Issue #76 What Can We Learn from Vampires and Idiots?

What Can We Learn from Vampires and Idiots?

Ilya Budraitskis

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sheds tears of blood with a little help from photoshop. The photo of Trump was taken at a news conference at the TD Convention Center, in Greenville, S.C.

Issue #76
October 2016










Notes
1

Well, almost nothing. Anglophone Marxism, in particular, has long maintained links to conservatism. Tim Shenk, in his biography of Maurice Dobb, the only Marxist Economics professor at Cambridge, writes of Dobb‘s longstanding personal and professional alliance with his conservative colleagues. Eugene Genovese, the scholar of American slavery, began as a Marxist before converting to traditional conservatism. And even Perry Anderson, in his recent essay on Israel, praises Benny Morris in the following terms: “In his second phase, Morris has given voice to much crude anti-Arab sentiment. But even as his politics have changed, the historical intelligence which once allowed him to break so many patriotic taboos has not deserted him. Now in the service of a cause that once reviled him, a cool ability to call a spade a spade remains.” —Ed. note

2

Karl Marx, The German Ideology, 1845. Available at marxists.org

Translated from the Russian by Giuliano Vivaldi.