🎶 Just found out about Dying Wish. My favorite kind of hardcore. #MetalMennonite
H/T to Silent Planet
Finished reading: Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs) by Richard K. Morgan 📚
“The hallucinatory world of anticommunism-without-communism is dangerous and violent. Its partisans believe they face an existential threat, which in principle licenses almost any level of violence”
From: Why is the nationalist right hallucinating a ‘communist enemy’?
Reading histories of the Spanish Civil War for #NorthernFires and the parallels to the reactionary scaremongering movements in the USA keep adding up. Example:
“Despite the moderate basis of the new cabinet, the right reacted as if the bolsheviks had taken over the government.”
Another repeated theme from Battle for Spain: people tend to simplify conflict to just about left/right, but the conflicts were on other axes as well: up/down (authoritarian/libertarian) and centralist/decentralist. #NorthernFires
I’m reading Battle for Spain as part of #NorthernFires and what is old is new, again. I’m not far in and so much of history is repeating itself.
Altered Carbon the novel that inspired the Netflix Series is on sale for 3 bucks today.
This is one of the books referenced in Silent Planet’s Northern Fires, so feel free to grab it if you are following along in that blog series.