Taylor Dorrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Taylor Dorrell
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Politics
Cybernetics with Chinese Characteristics: How big data is eliminating poverty and building socialism
March 12, 2025The USSR may have created an internet prototype and Chile had its rudimentary Cybersyn, but China is combining human outreach and data management to solve major social problems.
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Culture
Ina Wood, the Oklahoma Communist feminist who inspired the folk anthem ‘Union Maid’
March 7, 2025Before Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger became folk legends, an Oklahoma Communist named Ina Wood pushed them to write a union song for women.
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Culture
This director could make you Communist: Trumbo’s ham sandwich ethics and Marxist art
March 4, 2025The legacy of the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has shifted in the past decade. His work and philosophy offer guidance today.
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Books
How literature inspired, then justified Zionism: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘On Zionist Literature’
February 28, 2025
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Culture
Meridel Le Sueur and ‘The Fetish of Being Outside’: A manifesto for writers
June 5, 2024Rescuing a lost but important 1935 article by the proletarian literary figure.
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Politics
Bad investment: Ohio county treasurer sinks public money into Israeli government bonds
April 23, 2024Even from a strictly profit-loss perspective, Israeli government bonds are a losing investment.
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Culture
An American Communist classical playlist: The Composers’ Collective on Spotify
March 15, 2024In the 1930s, left-wing composers rallied together to make music for the working class. Their legacy and music has been largely forgotten.
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Culture
Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany
February 27, 2024Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.
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