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‘Living Mady Easy: Revolving hat’, a satirical print with a hat supporting a spy glass, an ear trumpet, a cigar, a pair of glasses, and a scent box, 1830, London.

Michael Harrington, dust jacket photo from Twilight of Capitalism (1977).

In 1817, a group of German religious dis­senters immigrated to Ohio. Less than two years later, in order to keep their distinctive religion and its adherents together, they formed a communal society (eine güter gemeinschaft or “community of goods”), where all shared equally. Their bold experiment thrived and continued through three generations; the Zoar Separatists are considered one of the longest-lasting communal groups in US history.

Publicity display 1940

Student sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960

‘When you have Indigenous children in your care and custody, you have all the power over that family,’ says Shelly Johnson. Photo from Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre.

Situating Du Bois in relation to the Depression-era roots of contemporary neoliberal thinking, Douglas shows that into the 1930s Du Bois ratcheted up a race-conscious indictment of capitalism and liberal democracy and posed unsettling questions about how the compulsory pull of market relations breeds unequal outcomes and underwrites the perpetuation of racial animosities.

Sigmund Freud, A A Brill, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi, Carl Gustav Jung and G. Stanley Hall, taken in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1909

Photograph of Ellis in the year he published “Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise”, from Havelock Ellis: A Biographical and Critical Survey (1926) by Isaac Goldberg

Jane Addams (left) and Lilian Wald (right)

Great Depression: Unemployed men hop train [ca 1933]

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city’s municipal colleges and public schools, the New York state legislature’s Rapp-Coudert investigation dragged hundreds of suspects before public and private tribunals to root out a perceived communist conspiracy to hijack the city’s teachers unions, subvert public education, and indoctrinate the nation’s youth.

In April this year, South Africa’s government honored Dr. Ray and Mrs. Dora Phillips, with the country’s highest national honor, The Order of the Baobab. The Philips worked in Johannesburg at the height of racial segregation and Apartheid and influenced a whole generation of black liberation figures, especially women.

This cigar box with hinged lid is adorned with an outlined map of France in copper relief. It was possibly a gift from Freud’s friend Marie Bonaparte, who lived in Paris and was known to give Freud many gifts.

Volume 60, Issue 3, June 2019, Page 287-292
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King (Kabaka) Mwanga from Buganda (1868-1903)