by Paul Cudenec Leo Tolstoy, with his dreams of a free Russian peasantry, had realised before his death in 1910 that the communists aimed to launch an assault on traditional rural life. Having analysed Karl Marx's Capital and studied the new "scientific" socialism, he spoke out about what Pierre Thiesset calls the communists' "industrialised, urbanised … Continue reading The false red flag: industrial slavery
by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A great inspiration behind this mood was the back-to-the-land Christian anarchism of the revered Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy, [11] author of … Continue reading The false red flag: lies and repression
by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the "socialist" and "communist" left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and rebels loosely associated with this tradition, from John Ball of the peasants' revolt [1] and the legendary Robin Hood (robbing the rich to feed the … Continue reading The false red flag: pseudo-resistance
by Paul Cudenec One of the big questions facing all of us trapped inside today's increasingly totalitarian global system is 'How did we get here?' How was it ever possible that human beings, once as free as every other wild creature on the planet, were able to be captured by a small minority of their … Continue reading Marxist doublethink and the disabling of resistance
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