Puget Sound Anarchists: Picking Fights: Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/seasol/
originally posted to CrimethInc. In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of…
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Alex Akselrod
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Fair warning: I kind of despise Jacobin, and Balthazar is a shitty writer... but this novel sounds amazing!
"It's something of a truism to say history does not reveal the past but rather the present: the refracted light of dead stars, to use the French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd’s image of the gone revolutions, will disappear in a daylight of mere facts if not recognized as a “concern of the present.” Annie Kaufman’s new translation of Ben Gold’s 1944 #Yiddish language #proletarian #novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker’s Life Story is one of those events, in which a seemingly lost footnote of left-wing #American #history suddenly brushes against the grain of the present."
Fair warning: I kind of despise Jacobin, and Balthazar is a shitty writer... but this novel sounds amazing!
"It's something of a truism to say history does not reveal the past but rather the present: the refracted light of dead stars, to use the French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd’s image of the gone revolutions, will disappear in a daylight of mere facts if not recognized as a “concern of the present.” Annie Kaufman’s new translation of Ben Gold’s 1944 #Yiddish language #proletarian #novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker’s Life Story is one of those events, in which a seemingly lost footnote of left-wing #American #history suddenly brushes against the grain of the present."