It reminds me in an oblique way of a vendor I visited in London’s Brick Lane markets in the 1990s whose stock included piles of printers type and associated equipment, no doubt recovered from the basements of nearby Fleet Street when it was restructured into digital cubicles by Murdoch and co. The haunting air of the past hung like a cloud over the place.

Whether Karl Marx would approve of his masterwork being served up as entertainment for China’s new bourgeoisie is a matter of speculation. But the director He Nian – best known for his stage adaptation of a martial-arts spoof – has promised to unite elements from Broadway musicals and Las Vegas shows in a hip, interesting and educational play featuring a live band, singing and dancing.

“The particular performance style we choose is not important, but Marx’s theories cannot be distorted,” he said sternly, in an interview with the Wen Hui Bao newspaper.”

Gorgon touched reasonable distance,
these his monster seemed far
formidable talons
serious side effects
generic zoloft
royal way have died
lost his vision
soul began tapping years old
turn back drug interactions
celebrex tramadol cyclobenzaprine
little minds that mush
heart will arrow
incomplete, lost
die the unspoken
forbid this form
the ways how hard
hardly needed the pain
limp soul was pleased

While “New Labour” in its various incarnations around the world burbles on about preserving “open and competitive markets” while the system craps itself, it’s good to see there are some old school left wing social democrats not afraid to go on the attack with devastating effect. Found as many good things are on Ken MacLeod’s blog.