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Fiction: Chapter 2.1 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other entries in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner In December of 1919, the Russian economy was grinding to a halt. Conflict with the White Army had destroyed countless...
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Socialist candidate for state rep talks species politics
By Jon Hochschartner Travis Dicken, a member of Socialist Party USA and the Industrial Workers of the World, is running in the 2016 election for state representative in Pennsylvania’s 59th district....
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Fiction: Chapter 2.2 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other entries in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner With that rebuke, Trotsky returned to the position he was in before, seeking a solution to Russia’s economic problems...
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Fiction: Chapter 2.3 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other installments in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner In early March of 1921, Trotsky travelled nearby to Kronstadt, a Russian naval fort in the Gulf of Finland. An...
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Here’s how animalists can contribute to socialist and anarchist publications
By Jon Hochschartner So in the hopes of making the animalist movement less politically isolated, I think it would be really cool if anti-speciesists participated more in conversations among the...
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Fiction: Chapter 3.1 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other installments in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner On an early-April evening in 1922, Trotsky had settled in for the night at his family’s apartment in the Kavalersky...
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Socialist Kshama Sawant discusses animal issues
By Jon Hochschartner Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is an influential figure on the American left. Running on a platform of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, rent control, and taxing...
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Fiction: Chapter 3.2 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other installments in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner The issue of Trotsky’s appointment to vice-premier was raised again at a Politbureau meeting in mid-September of that...
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Fiction: Chapter 4.1 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other installments in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner In early March of 1923, Lev Kamenev, another member of the Politbureau, met with Trotsky in a Moscow restaurant,...
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Fiction: Chapter 4.2 of “Mecha, Tofu, and Revolution”
To read other installments in this series, please click here. By Jon Hochschartner A week after Trotsky submitted his Dzerzhinsky response to the Central Committee, in mid-October of 1923, the same...
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