Hey all, just joined this community and I'm hoping to share a couple of my poems here. This one I wrote over a decade ago. Here's the text: >Won’t you understand Why I bit my lips When I took your hand And cherished you in small sips. >I’m distracted by the touch of your hair Your scent and I rejoice in quick sighs Here, a moment we could share Here I’ll breathe in deep gorgeous eyes. >You smile beneath our chosen tree Eyes lit up in a glimmering shine. I’ll laugh forever in our awful glee At last freed by burnt bridges and that ignored sign. >But cold memories and abandoned lives build a mass; We’re taught to remember all is made of glass.
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Family abolition has always been something a core component of the communist revolution. Clearly it's changed over the past few centuries. It's funny to see Marxist-Leninists decry talk about family abolition when Marx and Engels repeatedly state that the family would be abolished and replaced with new, expansive, liberatory kinship structures.
I don't know about your figures about how many families are 'good' or 'bad'. But ultimately I agree with the idea that youth liberation is both necessary for building a revolutionary movement and intrinsic to communism (or anti-market anarchism/socialism)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/188338 > Hello fellow readers and friends. I finished formatting the ebook for Paul Mattick Sr's book *Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy*. I have below several links to the various formats on Mediafire and on the Marxists Internet Archive > * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/p2918u9sqm6ce5y/Mattick%252C_Paul_-_Marx_and_Keynes%252C_The_Limits_of_the_Mixed_Economy.epub/file) > * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/qehhfknt5clu5f5/Mattick%252C_Paul_-_Marx_and_Keynes%252C_The_Limits_of_the_Mixed_Economy.mobi/file) > * [MIA ebooks holding all above versions](https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/) > * [Other PDF](https://docdro.id/6qZRyfq) > > For other books on a similar subject also see [bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs](https://bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs) and the [Marxists Internet Archive](https://marxists.org). > > Image Description: > >A book cover featuring a black background. In pink text along the top is "Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy" and along the bottom is "By Paul Mattick" and "Marxists Internet Archive". In the center are two black and white photos of John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx arranged in such a way as to have them facing each other.
Hello fellow readers and friends. I finished formatting the ebook for Paul Mattick Sr's book *Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy*. I have below several links to the various formats on Mediafire and on the Marxists Internet Archive * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/p2918u9sqm6ce5y/Mattick%252C_Paul_-_Marx_and_Keynes%252C_The_Limits_of_the_Mixed_Economy.epub/file) * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/qehhfknt5clu5f5/Mattick%252C_Paul_-_Marx_and_Keynes%252C_The_Limits_of_the_Mixed_Economy.mobi/file) * [MIA ebooks holding all above versions](https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/) * [Other PDF](https://docdro.id/6qZRyfq) For other books on a similar subject also see [bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs](https://bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs) and the [Marxists Internet Archive](https://marxists.org). Image Description: >A book cover featuring a black background. In pink text along the top is "Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy" and along the bottom is "By Paul Mattick" and "Marxists Internet Archive". In the center are two black and white photos of John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx arranged in such a way as to have them facing each other.
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This is now up on Marxists Internet Archive!
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Neat. It's nice to see more peertube instances popping up.
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Helping hand: Israeli forces in the service of Jewish settlers
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Yeah.
Thanks for the extra image description
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Helping hand: Israeli forces in the service of Jewish settlers
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I don't think this is a very good comparison, to be honest. While both are targets of genocide, the modes of genocide are different. Uyghers are facing the islamophobia reminiscent of the early '00s and a cultural attack. Palestinians are enduring a settler colonial genocide and apartheid beyond what the Uyghers are facing. Equating them like you did, not to speak even of comparisons, is, as you said, extremely roughly put.
www.aljazeera.com
Striking passages: >“We never know when the next attack will be, what damage the settlers will cause, and whether they will kill somebody,” said Samir Sawalma, 65... ...the school has a special roof to prevent damage from settler stones, while one family simply abandoned their house, unable to deal with the constant violence. The daily lives of many Palestinian villagers all over the West Bank are at the mercy of settlers – and the Israeli soldiers who support them – as the settlers cut down olive trees, burn agricultural fields, assault Palestinians and, in a growing number of cases, shoot at them – killing some and leaving others hospitalised. While the soldiers are meant to protect both Israelis and Palestinians, over the years, human rights organisations – Israeli and international – have documented numerous cases where troops, in the best-case scenarios, stand by while settlers rampage. The odds of a police complaint filed by a Palestinian resulting in the conviction of an Israeli civilian were a mere 1.9 percent, [said a report by Israeli rights group Yesh Din]. There's also some heart-breaking stories of murdered Palestinians and the families they'd left behind in the rampages back in May.
