L'Internationale

Pierre De Geyter
(image source: wiki)
no copyright infringement intended

In 1927, the Soviet leaders discovered that the real author of the music for The Internationale had not yet died. Pierre was invited to Moscow for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution and was in the stands of the honorary guests. Joseph Stalin awarded him a Soviet Union state pension. After his death in 1932, more than fifty thousand people attended his funeral.

(source: wiki)

(video by Luiz Carlos Fraga)

Debout les damnés de la terre

Debout les forçats de la faim

La raison tonne en son cratère

C'est l'éruption de la fin

Du passé faisons table rase

Foule, esclaves, debout, debout

La monde va changer de base

Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout!

C'est la lutte finale

Groupons nous, et demain

L'Internationale

Sera le genre humain

Il n'est pas de sauveurs suprêmes

Ni Dieu, ni César, ni tribun

Producteurs, sauvons nous nous-mêmes

Décrétons le salut commun

Pour que le voleur rende gorge

Pour tirer l'esprit du cachot

Soufflons nous même notre forge

Battons le fer quand il est chaud

C'est la lutte finale

Groupons nous, et demain

L'Internationale

Sera le genre humain

L'état comprime et la loi triche

L'impôt saigne le malheureux

Nul devoir ne s'impose au riche

Le droit du pauvre est un mot creux

C'est assez, languir en tutelle

L'égalité veut d'autres lois

Pas de droits sans devoirs dit-elle

Égaux, pas de devoirs sans droits!

C'est la lutte finale

Groupons nous, et demain

L'Internationale

Sera le genre humain

Hideux dans leur apothéose

Les rois de la mine et du rail

Ont-ils jamais fait autre chose

Que dévaliser le travail

Dans les coffres-forts de la bande

Ce qu'il a crée s'est fondu

En décrétant qu'on le lui rende

Le peuple ne veut que son dû

C'est la lutte finale

Groupons nous, et demain

L'Internationale

Sera le genre humain

Les rois nous soûlaient de fumées

Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans

Appliquons la grève aux armées

Crosse en l'air et rompons les rangs

S'ils s'obstinent ces cannibales

A faire de nous des héros

Ils sauront bientôt que nos balles

Sont pour nos propres généraux

C'est la lutte finale

Groupons nous, et demain

L'Internationale

Sera le genre humain

Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes

Le grand parti des travailleurs

La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes

L'oisif ira loger ailleurs

Combien, de nos chairs se repaissent

Mais si les corbeaux, les vautours

Un de ces matins disparaissent

Le soleil brillera toujours

(Zoon Politikon)

Is Worth Reading the First Volume of the Capital?

(image source: wiki)
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Read Marshall Solomon's answer to Is "Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of capitalist production" by Karl Marx worth the read? on Quora

download pdf

(A Life in Books)

Rosa Luxemburg: A Century Since Her Assassination

Rosa Luxemburg
(source: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
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Análisis | Rosa Luxemburgo: mujer, marxista, pacifista; por Joaquín Estefanía https://t.co/Fl2WYAfleq via @elpais_cultura

— Pierre Radulescu (@pierreradulescu) January 14, 2019

(Zoon Politikon)

Catalan Universe: Lluís Llach

Lluís Llach i Grande
(font d'imatge: http://www.lluisllach.cat/)
no copyright infringement intended

músic, cantautor, escriptor i polític català,  un dels capdavanters del fenomen de la Nova Cançó (un moviment artístic que, en ple franquisme, impulsà una cançó cantada en català als Països Catalans)

(font d'informació: wikipedia)

L'estaca
(video de Edward Escalon)

L'avi Siset em parlava 

de bon matí al portal 

mentre el sol esperàvem 

i els carros vèiem passar. 

Siset, que no veus l'estaca 

on estem tots lligats? 

Si no podem desfer-nos-en 

mai no podrem caminar! 

Si estirem tots, ella caurà 

i molt de temps no pot durar, 

segur que tomba, tomba, tomba 

ben corcada deu ser ja. 

Si jo l'estiro fort per aquí 

i tu l'estires fort per allà, 

segur que tomba, tomba, tomba, 

i ens podrem alliberar. 

Però, Siset, fa molt temps ja, 

les mans se'm van escorxant, 

i quan la força se me'n va 

ella és més ampla i més gran. 

Ben cert sé que està podrida 

però és que, Siset, pesa tant, 

que a cops la força m'oblida. 

Torna'm a dir el teu cant: 

Si estirem tots, ella caurà... 

Si jo l'estiro fort per aquí... 

L'avi Siset ja no diu res, 

mal vent que se l'emportà, 

ell qui sap cap a quin indret 

i jo a sota el portal. 

