In Praise of North Korean Pop Music November 23, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite, Contemporary
We need to be grateful for North Korea. In a world where communism has crumbled like a biscuit in milk, where even Cuba is getting excited about the market, where there are scores of Chinese billionaires, then good old North Korea is there to remind us of just how god awful state run life can […]
Tom Wintringham and Lenin’s Tractor September 8, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Of all the intellectual perversions of modern times perhaps none was as bizarre and perhaps none had more serious consequences than the fawning attitude of some western democrats towards the Soviet Union and its satellites from the 1930s to the 1970s. The paeans of nonsense that there were written about Lenin and Stalin now beggar […]
