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About Mike Curtis

Mike started out as an academic mathematician and computer scientist before succumbing to the urge to build things and becoming a software engineer. He is a lifelong socialist and since retirement has tried, in a small way, to shine some light through the fog of misinformation and disinformation that surrounds us. He likes to use poetry for its direct path to emotions, to stimulate the search for truth. He can be found on twitter @thecyberred, Facebook as thecybersocialist, and the occasional essay at www.thecybersocialist.red. He may also be contacted directly at mike[at]thecybersocialist.red.
  • The Paris Commune of 1871, banks and debt

    The rise and fall of the Paris Commune

    Mike Curtis

    In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • A Study of Monthly Review’s Marxist Political Science in the Twenty-First Century: A View from China
    Cheng Enfu Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman in Cuba. BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

    Since 2000, Monthly Review has focused on the current world situation, pursuing the all-round development of Marxist studies. In this way, it has helped create a significant new trend within the U.S. left, especially in Marxist political science.

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  • Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture: Could Agroecology Prevent Further Pandemics?
    Rob Wallace Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture

    The current complex of COVID-induced crises fits hand-in-glove with the system’s “normal” operation. Stability has been the delusional realm of a small sliver of the Global North, awash in post-World War Two imperialism and the repeated reinvention (and re-imposition) of various plantation systems of cheap and racialized labor.

Lost & Found

  • The Truth About the First Thanksgiving
    James W. Loewen James W. Loewen (right) speaking to a standing room only audience at the 2011 National Council for the Social Studies Conference

    Origin myths do not come cheaply. To glorify the Pilgrims is dangerous. The genial omissions and false details our texts use to retail the Pilgrim legend promote Anglocentrism, which only handicaps us when dealing with all those whose culture is not Anglo.

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