Against Empire Chapter 6: Drugs, Lies, and Video Wars

Welcome to The Workers Reading Room, this reading is Michael Parentis Against Empire, Chapter 6: Drugs, Lies, and Video Wars.

All art in the slideshow comes from a Soviet art group on Vkontakte with admin permission. The paintings are in the following order, with the kids smoking in the dining room as number 1:

1.Gugel Adolf Samoylovich (1915-1999) Kudrevich Raisa Vladimirovna (1919-2000) Big surprise 1950s
2.Kustodiev Boris Mikhailovich (1878-1927) Snow-covered Russian city 1919
3.Mikhailov Alexey Sergeevich (1926-1993) White Nights 1966-1967
4.Neyasov Vasily Andreevich (1926-1984) Shcherbak N.F. Coal for the Motherland! The miners of the city of Kopeysk send overplanned coal to new buildings 1952
5.Petrov Petr Varfolomeevich (1950-2012) Recollection 1975
6.Plastov Arkady Alexandrovich (1893-1972) Day of pay 1951
7.Puteiko Vladimir Grigorievich (1925) At the party organizer 1954
8.Sporykhin Boris Tikhonovich (1928-2020) The Village of Razdorskaya. Cossack kuren 1956
9.Vorobieva Irina Nikolaevna (1932-1993) illustration for the book by P. Babansky Who lives in our house 1961
10.Zhankov Georgy Dmitrievich (1921-1991) Mentor 1975

Outro music is Phil Ochs “Ringing of Revolution.”