War and Peace: The First Book

Blah. I probably will end up finishing this book but I’m not sure I really want to anymore. Unfortunately, I have this feeling when I read a lot of the “classics.” They all write with what my middle...

Found: Tolstoy's short version of 'War and Peace'

At 1,500 pages, it is truly an epic. But the original was 600 pages shorter, with a surprising ending. Now it is to be published, sparking controversy

Libertarian Communism Redux

"A couple of comments on my posting of Kropotkin's 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica definition of Anarchism and Libertarian Communism decried my use of such outdated material. Why it was almost 100 hundred years old. Blow the dust off that. So here is a more recent comment on...

Libertarian Communism A Definition

"Since I continue to get comments from those who attempt to enlighten me as to why you cannot be a Libertarian and a Communist the latest being here. I thought I would let an expert on the subject explain it. For those who are so blighted by half baked Republican...

Black Flag Protest Against Bush

The Black Flag is the symbol of Anarchism. In India when George Bush arrives to set flowers on Ghandi's grave this Thursday he will be met with mass protests, appropriately deemed the Black Flag Protest.Of course the Black Flag has a different meaning in Islam.....

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