To begin with, therefore, we must decide whether there is a sufficient case for attempting a reconsideration of parts of Marx's sociological analyses in terms of the sociology of culture. Secondly, we must arrive at a conclusion as to the place of these analyses in the body of the general...
To convince our young people they’re socialists, the left has had to define socialism as everything that is done in a group, from schools to roads, as though those hadn’t worked under every single regime since the Romans, or probably the Egyptians, long before Karl Marx’s misbegotten ...
Look, I can never do this as a scientific theory, not because I can’t develop methods to test it (though those would be mostly examining history) or accept or reject my hypothesis, but because the “science” of sociology currently is caca, and I’m not going to give any college my ...
Dan Carlin’s “Supernova in the East” series from his “Hardcore History” podcast has a very good discussion of what the Japanese thought they were doing in the mid-30s with the China war, and then their motivations for attacking the western powers in 1941. The whole series is literally...
And while it’s not as if it doesn’t count, it’s also not precisely all it seems to be. For one, China owns a lot of it, which it bought with play money of their own, and which it can’t really collect on. So the situation with the debt is horrible, but not serious. By...
The materials needed for lace-making require a certain technological level around them (bobbins, very fine thread, pins, something to mark the pattern on, a pillow or other base to work on, lots of time and concentration). https://www.laceguild.org/a-brief-history-of-lace harryvoyager ...
One of my areas of interest, mostly because I saw an early boyfriend (I’m not even sure we were dating, just sort of vaguely sweet on each other. And we were very young) disappeared into a cult, forever, is to read about cults, both the ones that led their followers into horrible...
Posted on March 18, 2024 by Sarah A. Hoyt All over the world, the pseudo-expert elites are embattled and being challenged by increasingly more vocal masses who have had about enough. In a way it’s a very recognizable landscape to students of history, and it will make you go “um…....
So it’s been throughout history. The only remarkable thing about our would be expertocracy is how fast they burned a clout that took them a hundred years to create. We are not sheep. We are not in the mood to be herded. We are not going into their profoundly stupid future. We ...
If you’ve been looking for a clear (and humorous!) guide to the philosophy and practicalities of being a professional artist… this is your book. Also, did I mention the cartoons? FROM JAMES YOUNG:Eagles, Ravens, and Other Birds of Prey: A History of USAF Suppression of Enemy Air Defen...