PuntopPress3B

AUTHORS FOR A NEW AGE

Feb 112016
 
The Battleship Potemkin: Dialectical materialism or the Marxist interpretation of class conflict.

=By= Gaither Stewart This is an excerpt from Gaither Stewart’s novel, Lily Pad Roll, (Punto Press, 2012), as recorded in the great Russian city of Odessa by the fictional German journalist, Karl Heinz Leonhard. ODESSA light spring breeze from the Sea lifts Antonia’s pink chiffon foulard and lets it first flutter for an instant and […]

Feb 052016
 
Antonio Gramsci - Italian Professional Revolutionary

=By= Gaither Stewart “Telling the truth is always revolutionary.” oday I visited the tomb of Antonio Gramsci in the Poets’ Cemetery in Rome, a final resting place for artists, poets, writers and illustrious foreigners and lovers of Italy. January 22 is the birthday of the Italian professional revolutionary and founder of the Italian Communist Party […]

Jan 312016
 
Murder in the Cathedral: A Study of Power Relations

=By= Gaither Stewart The worldwide influence of the Roman Catholic Church emanates from the Holy See,which is the Church’s central government headed by the Pope and physically located within the territory of the Vatican State inside the city of Rome with a population of 821. The Holy See has diplomatic relations with world nations which […]

Jan 292016
 
OWL IN THE WATER PIT

=By= Gaither Stewart artin was one of those persons to whom unusual things often happened. It was unclear whether he attracted the odd events or if the events attracted him. What is more, Martin implicated others in the things happening to him so that the singular occurrences of his life became a kind of complicity […]

Jan 242016
 
Possibility—Probability of Nuking Russia

=By= Gaither Stewart y pure chance the two events occurred simultaneously: On a summer morning I read a reference to Aristotle’s discussion of possibility and probability in Meyer H. Abrams’ book, The Mirror and the Lamp, (in 1998 labeled by Modern Library one of the one hundred greatest English-language non-fiction books of the twentieth century). […]