An abridged list, in no particular order.
- Edmund Wilson
- poststructuralism
- the Situationists
- “extrainstitutional intellectualism”
- bourbon
- “proletarian meta-narrative”
- the Lost Generation
- Cornell
- Sacre Coeur
- Jonathan Lethem
- The Paris Review
- paradigm
- Jacques Derrida
- French…
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“The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting.” — ~ George Orwell
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Contrary to popular expectations, over the past couple months I’ve managed to do more than play FIFA, eat Doritos, and creep on freshmen.
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Police mug shot of Emma Goldman, 1901 (via)
A review of Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
“The most dangerous woman in America,” dead for seven decades, lingers on. Emma Goldman’s legacy has not always seemed so secure. There was little use for her after the Bolsheviks won radical hearts in the 1920s, even less during the heady days of the post-war boom. It took a New Left that saw no tension between personal and social liberation to resurrect Goldman’s image. The appropriation was selective, but the renewed interest came with more serious historical treatments. Goldman was a quick wit, passionate lover, and talented orator. That she would’ve made fine drinking company has never been in question — her politics have been. Yet Vivian Gornick’s new biography, like many of those that came before it, is hung up on Goldman’s mystique, a mystique that a laundry-list of humanizing anecdotes does little to cut through. Goldman is assessed less as a political figure than lauded as an “incarnation” who, as the book’s subtitle says, lived “revolution as a way of life.”
That life began in misery typical of nineteenth century Russia. Trying to tame his daughter, Goldman’s father beat her with a whip. She battled with authority at the school, too, denied a character reference needed to continue her education. One teacher’s report called the twelve-year-old “a terrible child who would grow into a worse woman.” Sent to work in a glove factory, Goldman witnessed capitalist exploitation first hand. Still, it was only after a journey to America, the bleakness of proletarian life in Rochester, and a profoundly personal response to the Haymarket massacre that “Red Emma” was forged.
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“Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.” — ~ Leon Trotsky’s final testament
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“The spirit, the peculiar burden of his existence lay upon him like an accretion, a load, a lump. In any moment of quiet, when sheer fatigue prevented him from struggling, he was apt to feel this a mysterious weight, this growth or collection of nameless things which it was the business of his life to carry about. That must be what a man was for.” — ~ Saul Bellow, “Seize the Day”
