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Make sure to update your blogrolls. I'm sure I will continue to play around with format over the next few weeks, but it's mostly where I want it. If you liked the direction I had taken this blog over the past handful of years, you'll feel plenty comfortable with the new digs. I'll probably continue to publish at a sporadic pace, but think I should be able to http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-new-blog-is-ready.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-2968473005640315337Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:29:00 +00002014-02-07T15:29:28.846-06:00miscellaneousA few months ago, I mentioned that I was thinking of the endgame for this particular blog. Now, the time is almost at hand for the new blog to be launched. Basically, after nearly eleven years, this particular blog is a bit of a sprawling mess, and I've been narrowing my focus considerably over the last few years. The new blog will be more focused on my current interests, and will not have the http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-blog-coming-soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4174276967189536189Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:53:00 +00002014-02-04T00:53:13.172-06:00leftismsocialism The keynote speaker for the event was Chokwe Lumumba, the Jackson, Mississippi mayor who in September told Al Jazeera: "Nowadays you've got to call yourself a 'change agent' or something, or else you'll make people scared. But I am a revolutionary." Unlike Charles Barron, Lumumba does wear suits. But his political philosophy grew from the same intellectual root. In fact, the two have known http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/02/charles-barron-sees-radical-movement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-8624073908618895035Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:53:00 +00002014-02-03T13:53:34.587-06:00#Occupy#OccupyWallStreetcommunismleftismneoliberalismresistancesocialism - As far as you visited post-soviet countries, has such an experience made an influence on you views? - I've been particularly struck by the failure of the US, UK, and western Europe to learn from the socialist experiments. It's like there has been a deliberate effort to obliterate the experience of trying to build egalitarian societies. Full fledged capitalism, privatization, and all the thefthttp://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/02/building-future.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-810994810803646974Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:06:00 +00002014-01-28T21:06:01.639-06:00right-wing authoritarianismYou can read the transcript here. Red scares have occurred in our nation's past, and will undoubtedly happen again.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/when-pete-seeger-faced-down-house-un.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-3220325873748239164Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:02:00 +00002014-01-27T12:25:37.108-06:00Ron Paulwingnuts You'll have to click on the picture to make it full-sized. Consider it some apt commentary aimed at those self-styled "leftists" who try to carry water for Ron and Rand Paul as the allegedly only "viable" alternatives to our current sorry political situation. Hold out for the real thing. Sourcehttp://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/ron-paul-deconstructed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-7865355284095807728Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:07:00 +00002014-01-20T20:07:51.741-06:00Martin Luther King Jr.resistance In any social revolution there are times when the tailwinds of triumph and fulfillment favor us, and other times when strong headwinds of disappointment and setbacks beat against us relentlessly. We must not permit adverse winds to overwhelm us as we journey across life’s mighty Atlantic; we must be sustained by our engines of courage in spite of the winds. This refusal to be stopped, this “http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/quotable-mlk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-3604099164492852045Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:10:00 +00002014-01-19T13:10:17.944-06:00blogtopiaA Voice From the Poorhttp://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/say-hello-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4591919405566024468Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:49:00 +00002014-01-12T11:49:04.102-06:00resistanceThere is a truism that those in power need us (even if merely to quietly accept our oppression) more than we need them. The fear that we might collectively realize our power leads to all manner of laws aimed at discouraging us from ever organizing - as Spain's right-wing government has attempted recently. Thankfully, people periodically remind their would-be masters who really has the upper hand,http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/some-people-push-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4116438610773694331Sat, 11 Jan 2014 04:42:00 +00002014-01-10T22:42:17.950-06:00blogtopiaOr is it undead? I'm not really sure. Anyhoo, there are a number of them who continue to post their thoughts, blogging apocalypse or no.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/blogging-is-dead-long-live-blogging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-3325958397818974795Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:43:00 +00002014-01-09T18:43:51.466-06:00obituarypoetryWe have lost one of our literary giants. I suspect many of us will forever associate him with the Beat Era (when he was still known as Leroi Jones), and a few of us will remember his collaborative work with the occasional jazzer, such as Archie Shepp. His work was both confrontational and controversial in all the ways I would grow to admire. His bio. A passage of one of his more recent poems.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-amiri-baraka.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-5350455848372140038Thu, 09 Jan 2014 05:42:00 +00002014-01-08T23:42:40.415-06:00counter-violenceviolenceArthur Silber is back, and has a lot to say about the asymmetrical treatment between those who victimize and those victims who choose to fight back. Whether it's at the interpersonal level, or at the level of empire and its victims, I find it rather striking (after all these years) that the perps and their enablers get indignant when they get even a modicum of payback. Nor is it too terribly http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/dont-like-tone-then-you-can.