EDITOR—In Stalin: History and Critique of A Black Legend (2008), Losurdo stimulated a debate about Joseph Stalin, about whom he claimed is built a kind of black legend intended to discredit the whole of communism. Losurdo clearly saw that the nonstop demonisation of Stalin was simply the utterly cynical propaganda part of the West’s multidirectional war on the Soviet Union, a war that the collective West had been waging on the Bolsheviks from the moment the revolution came to power in 1917.
IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE
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BRUCE LERRO—As famous and respected as he is now, Mead had little influence over the historical development of social psychology because he was a Hegelian and social psychology developed within a Cartesian paradigm. Also, Mead followed Peirce instead of the more individualist James and Dewey as did his fellow sociologists at Chicago.
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JIMMY DORE SHOW—The DIve host Jackson Hinkle recently appeared on British network TalkTV’s “James Whale Unleashed” to discuss the Israeli-Hamas conflict, and the results were both shocking and hilarious. The show’s hosts mostly went back and forth between spreading Israeli government propaganda and bickering with one another, only briefly stopping to express exasperation at Hinkle for failing to agree with their stale talking points.
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BILLY BOB—Dr. Aaron Good, joins the Blowback roundtable for a wide ranging discussion focusing on the myths of American exceptionalism. Aaron summarizes the last 75 years of US imperialism with a focus on the Kennedy family and their rocky relationship with the deep state. Aaron is an expert on the subject matter and he effortlessly articulates the most salient points while providing solid analysis about the West’s inevitable decline and prospects for a peaceful and prosperous future.
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Billy Bob’s Dispatches: Avant-Garde Journal Team
8 minutes readBILLY BOB—Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline welcomes special guests Jeremiah Kim, Serafina Harris, and Jahan Choudhry. These activists, journalists, and artists are contributors to the Avant-Garde journal that launched on November 9th. All contributors are associated with the Saturday Free School. Each guest discussed their work including Jahan’s provocative critique of Gerald Horne, Serafina’s Black Reconstruction painting: “The Black Worker and World Peace”, and Jeremiah’s provocative article on Norman Finkelstein. The roundtable also discussed current events and the necessity of properly contextualizing our current situation in order to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves due to the increasing geopolitical upheavals that lie ahead.