Morning Comrades! Going to keep it relatively simply for the beginning of the week so let’s start with the above. I will go into greater detail on Wednesday but for now this upcoming weekend will see the last Riot drop. After 6 years it’s time. I’ve got a few nice surprises lined up but again, more about those later in the week also. If you have suggestions, now is your time.
This weeks playlist definitely took a semi-darker turn and I kind of dropped my no heavy shit rule also- plenty of deep cuts from the 50s onwards, some classics and then I dipped into a electro -goth hole last week that definitely found its home in this playlist. Topped off with some warm fuzzy guitar shit this week is a little all over the place, but in all the right ways.
This weekend marked the anniversary of the October Revolution and the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research just made number of Lenin’s writings available for free, and yes, these need to be read.
On April 22, we celebrate V. I. Lenin’s 150th birth anniversary. Lenin was the chief theorist of the October Revolution of 1917, and one of the most important leaders of the new Soviet Republic and then the USSR. Three left presses – LeftWord Books (India), Expressão Popular (Brazil), and Batalla de Ideas (Argentina) – in collaboration with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research have produced a joint commemorative book called Lenin 150. This volume collects Lenin’s 1913 essay on ‘The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism’, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s epic poem written at Lenin’s death (1924), and a brief essay by Vijay Prashad on the theory and praxis of Lenin.
Download the PDF in English
I’ll leave you with some of the hot shots from this weekend for you to share and wide. Until Wednesday my comrades.
Yours, without compromise,
V.