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Dario Fo Jnr. داریو فوی پسر
Oct 14, 202314 min read
A (belated) semi-sympathetic proletarian review of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.
«خیلی خوشبختم که حس طنز دارم. فکر میکنم که حس طنز به نوعی پاسخی است به افراطیگری و تعصب. سخت است یک آدم فاشیست طناز را تجسم کنیم. و حس...
Bandit Shirin شیرین راهزن
Jul 20, 20237 min read
The Future-Forming Power of Slogans
It is said that slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. It is also claimed that slogans do not provide solutions. I disagree on both...
Chappi Chaplin چپی چپلین
Jul 12, 202313 min read
How not to fight God? (Part 3)
[In this final part, I want to deal with a range of important issues around religion, atheism, and the Bolsheviks' strategic failures. I...
Chappi Chaplin چپی چپلین
Jul 3, 202311 min read
How not to fight God? (Part 2)
[In part 1, I dealt with heavy issues such as: belief vs science; what to do with ‘sacred’ texts; and, what to do with Mosque wealth....
Chappi Chaplin چپی چپلین
Apr 21, 202314 min read
How not to fight God? (Part 1)
Ten years ago, I read an excellent book entitled, And God Created Lenin: Marxism vs Religion in Russia, 1917-1929 (Paul Gabel Prometheus...
Dario Fo Jnr. داریو فوی پسر
Mar 5, 202316 min read
Fahrenheit 451-ing the Iranian class war
The January 2023 burning of a Quran in Sweden by those euphemistically referred to as ‘far-right extremists’ has once again focused...
Bandit Shirin شیرین راهزن
Mar 4, 202311 min read
The slow death-agony of a theocratic thanatocracy
Why exactly is the Islamic Republic so vicious, so nasty? Why is the mullah-bourgeoisie so reliant on its killing machine?
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