The Liberatory Criticism of Liberation Lit

JUNE 2024 – JANUARY 2026

The Liberal Tale

Becca Rothfeld’s “Listless Liberalism” and Liberal Ideology

January 2026

What Is To Be Done?

Take Power, Hold It, Use It

“sharp as steel with discontent”

The Poetry, Prose, and Politics of Claude McKay

COUPS of sovereign leaders by America

by the CIA, the US military, and its proxies – a partial list since the 1950s

December 2025

Left-Wing Magazines — 1895-1948

The Left-Wing Journals and Fiction of the Socialist Era in America

De Vere as Shakespeare

The Ghost of Edward de Vere Rises for the Truth

Liberation Lit – The Anthology

Contents, Selections, Links

The Third Great Age of Letters

This Epoch of Literature & Its High Tech Birthquake

November 2025

Bugonia Is So Stupid

Let us not talk kindly now, for the hour it grows late

The Fate of Plutocracy

And the Future of Epic Imaginative Writing

October 2025

A House of Dynamite

Going Nuclear with Kathryn Bigelow

Undiplomatic Thoughts about The Diplomat

Cultural Death by Capitalist TV

Epic Stories Are Monuments To Sanity In A Mad World

And Catalysts to Change

The Power of Propaganda in Fiction

Modern Book Bans vs. Nadine Gordimer, Upton Sinclair, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare

A Stoner Dad and Murderous Sheriff Go To War

Eddington Versus One Battle After Another

September 2025

Trump Attacks America

Insane Fantasies More Real Than Reality

One Spectacle After Another

Cultural Death By Capitalist Cinema

The Revolution Will Not Be Romantic

It Will Be Populist — It Already Is

10 Notes on Story & Politics

Fight Fire with Fire — Dr. Stacey Patton Lights It Up

Where to Draw the Line?

Notes in Relation to Story and to John Pistelli’s novels Major Arcana and The Class of 2000

Alecta Speaks — Get Your Money Back!

A Progressive Populist President And A Revolutionary Appeal

August 2025

Literary Times

They Are A-Changin’ — Always

The Basis for Revolution in Culture, Consciousness, and Story

Notes on Literary Lines and Revolutionary Populism

Necessary Lies — Imperial Lies — That No One, Not Even The Empire, Cares If You Believe

4 Notes On The Post-Orwellian Genocide — And Implications For Journalism And Story

July 2025

The Novelists’ International

Up from Culture in the Age of Three Worlds by Michael Denning

The Arevolutionary In Lit

Bad As The Apolitical — Or Worse

8 Notes on Politics, Science, and Lit

Mamdani, Albanese, Weiss, and Chomsky — notes on reform and revolution — and an extended excerpt from forthcoming “Target Revolution,” Chapter 33 of…

June 2025

Living Remote

The Personal and the Political

May 2025

The Lit Bros Rediscover Identity Politics

Racing Back to the Past

Imaginative Writers Must Intervene Directly and Explicitly in the Day

A Call for Revolutionary Art and Culture

In Defense of AOC

The Politics and Art of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & A Manifesto on Art and Consciousness

No Default to The Default World by Naomi Kanakia

A Feminist Press Title

April 2025

The Great American Whitewash

The Great Gatsby and Imperial Culture

The Revolutionary Novels of André Vltchek

Aurora and Point of No Return

March 2025

The Literary Populism of Tamara Pearson

An Interview with Tamara Pearson about Her Novel The Eyes of the Earth

The Eyes of the Earth — a Novel — by Tamara Pearson

Literary Populism in a Momentous Novel

January 2025

“Orwell’s Problem” & AI Meet the Shakespeare Identity Question

Everything Fits & Nothing Fits

The Revolutionary Moment in the Day & Novel

The Fight in Story

The Endless Novel

In A Potentially Terminal Age — The Problem And Promise of Nancy Drew

December 2024

Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die”

Literature In This Endlessly Grim But Determinedly Hopeful Age

The Revolutionary Moment

Pseudo, Progressive, Chaotic

November 2024

Bernie With Nothing To Lose

Bernie Calls for a Progressive Populist Overthrow of the Establishment

Let Them Eat Crumbs

And Be Joyful About It – With a Side of Genocide

September 2024

Con Don, The Con Dems, and The Left

The Lesson of Jesse Jackson and Bernie Sanders

August 2024

Empire of Lies

The Fraudulent Regional National Election

Decolonizing Mind and Story

The Novel Against The Empire Of Lies

July 2024

Breakthroughs, Consciousness, and Revolution

The Power of Fiction

June 2024

The Energy of Story

Brief Notes On Basic Story – A Story Toolkit for Authors & Creators

May 2024

To change the world

with Liberation Lit

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