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The Carpet Crawlers: the Meaning of the Lyrics

06/06/2022 By Conor Kostick 3 Comments

Carpet Crawlers meaning. Meaning of Carpet Crawlers lyrics. Carpet Crawlers lyrics meaning.

What is the meaning of The Carpet Crawlers? The Genesis song, whose lyrics were written by Peter Gabriel, has a dense, religious imagery leading to considerable discussion over the years as to what is the meaning of the The Carpet Crawlers lyrics. Here I’ll offer an interpretation that it is, at heart, addressing a terrible […]

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‘Primitive Communism’: Did it Ever Exist?

10/11/2021 By Conor Kostick 5 Comments

The concept of primitive communism does not fit mega-settlements like Çatalhöyük

A review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow and an explanation of why the concept of primitive communism is mistaken. The way in which we imagine the first human societies is intimately connected to our current political beliefs. Conservatives believe in repression, the need for […]

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William Carlos Williams’s poetry was of and for the proletariat

15/02/2021 By Ciarán O'Rourke 3 Comments

William Carlos William's poems were for and about the working class

‘It’s as if no other poet except Williams had really seen America or heard its language’, wrote Robert Lowell in 1962, near the end of the elder bard’s life: ‘His flowers rustle by the superhighways and pick up all our voices.’ Some decades earlier, Mike Gold, the editor of New Masses magazine, predicted that ‘[w]hen […]

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Capitalism and Gaming

08/12/2020 By Eoghan Ó Nia 2 Comments

Capitalism and Gaming Esports Marxism Monetization of Gaming

How Monetisation Destroys Good Games Eoghan Ó Nia interviewed by Conor Kostick Conor: We’re going to talk about capitalism and gaming. And I suppose we’re framing the discussion by saying that we live in a strange world where whenever there’s anything that human beings do that’s fun, somebody thinks, ‘oh, I could make some money […]

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One of the best books about the Haitian Revolution

29/11/2020 By Ciarán O'Rourke 1 Comment

Book About Haitian Revolution: Common Wind Julius Scott

There are many excellent and inspiring books about the Haitian Revolution, one of the richest and most insightful of which is The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott In early […]

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