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May Day Denial: Unpleasant Thoughts on The Left

2 (1) May 2025. Happy May Day comrades. I wish I could say this should be a jubilant and rejuvenant post, but saying so is a lie, and to comrades on this special day, nay less. I have to be honest with you, comrades. The troubling news from Theory Underground has reached me, and it is upsetting, or hurtful in a personal sense, for one 'inter-connected' reason. During the existence (the real, weekly existence) of the Left Margin Reading Club, there was an unquerried assumpt

Musings on The Stalin Problem for Gladsnost and Politstroika

18 January 2025 I anticipate that the Merry Stalintime Address— that I am still celebrating the event itself —may upset comrades. Having perhaps expected a more radical turn in Gladsnost and Politstroika, these comrades may think I have betrayed or deceived them. Fear not, comrades! As they say in the East, 'Sovetsky Soyuz not dismembered one year, Tovarishch Gorbachev take half-decade'. If Gladsnost and Politstroika were truly empty Party Congress resolutions, why then shou

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