Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

Lenin House, Kazan. Lenin lived here with his family in 1888 after returning from exile for participating in student anti-government activity.

Wolfgang Streeck: First, an economy is capitalist if its stability – its current reproduction – depends on the successful open-ended accumulation of privately-owned capital for investment in continued open-ended private capital accumulation. Second, a society is capitalist to the extent … Weiterlesen →

I Es dringt kein Laut bis her zu mir von der Nationen wildem Streite, ich stehe ja auf keiner Seite; denn Recht ist weder dort noch hier. Und weil ich nie Horaz vergaß bleib gut ich aller Welt und halte … Weiterlesen →

Display celebrating 80 years of the Soviet nuclear industry. Hiroshima, top, Nagasaki bomb left, 1945 US nuclear attack plan for the USSR bottom center, USSR’s first atomic bomb, 1949, bottom right.

Many Eastern European nations face an odd predicament. They possess a surplus of history, but a deficit of useful narratives. That is, plenty of things have happened to them, but not enough has been done by them to establish a … Weiterlesen →

I guess one could argue this is technically not the Pacific, but it is close enough for my purposes. Very happy to be here.

Going to have to say, Lenin is much more compelling when lit by floodlight and without the pigeons.