Book Reviews: Inventing the Future and Creative Destruction.
Cor, I miss the days when that crate was in the air. I can remember staying at me Nan’s in …
Tag Archives: Marxism
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.
Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …
Democracy on Trial: What is the Correct Marxist Interpretation of Brexit?
A spectre is haunting communism – the spectre of Europe. Lenin would have surely thought the class divide which currently …
Book Review: A Duty to Offend.
I still have a schoolboy tendency to mumble when faced with a pretty girl. The Blackwell’s till girl smiles with …
Tychy@ the Fringe: According To His Need.
Nick (Michael-David Mckernan) is your average everyday bloke, or at least he is up to the moment when he joins …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (4/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism“; (2/5) “The Case for the City-State“; and (3/5) “The Case for …
I’m sorry to break this to you, Alan Bissett, but you are a nationalist.
That isn’t Alan Bissett who is smoking a pipe and ceci n’est pas un nationalist. It’s just the image of …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (3/5).
[Previously on Tychy: (1/5) “The Case for Scottish Nationalism” and (2/5) “The Case for the City-State.”] The Case for the …
Options for Edinburgh: Scottish Nationalism or City Statehood? (1/5).
The Case for Scottish Nationalism. Every revolutionary movement has to come to terms with the nation. Whenever revolutionaries appeal to …
Book Review: Kim Philby, The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy.
Where the Soviet double-agent Kim Philby was a traitor to Britain he was at once a stranger to his oldest …
Book Review: Descent.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …
Book Review: Blossom, What Scotland Needs to Flourish.
“Come on children, hurry up! You’ll need to cycle faster than that if we’re going to make it to the …
Book Review: William Maginn and the British Press.
Is judgement finally nigh for the doctor? Until now nobody has written a complete biography of Doctor William Maginn (1794 …
Book Review: When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy has been given a gift: a new English translation of Begenas Sartov’s 1978 novel When …
