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Karl Polanyi A LIFE ON THE LEFT GARETH DALE
Marxists IN THE FACE OF FRSCISM WRITINGS BY MARXISTS ON FASCISM FROM THE INTER-WAR PERIOD EDITED BY DAVID BEETHAM
Karl Marx seated at his desk among his books, looking peeved. Text reads: Bro, you didn’t read the book, I can tell
The person showing it to me is Vít Jedlicka, Liberland's presicent. He founded the micronation on a disputed bit of territory between Serbia and Croatia with the goal of making a truly libertarian, digital country that runs on the same technology as cryptocurrencies.
Poochie the Rockin Dog. He died on the way back to his home planet
John C. Woods, the American hangman at the Nuremberg Trials, holding up an example of his work.
Bart and Lisa Simpson sitting in the couch looking angry. Bart has his armed crossed and says “WE NEED ANOTHER VIETNAM TO THIN OUT THEIR RANKS A LITTLE”
The sickos meme but the sicko is Marxist medievalist Rodney Hilton
Juan Rico looking at the camera: “I’m from rural America and I say urbanize them all”
Cover of Bermeo's "Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy"
*There was not a hulking boy from a keel-boat who was not introduced to the President, unless, indeed, as was the case with some, they introduced themselves: for instance, I was at his elbow when a greasy fellow accosted him thus:- "General Jackson, I guess?" "The General bowed assent. "Why they told me you was dead." "No! Providence has hitherto preserved my life." "And is your wife alive too?" *The General, apparently much hurt, signified the contrary, upon which the courtier concluded his harangue, by saying, "Aye, I thought it was the one or the t' other of ye."
A cartoon of two eagles, sitting in easy chairs, one reading a newspaper and one drinking a cup of tea. They are chatting: DO YOU THINK THE OWL IS A PREDATOR? OF COURSE NOT. HE'S NEVER BOTHERED ME. EXACTLY. NO IDEA WHAT MR. MOUSE WAS GOING ON ABOUT.
Picture of Karl Polanyi with laser eyes. An inset image of a news headline reads: “Why Both Left and Right Have Rejected Free Markets”
Cover of Alexei Yurchak’s book “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
Batman looking up at the bat signal, which has been replaced by an image of Sigmund Freud
The Bluth’s stair car
THE REFINERS FIRE The making of MORMON COSMOLOGY, 1644-1844 By John L. Brooke
Battle Royale theatrical poster
Ode for the American Dead in Asia BY THOMAS MCGRATH God love you now, if no one else will ever, Corpse in the paddy, or dead on a high hill In the fine and ruinous summer of a war You never wanted. All your false flags were Of bravery and ignorance, like grade school maps: Colors of countries you would never see— Until that weekend in eternity When, laughing, well armed, perfectly ready to kill The world and your brother, the safe commanders sent You into your future. Oh, dead on a hill, Dead in a paddy, leeched and tumbled to A tomb of footnotes. We mourn a changeling: you: Handselled to poverty and drummed to war By distinguished masters whom you never knew.
Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan. This was the shining green canal Where we came two by two Walking at combat-interval. Such trees we never knew. The day was early June, the ground Was soft and bright with dew. Far away the guns did sound, But here the sky was blue. The sky was blue, but there a smoke Hung still above the sea Where the ships together spoke To towns we could not see. Could you have seen us through a glass You would have said a walk Of farmers out to turn the grass, Each with his own hay-fork.
For the Union Dead "Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. The airy tanks are dry. Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass; my hand tingled to burst the bubbles drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish. My hand draws back. I often sigh still for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom of the fish and reptile. One morning last March, I pressed against the new barbed and galvanized fence on the Boston Common. Behind their cage, yellow dinosaur steamshovels were grunting as they cropped up tons of mush and grass to gouge their underworld garage. Parking spaces luxuriate like civic sandpiles in the heart of Boston. A girdle of orange, Puritan-pumpkin colored girders braces the tingling Statehouse, shaking over the excavations, as it faces Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief, propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake.
LATE VICTORIAN HOLOCAUSTS: EL NIÑO FAMINES AND THE MAKING OF THE THIRD WORLD By Mike Davis
WE KILLED YAMAMOTO
A brightly grinning cartoon boy. Text reads “internal screaming”
Martin Prince in a cage suspended above Mrs Krabappel’s classroom. He’s holding a water dish and says “my water dish is empty”
It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?"
Bart Simpson: “what an odd thing to say”
Paul Karason, who took too much colloidal silver for some dumb chud reason and now looks like a blueberry
At least one company, Harey Zahav, displayed a map of properties in Kfar Eldad, Karnei Shomron, and other Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Brochures at the Harey Zahav table offered detailed looks at properties in these settlements.
Oliver Cromwell laser eyes
Wide Awake open eye symbol. Text reads: Are You Wide Awake Yet?
The Denver airport horse, which is already blue, with the pride flag, NATO emblem, and the rose-and-fist of democratic socialism
We Won't Be Cancelled's About page, which says they help people "unjustly cancelled or fired" for asserting, among other things, their parental rights. There's a (probably AI) image of a dad with his daughter on his shoulders. They're pumping their fists with glee. The daughter is wearing an American flag as a cape.
Michael Scott. You know, from The Office.
Cover of “A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment’s Civil War” by Brian Matthew Jordan
Revolutionary-era cartoon depicting a British customs official being tarred and feathered by some very hooligan-coded Americans
World War I doughboy (Mrs. Glick’s brother?) preparing to throw a grenade. Text reads: “This one’s for you, Kaiser Don”
Trump in a white golf shirt looking fat and disconsolate
Bart Simpson standing alone at his bedroom window, pulling the shade down. His eyes are dark and hollow. For our purposes, imagine he’s seen things on Reddit you can’t imagine. He longs for the sweet release of oblivion.
Trump Says Iran's New Leader Is Alive But 'Damaged' President Trump said he believes that Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is alive, The Hill reports. Said Trump: "I think he probably is. I think he's damaged, but I think he's probably alive in some form, O yeah."
Photo of USCT circa 1863, all of the men look ready to loose the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
Far Side cartoon. Two armed cowboys besieged in a wagon circle as flaming arrows fall around them. One cowboy says to the other: “they’re lighting their arrows…can they DO that?”
Al Pacino, eyes closed in delightful reveries. Caption reads “what a picture”
Flanders in a crammed bomb shelter handing Todd a shotgun shell
Justice Kagan getting ready to say it
Blake: Prophet Against Empire by David V. Erdman
David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in the Mr. Show Blow Up The Moon sketch. Text reads: AMERICA CAN, SHOULD, MUST, AND WILL BULLY ELON MUSK INTO SUICIDE