Wilhelm Reich’s classic essay: Listen, Little Man! (1945)

The author forcefully points out that the price of quiescence is tyranny, war, and a distorted and deprived sexual life, and he exhorts the average man and woman to assume a personal responsibility for themselves and their children. Supplemented in this edition by William Steig’s humurous drawings, Listen Little Man! bears witness to Reich’s unceasing and passionate search for a… Read More Wilhelm Reich’s classic essay: Listen, Little Man! (1945)

12th February 2023 Dilip

Your Wildest Dreams

One of the most beautiful songs by one of my favourite bands from the late 1960’s. Dilip Song by The Moody Blues Once upon a timeOnce when you were mineI remember skiesReflected in your eyes I wonder where you areI wonder if you think about meOnce upon a timeIn your wildest dreams Once the world… Read More Your Wildest Dreams

11th February 202311th February 2023 Dilip

Frontier Weekly’s 55th year

Vol 55, No.32, Feb 5 -11, 2023 https://www.frontierweekly.com/index.html Contents Business as Usual Comment: Dalit Vote Matters Note: A World without Nukes – Patricia Hynes Of Agriculture and Reforms – I Satya Sundaram ‘Everyone Drinks, Only the Poor Die’ – Parth M N K P Sasi: A Campaigner against Religious Nationalism – Satya Sagar Back From… Read More Frontier Weekly’s 55th year

11th February 2023 Dilip

Living for Pleasure by Emily Austin: an Epicurean guide to happiness

A timely guide to the Greek philosopher – and rival to the Stoics – who saw freedom from anxiety as the ultimate goal Julian Baggini Epicurus’s distinctive feature is his insistence that pleasure is the source of all happiness and is the only truly good thing. Hence the modern use of “epicurean” to mean gourmand.… Read More Living for Pleasure by Emily Austin: an Epicurean guide to happiness

10th February 202310th February 2023 Dilip

An Ethnography of Nazi Law: The Intellectual Foundations of Ernst Fraenkel’s Theory of Dictatorship

‘The Dual State is one of the most erudite books on dictatorship ever written’ Opening paragraphs of Jens Meierhenrich’s 2017 introduction to The Dual State (1941) Though largely forgotten today, Ernst Fraenkel’s The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Democracy, first published in 1941, is one of the seminal works in the study of law… Read More An Ethnography of Nazi Law: The Intellectual Foundations of Ernst Fraenkel’s Theory of Dictatorship

9th February 20239th February 2023 Dilip

Narendra Modi is struggling to be both anti-Muslim strongman and global leader

The Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputation. (NB: The problem is that the ‘parivar’ boasts about the same thing at home which its proponents wish to deny on the international stage. DS) Mukul Kesavan The clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response… Read More Narendra Modi is struggling to be both anti-Muslim strongman and global leader

9th February 20239th February 2023 Dilip

On Post-Fascism: How citizenship is becoming an exclusive privilege by G. M. Tamás

First posted January 13, 2013 Cutting the civic and human community in two: this is fascism…. Citizenship is today the very exceptional privilege of the inhabitants of flourishing capitalist nation-states. The field had been chosen by post-fascism, and liberals are mistakenly trying to fight it on its own favorite terrain: ethnicity… We are faced with… Read More On Post-Fascism: How citizenship is becoming an exclusive privilege by G. M. Tamás

7th February 20237th February 2023 Dilip

Gáspár Tamás; prophet of post-fascism

The late Marxist intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás captured Europe’s disorientation after the Cold War. By Anton Jäger In the late 1920s the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth took a series of trips through the Soviet Union. The timing was duly symbolic. Ten years earlier the Bolsheviks had overthrown the Tsarist regime and won the subsequent civil war.… Read More Gáspár Tamás; prophet of post-fascism

6th February 20236th February 2023 Dilip

I must start completely alone

Gonzalo Pozo on Isaac Deutscher’s wartime years in London London Reviw of Books – Vol. 45 No. 3 · 2 February 2023 Isaac Deutscher , later the biographer of Trotsky and Stalin, was in the Warsaw flat of his closest friend, the political journalist Bernard Singer, early in October 1938 when the Wehrmacht’s entry into the Sudetenland was… Read More I must start completely alone

5th February 20235th February 2023 Dilip

‘Only love can save those who are infected with anger.’ Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich speaks to Staffan Julén

“A feeling grew on me that people didn’t talk about the things that really matter in human lives“ First posted January 26, 2018 Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work documenting the lives of Soviet and post-Soviet citizens. Her latest project, about love, is the… Read More ‘Only love can save those who are infected with anger.’ Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich speaks to Staffan Julén