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north america / mexico / miscellaneous / non-anarchist press Tuesday February 19, 2019 16:42 by James Parisot
In the midst of the U.S. Civil War (1861 – 1865), as somewhere between half a million to three quarters of a million bodies lay dead from bullets and disease, Emanuel Leutze completed a painting titled Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way for the U.S. Capitol. The painting celebrated empire as central to American history. Included in the final draft of the painting was a free black man, subordinate to the leadership of the white men forging the path of empire across the continent; supposedly saved from slavery with their leadership.1 Of course, as W.E.B. Du Bois famously discussed, central to the Civil War was the “general strike of the slaves”; their resistance was key to abolition. Regardless, Leutze’s painting was one representative of the broader trend, going back to the initial creation of an independent American government, in which so-called democracy and freedom were felt through the vision of empire. read full story / add a comment
Διεθνή / Αναρχικό κίνημα / Κριτική / Παρουσίαση Tuesday February 19, 2019 15:41 by Dmitri (ed.) 1 image
Όπως το συνόψισε ο φίλος του Μάρτιν Μπούμπερ: “Ο Λαντάουερ πέθανε τίμια όπως έζησε. Το κράτος και το κόμμα, οι δύο εξουσίες ενάντια στις οποίες ο Λαντάουερ αγωνίστηκε σε όλη του τη ζωή, συνεργάστηκαν για να καταπατήσουν το τελευταίο αβέβαιο τρεμοφέγγισμα της επανάστασης”. read full story / add a comment |
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