spectre of Trotskyism. Lord Hattersley has warned that ‘the old gang is back’, referring explicitly to the Militant grouping of the 1980s; Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has produced ‘evidence’ ...
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One Hundred Years of Communism
A look at Leninism
On November 7, 1917 (October 25, old style), the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government, took over power, and established their totalitarian rule (the first one-party system ever). Lenin called it "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Rule of law and traditional morality were discarded as "bourgeois hypocrisy." Political competition between parties ...
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