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-302172194408076813Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:48:00 +00002014-01-06T23:48:24.905-06:00labor Amid the cooled air of a vault at the National Archive I trace my finger across Maggie Thatcher’s handwriting, in the margin of a typewritten note marked Secret. She’s scribbled: “13 RoRo, 1,000 tons a day, 50 lorries a day…” If you think destroying some of Britain’s most cohesive communities was a great achievement, then these jottings are a token of genius. They reveal Mrs Thatcher engaged inhttp://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/paul-mason-miners-strike-1984-ncb-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-1067456504271140523Thu, 02 Jan 2014 03:34:00 +00002014-01-01T21:34:03.001-06:00immigrationstupiditywingnutsAs Lenin's Tomb reminds us, when it comes to right-wing ravings about immigrants, it is literally same shit, different year.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/with-right-wingers-some-things-never.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-3782626936404178748Thu, 02 Jan 2014 02:15:00 +00002014-01-01T20:15:07.685-06:00communismCuba Today also marked the 55th anniversary of the successful Battle of Santa Clara which effectively ended the Batista regime. Castro's forces would take over the capital, Havana, a week later. ¡Hasta la revolución!http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/55th-anniversary-of-cuban-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-2711875142581907588Wed, 01 Jan 2014 06:01:00 +00002014-01-01T00:38:44.067-06:00Don DuritoMarxismresistanceZapatistasWith the 20th anniversary of the Zapatistas' rebellion in Chiapas upon us, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at the origins of one of the major characters to appear in Zapatista lore: Durito, later known as Don Durito de la Lacandona. In his book, A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, Jeff Conant offers a brief synopsis of http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/don-duritos-origins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-6912705054375139085Wed, 01 Jan 2014 06:00:00 +00002014-01-01T01:10:29.989-06:00 http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2014/01/happy-new-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-6222618938565672009Wed, 01 Jan 2014 03:53:00 +00002013-12-31T21:54:29.513-06:00bloggingIn the liberal/progressive blogosphere, there is something of a tradition of bloggers choosing their own "best post" for the year. It's a bit of a kick to read what others thought was their best work. I'm never really sure what gauge to use to determine what my best was for the year. Probably one of my best-read posts was a repost of a portion of William Blum's writing (where he reports some http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/this-years-greatest-hits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4030747947755291061Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:42:00 +00002013-12-29T12:42:10.058-06:00ZapatistasWith the first of the year, and the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista-led rebellion in Chiapas approaching, I thought it would be useful to understand the origins of the EZLN. There are undoubtedly some lessons to be learned with regard to how to adapt revolutionary rhetoric and practice to local conditions, given that the Zapatistas did manage some tangible successes over the last few decades. http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-brief-history-of-ezln.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4593318040229812322Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:12:00 +00002013-12-28T12:12:07.740-06:00MarxismI thought this might come in handy as a brief and easily readable introduction.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-short-primer-on-dialectics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-4346155945125531544Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:41:00 +00002013-12-27T21:41:20.336-06:00communismenvironmentleftismMarxismsocialism Whatever we do on a purely personal level to try and curtail greenhouse gas emissions cannot of course compare to what corporations could do; but it’s inevitable that the process will impinge upon the bottom line of one corporation or another, who can be relied upon to put optimization of profit before societal good; corporate “personhood” before human personhood. This is a barrier faced by any http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/quotable-william-blum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-726348308411534670Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:36:00 +00002013-12-27T14:36:25.430-06:00jazzobituaryWas just checking my newsfeed on Blogger, and read that another great musician has passed away.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/rip-yusef-lateef.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-2585183221229597951Tue, 24 Dec 2013 06:58:00 +00002013-12-24T00:58:09.420-06:00bloggingI think that's the term. In any case, I am certainly in the mood to do so, or at least share the posts of those who do. Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism now has 11,000 followers. I'm in the process of updating links as time permits. I've been adding a few new ones while removing a lot of old links that either don't work or are to blogs that are no longer active. Don't read too much into it - just http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/blegalazing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-5055262320908507051Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:54:00 +00002013-12-21T10:54:35.402-06:00religionSomeone sure thinks so. As for myself, I am generally a secularist for a reason - clerics and governments (and for that matter, corporate entities) have colluded for ages in one form or another to keep the rest of us down. Sometimes, clerics and religious movements will put on a front, pretending to be forces for progress, when the reality is radically different. I suspect it might not be a bad http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/shame-on-seamus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841172843328626792.post-6883351181258446734Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:05:00 +00002013-12-19T01:05:54.324-06:00Brian Enopop cultureSometimes these work to cure my writer's block. Originally, these statements appeared on cards developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. The original printings now sell for far more than I'd ever want to pay. However, there have usually been random Oblique Strategies generators online for about as long as the world wide web has been around.http://dasnotesfromunderground.blogspot.com/2013/12/oblique-strategies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Don Durito)2