Mark Rapley“We must put an end…to this papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life”…..said TrotskyWe can say that this was one thing about which he was absolutely sincere. He meant it and he believed in it, most emphatically. Trotsky…5d ago5d ago
Mark RapleyWe are giving weapons to a country that is invading Russia….is this going to end well for anyone?Ukraine must defend itself against the attack from Russia. This much is agreed by most believers in the necessity of international law as…Sep 43Sep 43
Mark RapleyYou may not be interested in Autocrats — but they are interested in you…..Anne Applebaum, the acute observer and chronicler of Autocracy has warned us all in her irrefutable recent book ( Autocracy, Inc .) that…Aug 5Aug 5
Mark Rapley‘Vom Winde verweht’ or Gone with the wind’ as Scarlett said as she pondered upon the fate of Tara….Adolf Hitler was fascinated by the film. Goebbels watched it as he waited nervously for news of the progress of Operation Barbarossa in…Jul 28Jul 28
Mark RapleyWhat heart could be so hard…....as not to be pierced by piteous feeling to see that company’……..so wrote Zurura upon seeing a cluster of slaves upon a Lisbon dock in…Jul 28Jul 28
Mark RapleyIdolatry, rapture, ecstasy…..and it’s a politician and his followers we’re talking about…I remember the way that the Beatles would send girls into tearful self abasement, beating their budding chests and squeezing their cheeks —…Jul 18Jul 18
Mark RapleyThe choreography of state control is a matter of taste and habit…..habits of old….All the world’s a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and all the men and women merely players. If we stretch his metaphor a little to imagine the…Mar 18Mar 18
Mark RapleyThe seven pillars of Alt-Right wisdom…as stated by Steve Bannon, Lord of the Alt-Right..As the prospect of everything Steve Bannon has worked for gets a little closer — another Trump term as president of the USA — we are bound…Mar 6Mar 6