I mentre passen els nous vailets 

estiro el coll per cantar 

el darrer cant d'en Siset, 

el darrer que em va ensenyar. 

Si estirem tots, ella caurà... 

Si jo l'estiro fort per aquí..

(http://www.lluisllach.cat/catala/lestac.htm)

The old Siset talked to me

on the porch during dawn

while we waited for the sun

and watched the carts passing by.

Siset, don't you see the stake

to which we are all tied?

If we can not separate us from it,

then we can never walk!

If we all pull, it will fall

and it will not endure for long,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

it should already be well rotten.

If you pull hard here,

and I pull hard there,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

and we can liberate ourselves.

But, Siset, so much time has passed,

the hands are being flayed,

and when my strength goes away,

it will be wider and bigger.

I very well know that it is rotten,

but it is just, Siset, that it weighs so much

so that sometimes my strength leaves me.1

Tell me your song again.

If we all pull, it will fall

and it will not endure for long,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

it should already be well rotten.

If you pull hard here,

and I pull hard there,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

and we can liberate ourselves.

The old Siset now said nothing.

A bad wind came about

- he knows towards where -

and I went under the porch.

And while the new lads passed by,

I stretched my throat to sing

the last song of Siset,

the last that he taught me.

If we all pull, it will fall

and it will not endure for long,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

it should already be well rotten.

If you pull hard here,

and I pull hard there,

it is sure that it falls, falls, falls,

and we can liberate ourselves.

(http://lyricstranslate.com/en/lestaca-stake.html)

(Catalan Universe)

(Una Vida Entre Libros)

Greatness and Illusion

Karl Marx
(image source: The Guardian)
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“If anything is certain,” Karl Marx once declared, “it is that I myself am not a Marxist.” A new biography, authored by Gareth Stedman Jones (Karl Marx, Greatness and Illusion, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016).

A New Biography Focuses on Karl Instead of Marxism https://t.co/lDDf5wchth

— Pierre Radulescu (@pierreradulescu) October 21, 2016

Gareth Stedman Jones is a British academic and historian, Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London.



(A Life in Books)

Fidel Castro

(NY Times Video)

En un discurso de despedida, Fidel Castro impulsa el Partido a realizar su visión

(Zoon Politikon)

Un Rebelde Escondite en la Selva de Colombia

(source: NY Times)
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El campo rebelde es una cápsula del tiempo Comunista. Un guerrillero viejo canta canciones sobre Che Guevara  en su guitarra, mientras que una multitud se inclina para escuchar, armados con rifles y grenades.Salaries no existen aquí, bodas tampoco: los combatientes creen en el amor libre, diciendo que son casaron sólo para la revolución. "Nosotros estamos preparados para la paz, además para la guerra", dijo Samuel, un luchador de 31 años de edad, que, al igual que muchos de los rebeldes, nunca ha puesto un pie en algun de las ciudades de Colombia.

(source: NY Times)

Lea más aquí:

NY Times - In a Rebel Camp in Colombia, Marx and Free Love Reign

(Zoon Politikon)

(Iberic and Iberic-American Cinema)

Slavoj Žižek, What Can't You Say

Slavoj Žižek
(https://fredrikedin.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/om-du-missade-zizek/)
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Slavoj Žižek: In our permissive times, a new form of the unsayable is more and more acquiring a ­central role: it is not only that certain things are prohibited to say – the prohibition itself is prohibited: we are not allowed to say openly what is prohibited. Already in Stalinism, it was not only prohibited to criticize Stalin and the party publicly, it was even more prohibited to announce this prohibition publicly. If someone were to shout back at a critic of Stalin, Are you crazy? Don’t you know that we are not allowed to do this? he would have disappeared into the Gulag even faster than the open critic of Stalin. Unexpectedly, the same holds for the relations of domination in our permissive post-patriarchal societies: a modern boss is tolerant, he behaves like a colleague of ours, sharing dirty jokes, inviting us for a drink, openly displaying his weaknesses, admitting that he is merely human like us. He is deeply offended if we remind him that he is our boss – however, it is this very rejection of explicit authority that guarantees his de facto power. This is why the first gesture of liberation is to force the master to act as one: our only defense is to reject his warm human approach and to insist that he should treat us with cold distance. We live in weird times in which we are compelled to behave as if we are free, so that the unsayable is not our freedom but the very fact of our servitude.

(The New Statesman)

(Zoon Politikon)

Victory in Greece

(source: Las 2 Orillas)
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the moussaka roared - for good this time - I want them all the best

(The Guardian)

(Zoon Politikon)

Jerusalem, 1917, and then 1896

Jerusalem, 1917
fair use

The image above comes from 1917. Jerusalem, the Holy City for three great religions.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cunning

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets

The dew which descends upon Jerusalem is a remedy from every sickness because it is from the gardens of Paradise.

