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The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Indiana University Press, 1975
THE VOICE OF REVOLUTION.
+ great epics
+ Good if you dig Russian lit.
+ A Voice That Throttled To Be Heard
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Memoirs
Pablo Neruda
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
An Extraordinary Poet - An Extraordinary Life!
+ He had me from the first sentence
+ my all time favorite memior
+ Absolutely beautiful
+ beautifully written
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Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics)
Karl Marx
Penguin Classics, 1992
Doors of Perception
+ Must read
+ A good solid anti-capitalist who thought he was also a scientist
+ Essential
+ Fascinating, Intelligent, and Obsolete.
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Matewan
Jace Alexander, Tom Carlin
Evergreen Ent, 1997
HIGH NOON FOR JOE HILL
+ The Matewan Massacre is in here somewhere . . .
+ Incredible movie.
+ West Virginia's Roots In All Its Glory
+ Matewan
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht
Arcade Publishing, 2001
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Weekend
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
New Yorker Video, 1998
Godard's Weekend: a treasure "found on a scrap heap."
+ Very nice
+ expect to be both entertained and bored
Influential French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was at his cinematic best during the early '60s (during which time he made Breathless (1960), Band of Outsiders (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), among other great films), a creative period ending with his equally colorful and political film, Weekend ...
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics)
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics, 2001
The only book you need ever own.
It may seem wilful to lead a selection of Oscar Wilde's major critical prose with an essay on left-wing politics, but 'The Soul of Man under Socialism' is more concerned with aesthetics than ethics: Wilde found socialism 'beautiful' because it encouraged freedom and individualism, freeing man to ...
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This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1
Woody Guthrie
Smithsonian Folkways, 1997
best single CD of Woody there is
+ Great stuff
+ The Folk Legend
+ Biting political and social commentary
+ A true legend
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The Conformist
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli
Paramount Home Video, 2002
Be afraid of indifferent people! It is due to their silent indifference that the worst things happen in the world."
+ Tense and psychological drama/thriller
+ Classic!
+ MASTERPIECE COMPLETE AT LAST
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Native Son (Perennial Classics)
Richard A. Wright
Harper Perennial, 1998
Unnerving
+ A Predestined Path of Life
+ Wright is right
+ "Native Son": A Polemic On the Poverty of the Poor
+ A jarring cautionary tale
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Sandinista!
The Clash
Sony, 2000
Don't listen to the album unless you want to pay attention
+ My first love (musically)
+ It can only be what it is
+ Some fillers, but contained herein is the Clash's finest album
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Germinal: 4 (Penguin Classics)
Emile Zola
Penguin Classics, 1954
Readers of the world, unite!
+ Utterly fantastic....
+ Accurate: Captured the Spirit!
+ Germinal is a work of genius by Zola the master of literary naturalism
+ From the Mines to Revolution-A Masterpiece
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Entertainment!
Gang of Four
EMI Gold Imports, 2001
Driving, cynical, innovative post-punk (and catchy, too).
+ The One, The Only
+ Entertaining
+ Best CD Ever
+ England's Screaming...........77-82 was the best
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Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
Elektra / Wea, 1990
must I also share my life
+ Yes, this album is dangerous
+ A good Socialist Folk CD
+ The Difficult Third Album?
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika
Tony Kushner
Theatre Communications Group, 2003
A Wonderful Read
+ What a Kick
+ Too farcical to be serious
+ fantastic
+ Masterpiece
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