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I'm curious why people decided to downvote.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/78825 > A treat for the Lenin fans among us. > * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/fdvi7gtawuoawjs/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.epub/file) > * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/8lrjv7vicb401hn/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.mobi/file) > * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/np7gmzx648of5cw/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.pdf/file) > * [PDF of the Volume of the Collected Works with bookmarks](https://docdro.id/oqAZrq7) ([alt](https://srv-store3.gofile.io/download/5387cf38-f887-44d7-ac9c-d317528cc29b/LCW%20Vol.%2007%20-%20V.%20I.%20Lenin.pdf)) > * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm) > > Image Description: > >It is a black portrait-oriented book cover. In the center there is a photograph of Lenin cropped so it shows only his face. He looks intently into the lens. In pink port lligat slab font at the top it reads 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back' and right below that slightly smaller it reads 'The Crisis In Our Party.' At the bottom of the image it reads 'V. I. Lenin.'
A treat for the Lenin fans among us. * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/fdvi7gtawuoawjs/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.epub/file) * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/8lrjv7vicb401hn/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.mobi/file) * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/np7gmzx648of5cw/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_One_Step_Forward%252C_Two_Steps_Back.pdf/file) * [PDF of the Volume of the Collected Works with bookmarks](https://docdro.id/oqAZrq7) ([alt](https://srv-store3.gofile.io/download/5387cf38-f887-44d7-ac9c-d317528cc29b/LCW%20Vol.%2007%20-%20V.%20I.%20Lenin.pdf)) * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm) Image Description: >It is a black portrait-oriented book cover. In the center there is a photograph of Lenin cropped so it shows only his face. He looks intently into the lens. In pink port lligat slab font at the top it reads 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back' and right below that slightly smaller it reads 'The Crisis In Our Party.' At the bottom of the image it reads 'V. I. Lenin.'
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It's an open, comradely reply to Lenin's "Left-Wing Communism."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/78337 > * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/b7rjbjs5tnoiyk8/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.epub/file) > * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/gfx4mixw6qv9lpg/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.mobi/file) > * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/fh4afmlm3t7u760/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.pdf/file) > * [Libcom.org PDF](https://libcom.org/files/Herman%20Gorter-%20Open%20letter%20to%20comrade%20Lenin.pdf) > * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm) > * [LibCom.Org's HTML](https://libcom.org/library/open-letter-to-comrade-lenin-gorter) > * [Other eBooks](https://www.mediafire.com/folder/m3wvt7vseep2y/EPUB+Public+Library) > * This text is also available (albeit without the Wildcat Introduction) in the Left Communist reader [Heavy Pancakes](https://lemmy.ml/post/67715) > > Image Description: > >It is a black portrait-oriented book cover. In pink text it reads 'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin' at the top and 'Herman Gorter' at the bottom. In the center of the image is a black and white photograph of an aged bald man wearing a suit and tie and round glasses. It's a photograph of Herman Gorter.
* [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/b7rjbjs5tnoiyk8/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.epub/file) * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/gfx4mixw6qv9lpg/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.mobi/file) * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/fh4afmlm3t7u760/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Open_Letter_to_Comrade_Lenin.pdf/file) * [Libcom.org PDF](https://libcom.org/files/Herman%20Gorter-%20Open%20letter%20to%20comrade%20Lenin.pdf) * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm) * [LibCom.Org's HTML](https://libcom.org/library/open-letter-to-comrade-lenin-gorter) * [Other eBooks](https://www.mediafire.com/folder/m3wvt7vseep2y/EPUB+Public+Library) * This text is also available (albeit without the Wildcat Introduction) in the Left Communist reader [Heavy Pancakes](https://lemmy.ml/post/67715) Image Description: >It is a black portrait-oriented book cover. In pink text it reads 'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin' at the top and 'Herman Gorter' at the bottom. In the center of the image is a black and white photograph of an aged bald man wearing a suit and tie and round glasses. It's a photograph of Herman Gorter.
