Workers
I Will Marry When I Want by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii
RevSocialist اش... — Tue, 04/20/2010 - 06:41
This play (117pg) by Kenyan leftist writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was written after the "flag independence" (Nkrumah's term) from Britain. Ngugi often mentions the Mau Mau, which was the violent, revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance group which forced the british to leave Kenya (during which the british committed countless atrocities, including the execution of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi, and the mass imprisonment of "sympathizers" in concentration camps, as well as routine and wide use of torture).
The Soldier of La Ciotat by Bertolt Brecht
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 03/20/2010 - 12:58
This is a beautiful, poetic short story (2pg) by German Marxist Bertolt Brecht about the absurdity of war, and how the producers of all things, the workers and the peasants, are the ones to suffer from it, and the ones expended by the oppressor classes during it. Enjoy comrades:
For the Good of All by Otto Rene Castillo
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 03/20/2010 - 12:34
For the Good of All
By Otto Rene Castillo
Listen,
look,
touch
this voice,
for underneath
a man burns sweetly
for the good of all.
Cliches?
You,
try to be worthy
all day long.
Afterwords
we'll speak alone
if you wish.
I tell you.
At this stage of our time
after twenty centuries
of christian word,
man is worse than ever
more evil than ever
less caring than ever.
Even the word love
has been lost
—love!
This at least in my country
gentle and sonorous as no other.
And in spite of it all,
there are nations where man
Senora Carrar's Rifles by Bertolt Brecht
RevSocialist اش... — Wed, 02/24/2010 - 20:13
This is a beautiful play (30pg – it takes place during the Spanish Revolution), and it is basically a theatrical presentation of the argument between advocates of non-violence, and advocates of real change, and real struggle (i.e. advocates of armed resistance).
The Job by Bertolt Brecht
RevSocialist اش... — Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:10
This short story (3pg) by German Marxist Bertolt Brecht is very interesting for it's critique of gender roles, and also it's stark portrayal of what it means to have to work to live in a time of recession and mass unemployment.
Comrade! by Maxim Gorky
RevSocialist اش... — Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:54
This short story (5pg) by Maxim Gorky explores and articulates what the word "comrade" means to the stuggling and oppressed, and shows the unmistakable, and indestructible, power behind it and the ideas which it stands for. This is really a beautifull story, and articulates very well the meaning of one of my favorite words, and hopefully one of your favorite words as well! Enjoy comrades:
The Measures Taken by Bertolt Brecht
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 02/20/2010 - 06:03
This type of play by German Marxist Bertolt Brecht was meant to be educational, in this case it is a lesson in the right and wrong way to conduct agitation. It is also has a very powerful message of the type of sacrifice needed if you intend to seriously work for a socialist revolution, and a dictatorship of the proletariat and of all the oppressed.
Remembering the History of the Cotton Workers' Struggle by Antonio Gramsci
RevSocialist اش... — Tue, 02/16/2010 - 15:11
This is a very informative and interesting article (4pg) written by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1916 about the struggles of textile workers in and around Turin.
Red "Terrorist" answers White Terrorist
RevSocialist اش... — Tue, 02/02/2010 - 14:43
When I was younger I thought I hated poetry because all the stupid poems I was forced to read in school were shit, things like "the snow glistened white as his conscience" stupid poetical ramblings about things which I (and the majority of people on earth) could care less about. Why do I want to read barely decipherable poems about an "august night" or "winter morning" or such crap? In fact I really like poetry, but didn't realize it until lately when I started reading poems by political and socially conscious such as Mario Benedetti, Darwish, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pablo Neruda, and now Ahuti.
Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 01/08/2010 - 11:16
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian realist playwright. I have been reading many of his plays lately. I had read two of his plays a few years ago and I liked them, but I didn't take any particular notice of him. Yet, in the past few days I have read 11 of his most well known plays, and I must say he is really an outstanding playwright, on the artistic level, and much more importantly on the political and social level.
