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Pankaj Mishra on Mao and the Maoists

Pankaj Mishra on Mao and the Maoists

The Party Goes On

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The Party Goes On

‘In a clear case of fetishistic disavowal, everyone knows that Mao made errors and caused immense suffering, yet his image remains magically untainted’

‘In a clear case of fetishistic disavowal, everyone knows that Mao made errors and caused immense suffering, yet his image remains magically untainted’

An old, old, old, old story

“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”

‘The wrestler flails around like a half-wit, lunging at the empty space, grappling the air, groping about there where once there was an enemy.’

“The agents introduced themselves to Zinn and advised him that they had a confidential matter to discuss with him…”

“The agents introduced themselves to Zinn and advised him that they had a confidential matter to discuss with him…”

Ubiquity, invisibility, ineffability and omnipotence – the CPC shares many characteristics with the divine

What should happen to the former Stasi headquarters?

Chris Hedges: ‘Language is our first step toward salvation’

‘There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig’

Arundhati Roy: Smiles of the Comrades

Arundhati Roy: Smiles of the Comrades

‘At first I didn’t know what it meant to be a sworn virgin, I realized it only by degrees after I was already going around in men’s clothes, and after everybody in the village already knew that I’d never become a woman…’

Žižek’s hope for new Kravchenkos, with happier ends

1989, choices of peace and the creative suicide of the East