Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

I was rather surprised to see this on my X feed yesterday, and can only imagine it is a result of this: Galloway and several of the people he regularly retweets, including two people who identify as Irish journalists, seem … Weiterlesen →

Lenin in Pskov is relaxed. He stands at ease, right hand on his hip, his gaze attentive, with a slight smile on his lips. He looks out over Pskov and likes what he sees. He’s not beckoning – there’s no … Weiterlesen →

Lenin in Tver seems rather stern, even grim-faced. He appears to be striding forward, and is definitely not beckoning. He’s got something in his right hand that he seems to be swinging down. It’s a determined, rather than welcoming stance.

Branko Milanović: Those who attack majorities that vote wrongly seem to speak, when it comes to international organizations, in tongues that come from an entirely different era. They call for international solidarity, inter-country cooperation etc. at the time when the … Weiterlesen →

Lenin House, Kazan. Lenin lived here with his family in 1888 after returning from exile for participating in student anti-government activity.

Wolfgang Streeck: First, an economy is capitalist if its stability – its current reproduction – depends on the successful open-ended accumulation of privately-owned capital for investment in continued open-ended private capital accumulation. Second, a society is capitalist to the extent … Weiterlesen →

I Es dringt kein Laut bis her zu mir von der Nationen wildem Streite, ich stehe ja auf keiner Seite; denn Recht ist weder dort noch hier. Und weil ich nie Horaz vergaß bleib gut ich aller Welt und halte … Weiterlesen →

Display celebrating 80 years of the Soviet nuclear industry. Hiroshima, top, Nagasaki bomb left, 1945 US nuclear attack plan for the USSR bottom center, USSR’s first atomic bomb, 1949, bottom right.