The Psalms, the Gospel, and the Hadith, three sister books. To whom should the Holly City belong? I think the correct question should be, When Will the Fighting Stop?

The film footage below comes from 1896. Cameramen from the studio of Frères Lumière came to Jerusalem to discover the uniqueness of the place. And they found a city where Arabs, Jews and Christians were living and praying together.

Palestine, 1896
Frères Lumière
published onLine by Lobster Films
(video by Bernadotte01)

(Early Movies)

Thomas Piketty, El Capital según Carlos Fuentes

Una militante del PT con una camiseta de Dilma Rousseff en Brasilia
(Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters en El País)
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En 1865, Karl Marx afirmó que fue leyendo a Balzac como más aprendió sobre el capitalismo y el poder del dinero. En 2014 uno tendería a decir lo mismo: basta con actualizar los autores y los países. En La voluntad y la fortuna, un magnífico lienzo publicado en 2008, pocos años antes de su muerte, Carlos Fuentes hace un retrato edificante del capitalismo mexicano y de las violencias sociales y económicas por las que atraviesa su país, a punto de convertirse en la narconaciónque hoy cubre las primeras planas de los periódicos.

Thomas Piketty sobre Carlos Fuentes y su La voluntad y la fortuna en El País:

El capital según Carlos Fuentes

(quizá Engels hizo esa afirmación, no Marx: a veces incluso Piketty puede estar equivocado, nadie es perfecto)


(Thomas Piketty)

(Carlos Fuentes)

Pour la troisième fois, la Bolivie choisit Evo Morales dès le premier tour

Evo Morales
image by Yves Picq
(wikicommons)
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Le Monde: Pour la troisième fois, la Bolivie choisit Evo Morales dès le premier tour

(video by lemondefr)

(Zoon Politikon)

Kochetov

Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov
Все́волод Ани́симович Ко́четов
1912-1973
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vsevolod_Kochetov.jpg)
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• Looking for Kochetov
• The Zhurbins

(Жизнь в Kнигах)

Marcia Bujold recommends a movie: Red Father

Bernard Ades
(1903-1986))
(http://www.orphanjones.com/press.php)
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Red Father, a 56 minute documentary from 2014, written, directed and produced by Tova Beck-Friedman, puts before us the life of Bernard Ades, as seen by her daughter: the story of a Jewish lawyer fighting for civil rights and confronting legal racism in the America of the 1920's, then fighting in the Communist Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, later in life  black listed and surveilled by the US authorities at the beginning of Cold War. The daughter admires his father for the strength of his attitude, nonetheless she questions his political and ideological radicalism.

Red Father will participate in the Krakow Film Festival Trailer Competition. Marcia Bujold recommends the movie and calls us to vote the trailer, by going to http://trailers.krakowfilmfestival.pl/en/menu/trailers/-/trailers/0/red%20father and submitting there our cast. Here is the trailer:

Red Father trailer
(video by Tova Beck-Friedman)

(Marcia Bujold)

Tonight Show: Jimmy Fallon presenting

Jimmy Fallon
(http://parade.condenast.com/63778/viannguyen/jimmy-fallon-5-year-fertility-struggle-was-awful-and-depressing/)
no copyright infringement intended

(video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

(Zoon Politikon)

Monument of Unknown Soldier

Honi soit qui mal y pense
(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152062458459825)
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(Zoon Politikon)

War and Peace in Crimea

Война и мир
(published by Vasile Ernu on Facebook)
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(Zoon Politikon)

Conflict

inflaming parish conflict with imbalanced reporting
(http://sytereitz.com/2012/04/wisconsin-state-journal-inflames-parish-conflict-with-imbalanced-reporting/)
no copyright infringement intended

(video by Союзмультфильм)

(Zoon Politikon)

(Russian and Soviet Cinema)

For Yale Strom: Soviet Footage about Birobidzhan from 1936

1933 Soviet poster related to Birobidzhan
(soviethistory.org)
no copyright infringement intended

I am sure Yale Strom has these materials, but just in case.

1935 Soviet poster related to Birobidzhan
(soviethistory.org)
no copyright infringement intended

And here is a Soviet reel from 1936: trains pass a railroad station in Birobidzhan; station workers at their jobs (Soiuzkinozhurnal no. 60):

Source: Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk, 2000
(video by iskander ulmas)

(Yale Strom)

Roșia Montană: Town on the Brink

Roșia Montană
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosia_Montana.jpg)
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Roșia Montană - Ein Dorf am Abgrund, 2012
a documentary by Fabian Daub
(video by MrFelchen)

(Filmofilia)