butchersapron
Bring back hanging
There is now. Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
( i do have a epub but not sharing Pm press stuff i'm afraid)
Victor Serge
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There is now. Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
( i do have a epub but not sharing Pm press stuff i'm afraid)
UK subversive
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or perhaps Serge realised that Anarchism couldn't really offer anything in the new circumstances developing in Russia, ie had no chance of success?
I think that Anarchism is the UK now increasingly seems very empty especially as things are now getting bad. ie there are no real solutions to anything, no real political line, program, nothing. just cliches and slogans.
I think that Anarchism is the UK now increasingly seems very empty especially as things are now getting bad. ie there are no real solutions to anything, no real political line, program, nothing. just cliches and slogans.
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Care to expand? Oh, i see, you like Mao and Khomeini. Forget it, you're a muppet.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Serge's notebooks covering 1936-47 were discovered in Mexico in 2011. They were recently published in English. There is an interesting thoughtful overview of them here:
A Hard Case: Victor Serge’s Notebooks: 1936-1947
Teeming with vivid characters, full of richly observed locations, detailed memories and the author’s continual grappling with political events, Notebooks is the equal of Serge’s novels, although structurally, at nearly six hundred pages with another fifty providing brief identifications, it might be considered as two novellas (one set in Paris during the Spanish Civil War and the Moscow Trials, the other on the boat steaming towards America), a novel (Serge in Mexico) and an epilogue (Serge in the cold dawn of the Cold War).
Notebooks’s earliest entries, dating from late 1936 through the summer of 1940, sketch an oblique political thriller that might be the outline for a Patrick Modiano novel—populated by weary double agents and full of unsolvable dead-end mysteries and inexplicable back-alley intrigue under a gray Paris sky. Serge describes a series of clandestine meetings. One is with the then-eminent André Gide, newly returned from and now secretly critical of the Soviet Union. “Try not to be followed,” his contact advises him. Gide favorably impresses Serge, who writes that as they parted that “his voice took on a something of the accent of a lower-class, slack-jawed Montmartre gangster, revealing the man who knows the dirty corners of Paris and the underside of life.”
Others are that underside. As hyper-alert as a hunted animal, Serge is suspicious of Walter Krivitsky, the recently defected head of Soviet intelligence in Western Europe, eventually to be assassinated in Washington D.C.: “when he put his hand in his pocket to take out a cigarette I watched him closely.” Others are pitiful. Serge finds Trotsky’s former translator Maurice Parijanine holed up in a shabby hotel in an outlying district where the wallpaper is “the color of poverty.”
A Hard Case: Victor Serge’s Notebooks: 1936-1947
Teeming with vivid characters, full of richly observed locations, detailed memories and the author’s continual grappling with political events, Notebooks is the equal of Serge’s novels, although structurally, at nearly six hundred pages with another fifty providing brief identifications, it might be considered as two novellas (one set in Paris during the Spanish Civil War and the Moscow Trials, the other on the boat steaming towards America), a novel (Serge in Mexico) and an epilogue (Serge in the cold dawn of the Cold War).
Notebooks’s earliest entries, dating from late 1936 through the summer of 1940, sketch an oblique political thriller that might be the outline for a Patrick Modiano novel—populated by weary double agents and full of unsolvable dead-end mysteries and inexplicable back-alley intrigue under a gray Paris sky. Serge describes a series of clandestine meetings. One is with the then-eminent André Gide, newly returned from and now secretly critical of the Soviet Union. “Try not to be followed,” his contact advises him. Gide favorably impresses Serge, who writes that as they parted that “his voice took on a something of the accent of a lower-class, slack-jawed Montmartre gangster, revealing the man who knows the dirty corners of Paris and the underside of life.”
Others are that underside. As hyper-alert as a hunted animal, Serge is suspicious of Walter Krivitsky, the recently defected head of Soviet intelligence in Western Europe, eventually to be assassinated in Washington D.C.: “when he put his hand in his pocket to take out a cigarette I watched him closely.” Others are pitiful. Serge finds Trotsky’s former translator Maurice Parijanine holed up in a shabby hotel in an outlying district where the wallpaper is “the color of poverty.”
Nigel
For A Degenerates' Workers State
Wasn't there some in book about Bonnot Gang?
Gave away what books I had on Serge a while ago; there was one that I bought at Freedom after Arson attack that had something in it.
BONNOT GANG !
(Not The Book I Had)
Lurdan
old wave
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Since the (15 year old
) post you're quoting, an interesting collection of his anarchist writings has been published by PM
Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
There's currently a $1.99 ebook sale on at PM's website until the end of the month (apply the coupon code 'READ' at checkout).
Alternatively it can be found at libgen for a full five finger discount.
Since the (15 year old
) post you're quoting, an interesting collection of his anarchist writings has been published by PMAnarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938
There's currently a $1.99 ebook sale on at PM's website until the end of the month (apply the coupon code 'READ' at checkout).
Alternatively it can be found at libgen for a full five finger discount.
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