Mikhail BearkuninThe Guillotine (Part Four: Mutatis Mutandis)First as tragedy, then as farce, then as farce, then as farce…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninThe Guillotine (Part Three: The Terror)“Citizens, we have reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, will successively devour all its children, and finally produce…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninThe Guillotine (Part Two: The Citizen)“I picture the law as being the centre of a huge globe; all citizens, without exception, stand equidistant from it… all are equally…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninThe Guillotine (Part One: Origins)For, lo, the great Guillotine, wonderous to behold, now stands here; the Doctor’s Idea has become Oak and Iron; the huge cyclopean axe…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninPeasantry and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Part 4: Longue Durée)“And hereupon, The Earth… was hedged in to In-closures by the teachers and rulers, and the others were made Servants and Slaves” — Gerrard…Dec 21, 20212Dec 21, 20212
Mikhail BearkuninPeasantry and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Part 3: Betrayal)“It is not a matter of coddling the peasant and regarding this as establishing correct relations with him, for coddling will not carry you…Sep 24, 20214Sep 24, 20214
Mikhail BearkuninPeasantry and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Part 2: War and Peace)“The liberated Russian nation will… run for the tavern to drink liquor, smash glasses, and hang the nobility, whose only guilt is to shave…Sep 10, 2021Sep 10, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninPeasantry and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Part 1: Alliance)“For almost two hundred years, [the Russian peasants’] whole life has been one long, dumb, passive opposition to the existing order of…Sep 3, 2021Sep 3, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninThe Myth of Putin’s Rasputin — Aleksandr DuginThis is a rant of mine from a few years ago, that I’ve edited slightly to be more suitable for Medium.Jun 9, 2021Jun 9, 2021
Mikhail BearkuninThe Propaganda Model: In the West and RussiaThis is part of an old essay I wrote, spruiked up slightly for Medium.Jun 9, 20212Jun 9, 20212
