A chilling account of an evil ideology and the man whose nefarious thoughts made it possible.

Marxism and Art is a collection of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Marxism and Art is a book of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Maynard Solomon, through his selections and critical introductions, shows connections between the arts and society, between imagination nd history, and between art and revolution. He selects from thirty-six authors to reveal the range of opinion from dogma to heresy, beginning with excerpts from the works of Marx and Engels that are pertinent to an understanding of Marxist philosophy. The book traverses a wide range of subjects from the origins of art to the nature of creativity, the aesthetic experience, the dialectics of consciousness, the psychology of art, and the evolution of art forms. The sources of art in ritual, in the labor process, in the play drive, and in social conflict are explored.

WARNING: Antifa will always be after you and your family if you are an “American.” Antifa represents organized and continuous intimidation and violence. Rather than social justice protesters with noble causes, Antifa are trained, armed, and organized terrorists for hire. Their victims include whoever is against their credence of total anarchy. Antifa arose from para-military factions and has been likened to a militia. They have aligned with, and take money from, the forces behind the American far Left. Marxist Antifa-progenitors first arose in the Bolshevik Revolution starting in 1917 as paramilitary and found themselves instrumental in finally bringing down the Russian government in 1923. Antifa groups then migrated to a politically embroiled Germany as the Russians began exporting Marxism to China in 1921 to penetrate the Nationalist Party. Mao Zedung joined up soon thereafter and would catch Stalin’s eye and support to become Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the world’s most deadly totalitarian ruler. The Bolshevik goal was to establish communist dictatorships through violence. They wanted to do to Germany and China what they had done to Russia, help overthrow the government through Marxist violent revolution. The largest Antifa organization was officially named in 1932 as an affiliate of the Communist Party of Germany and also had paramilitary roots. Antifa was under the leadership of the committed Stalinist and leader of the Communist Party of Germany, Ernst Thälmann. The terrorist group was so ruthless and violent that they drove many Germans to vote for Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party, the Nazi Party. Of course, the Nazis would become Antifa’s sworn enemy and downfall. Thalmann’s fate was alleged to be shot in a Nazi concentration camp after a long prison term. Antifa members today are also Satanists, like the Dayton Shooter, and/or members of the Democrat Socialists of America, which are some 50,000 strong. The Dayton shooter's vest bears "Against All Gods" and occult patches. The Dayton shooter’s notebook shows the devil's pentagram and "Lucifer" references. Modern Antifa groups in the United States and Europe have been documented to receive funding and support from Leftist radicals such as George Soros’ Open Society groups. Antifa’s behavior has been likened to the intimidating goon squads of Hitler’s Brown Shirts or Mussolini’s Black Shirts. Recently they tried to shut down any free speech or protests by conservatives in the United States and Europe. Another Antifa epicenter, much like Portland, Oregon, is East Germany. Antifa participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement in America. Antifa, if anything, are Communists but who don’t want organized government at all. Communism was invented by rich bankers and industrialists of England, France, and the United States to topple governments and replace them with a totalitarian rule. The Rothschilds banking magnate family funded two Communist authors to create Communism out of concepts of Satanism, Adam Weishaupt of the Illuminati around 1776, and Karl Marx in the mid 19th century. This book not only explores the history of Antifa and its ideology and its main actions but also explores in depth the origin and nature of Marxism as arising from a foundation of Satanism directed against the Christian Church. Evidence that Karl Marx lived as a Satanist bubbles up to stun the reader.

This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the reader sees the world from Engels’s perspective, not knowing how his story will turn out. This approach reveals the multifaceted and ambitious character of young Friedrich’s achievements from age sixteen till just turning twenty-five. At the time that he accepted Marx’s invitation to co-author a short political satire, Engels was far better known and much more accomplished. He had published many more articles on far more subjects, in both German and English, than Marx had managed. Moreover, he had written a critique of political economy from a perspective unique in the German context, and published his own pioneering and substantial study of working class conditions in an industrializing economy. Offering an innovative approach to a largely neglected period of Engels’s life before meeting Marx, Carver upends standard narratives in existing biographical studies of Engels to reveal him as an important figure not just in relation to his more famous collaborator, but a key voice in the liberal-democratic, constitutional and nation-building revolutionism of the 1830s and 1840s.

Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.