Martin Amis on Donald Tromp

As a lover of America (and as an admirer of the planet), I offer this advice: Don’t shrug. Don’t stand by and let President Trump be President Trump.

Russia abandoned socialism right under Lenin and Trotsky!

I would place the abandonment of socialism much earlier, under Lenin and Trotsky, at least if socialism is understood to mean at a minimum control by working people over production. The seeds of Stalinism were present in the early Bolshevik years, partly attributable to the exigencies of the civil war and foreign invasion, partly to Leninist ideology. Under Stalin it became a monstrosity.
- Noam Chomsky

Made-of-Literature Writer

I'm made of literature and nothing else.
-Franz Kafka