Recent Posts Tagged With 'communism'

• New Year\'s Movie Theater: "The Truth About Communism"

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 09:07 in spain, socialism, Soviet Union, fascism, communism, stalin, lenin, national socialism, statism, collectivism

  Launched two years ago, on the 90th October Revolution´s Anniversary, this documentary presents the violent rise of the Soviet Empire from the chaos of Revolution to the terror of the Cold War and is charted using remarkable footage of actual events...

• The Remarkable History of "We the Living"

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 14:18 in Ayn Rand, objectivism, literature, communism, cinematography, russian revolution

  Andrew Leigh on Breitbart's Big Hollywood reviews a remarkable DVD, released just in time for the holiday season. The question is, what is not extraordinary about "We the Living"? The story itself, written by Russian born American author and phil...

• Put The Bstds Where They Belong ...

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 12:09 in design, communism

  Threadless Tees design by Tom Burns.Made with "talent, love, and plastisol ink and a chino additive for softness."...

• Flick Review: "Che"

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 09:38 in fidel castro, cuba, communism, che guevara

  PJM: "Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up?", by Henry GomezIn the movie Che, Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro plays an Argentine thrill seeker-cum-murderer who helped turn Cuba into a Stalinist state. That Argentine was Ernesto Guevara de la...

• Opona: the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 06:11 in czech republic, communism, opona

  Prague Daily Monitor: "Do It: Remember and experience communist past"The non-governmental and non-profit organisation Opona (The Curtain) was established last year by a group of various people who came together through the strong urge to commemorate ...

• Pragmatist Olympics in the Terror Hive

  Posted on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 05:57 in china, relativism, pragmatism, ethics, communism, olympic games

  Kathy Shaidle has published a damning article on Front Page Magazine, "Beijing: Munich or Berlin" on the state of affairs in communist China, host to the supposedly edifying event of the modern Olympic Games.While isolating sports from the political ...

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Facing Evil

  Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 17:10 in Soviet Union, communism, totalitarianism, solzhenitsyn

  “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” --Alexander SolzhenitsynActually, it started ...

• Ode to the Collective: Totalitarian Temples

  Posted on Saturday July 12th, 2008 at 04:30 in architecture, communism, totalitarianism, frederic chaubin

  Art Daily: "Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed at Chicago Architecture Foundation" ‘Startling,’ and ‘idiosyncratic’ describe the architecture in the newest exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) 224 S. Michigan Avenu...

• Resist Commie Prop, Support Indy!

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 04:13 in hollywood, communism, ussr, russa, nazism, reiss: the orientalist, rapallo, molotov-ribbentrop pact 1939-1941

  ... with a pro human record like the Russian Communist Party's, who wouldn't feel deeply offended at Hollywood's creative license? Everything else aside (!) thanks to their successful agitprop everyone has forgotten they had been secretly wheeling ...

• Ban Prop, Support Indy!

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 04:16 in hollywood, russia, communism

  Yahoo!News: "Indiana Jones Makes Russian Communists See Red"Russian Communist Party members condemned the new "Indiana Jones" film on Friday as crude, anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens. "...

• The Injustice of Revisionism

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 04:15 in marxism, communism, nazism

  At times it is simply unbelievable where totalitarian criminals and their spin-doctors can get away with! We did some posts recently on deontology: the field of ethics dealing with good-intent-bad-results-never-mind, the Left's permanent get-out-of-j...

• Corporal Hitler's Master of Ceremonies

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 04:41 in communism, nazism, reiss: the orientalist, sir winston s. churchill

  Sir Winston S. Churchill in his Nobel Prize winning "Memoirs of the Second World War" touches briefly on one of the most colourful people of the interbellum. Without context or further identification - we'll fill that in later - he mentions meeting o...

• Philips' Communist Recommendation

  Posted on Saturday December 8th, 2007 at 06:10 in communism, lenin, nazism, christie's, counter-enlightenment movement, anton philips

  Christie's in London has the small, but fine art collection of the late Dr. Anton Philips (1874-1951) on auction.Christie's "About" section on the relevant website yields an eulogy about the entrepreneur, containing a typical example of the double st...

• Of Hive Minds and Group Souls: Marxism and Islamism

  Posted on Wednesday October 17th, 2007 at 09:25 in iran, marxism, communism, ahmadinejad, counter-enlightenment movement, ashura, pseudo religion

  Here's a peek into the deluded world of Muslim conversion. As yet unbeknown to herself (I believe), lately I am given to follow the literary activities of a young female convert - one of 300 in Belgium alone. She has a university grade in higher Marx...