Recent content by Sam R.

What is gulf states servitude? OTL for $200?

The Tories rename themselves as communalists?

But professional wrestling is already Real in that it caters to psychological needs to enact drama and Real-ise terrors and horrors that aren’t just unspoken but are incapable of being voiced in language. That’s a really strong social desire: we put on Medea so nobody has to kill her kids when...

I was really surprised it didn’t cite CLR James or Federici. Especially when it’s claim that proletarian innovation was central to mechanisation. In any case both the liberal Spanish peripheral revolutions and the case studies of the English periphery give me cause to believe that proletarian...

And too fucking tired. Rear troops haven’t seen their blood and the blood of the men they have killed and thus have a guilt that seeks to be expunged. The book ordinary men is the standard reference. On killing and it’s bibliography. For US pacific forces front line troops traded trophies in...

Either situation, but where Spain (including the across the oceans economic periphery) fully explores the themes emergent in the Spanish economy/society of the Spanish revolutionary impulses themselves. If there's a French revolution it can't over-determine themes arising inside the Spanish...

I was thinking HRH, and the Malay and Indian states. Becoming Empress by personal love, not parliament and the company's violence. But as long as Malay and Indian princes will accept Brigertons as sufficiently sexy to form coordinated state unions.

Imagine if Victoria had sufficient children to unite with all Princely states? Isn't this turbo Hapsburg?

I'm predominantly a c20 historian of labour history, and as a result incidentally of world-systems / imperialism. But Imperialism as a world-system chains back before the 20th century, and Sharpe's Rifles' episode one inspired this thought, as the two brother fight over Spain. Spain did have a...

The USSR wasn't seriously contesting colonialism, especially not internally. But the very processes of imperialism produced classes and castes that generated people who would contest colonialism; and, they produced population booms and a bias towards a moment when well organised light infantry...

The difficulty for me is not just an increase in left politics, (coherent IWW organisational reproduction into the 1920s?); but, is to get a situation where a left is impotent enough to not be destroyed, but potent enough to be the largest party of non-government?

Isn’t this just Torydom’s fantasy of itself? So NZ?

I've been thinking about compositional differences in the five modes of composition for electronic music: Sequencer loops: where a master or multiple 8/16+ ('horizontally scrolling') step sequencers trigger instrumentation commands on devices, and often whole tracks are laid out as simultaneous...

Based off Poland Hungary Czechoslovakia and Poland the Soviet Union could have tried invading one of the Koreas.

Wotcher, As we all know, the 1970s and 1980s comprised a revolution in the culture of the Soviet Union. The unstoppable sound of the need for industry began in Kyiv, a home of Soviet Revolution, and was amplified by the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment's smuggling of MDMA into the Soviet...