Lysenkoism
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Ideological Freight
Let’s unload some of that. A 1950 excerpt from Bertolt Brecht: Thus through Kazakhstan, land of the nomads Went the word and call of the academy. Each work brigade challenged the other To raise millet as never before. And in village and field, in school and workshop There was on this great day in spring…
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The Drama of Galileo — and of Losey, Eisler, and Brecht
“I believe in the gentle force of reason; in the long run, no one can resist it. Nobody can watch me drop a pebble and say it doesn’t fall. Nobody can do that. The seduction of truth is too strong.” So says Galileo Galilei in Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo. The staged biography by the…
Painting the Culture Red 