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Ostensibly its aim is, because it purports to be aiming to a 'communism'. However, its idea of full communism is utopian to the extent that they believe it will take centuries to reach.
Really, it's just the state ideology of the USSR under Stalin, which wanted to call itself socialist/communist despite being state capitalist. It revises plenty of other stuff in Marxist theory as well, laying the groundwork for class collaborationist Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Dengism, and whatever the fuck neo-Dengism is.
I'd say that Lenin was the first to revise the typical marxist idea of communism though. In State & Rev he describes lower-phase communism as needing some kind of state apparatus to maintain it while communist society still suffered from some bourgeois 'birthmarks'. This was something he'd added to the typical narrative, however. For Marx and Engels (as well as their friends and anarchist frenemies) communism was totally stateless, and the proletarian dictatorship was for them a state in the process of destroying itself as much as it was for destroying class society.
electronicintifada.net
Some highlights: >Palestinian workers unions and political groups called for the protests near the Gaza City neighborhood of al-Zaitoun to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the burning of the al-Aqsa mosque by an Australian Christian tourist, and to protest Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. Israeli snipers deployed on the Israel-Gaza boundary fired machine guns, live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinian civilians who were peacefully gathered near the eastern fence. Those forces injured 40+ Palestinians, half of whom are children. A sniper was wounded as Palestinians were attempting to remove the sniper's weapon, and one of the Palestinians (so far unidentified) shot though the sniper's murder hole with a handgun. >Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett swiftly vowed to “even the score” – revenge rhetoric reminiscent of his predecessors. >The Palestinian right to armed resistance against foreign occupation and colonization is enshrined in international law. >The blackmail and threats to withhold basic humanitarian needs and rights from the civilian population as collective punishment for any resistance violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. The convention, by which Israel is bound, states that no civilian under military occupation “may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed.” Such outlawed collective penalties are however Israel’s standard operating procedure, which it can continue due to the total impunity afforded to it by the so-called international community.
www.aljazeera.com
A couple passages that I thought were striking: > According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Australia’s 670,000 Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders have long suffered from poor health and still suffer from preventable diseases like trachoma that are found nowhere else in the developed world. > One-third die by the age of 45, and the average life expectancy for Indigenous people is more than 10 years less than non-Indigenous Australians. The rate of rheumatic heart disease among Australia’s “First Nation” peoples is the highest in the world – 75 times higher than the rate of non-Indigenous Australians. Gastroenteritis, kidney disease, diabetes, influenza – the list of chronic illnesses goes on and on and explains why Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders were identified as “a clearly defined vulnerable community” at the start of Australia’s vaccine rollout in February. on housing: > “The reality of living in remote rural communities is that there is still a housing crisis in 2021, that abject poverty is the norm and you are sharing a home with your aunties and uncles, nieces and nephews, and there are people sleeping rough on your couch,” the community elder in Wilcannia explained.
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Can we have a rule that prevents using the word "American/s" to refer to Usonians?
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I've seen USian before (today, actually).
Late Stage Capitalism
Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
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Add these images next to me speaking in post production? No, I don't think so. I'll just stand on a ladder next to a power point's projection shining directly into my eyes, thank you.
Interesting video though
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Yeah the framing in this article is crazy. Appealing to climate concerns to prop up a 'climate chauvinism' is nauseating
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This was cross-posted to /c/socialism and fared well (considering that it's only marginally smaller than this community), but here in c/anarchism it receives 3 downvotes. This struck me as a strange thing to downvote. I wonder if anyone could maybe express why they decided to downvote it...
* [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/8ehmom41kh2a4xh/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.epub/file) * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/kyuzudh10rfm93j/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.mobi/file) * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/9czipth8lybuhmd/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.pdf/file) * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/historical-materialism.htm) * [Original HTML](http://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/lobby/2379/GortHisMat.htm) * [Other ebooks](https://app.mediafire.com/folder/m3wvt7vseep2y/EPUB+Public+Library) Image Description: > A portrait oriented book cover. The background is black. The title at the top reads 'Historical Materialism' and the bottom of the cover reads 'By Herman Gorter. With a Preface by Karl Kautsky.' The font is in a dark pink. In the center there is a colorful painted portrait of Herman Gorter as a young man.
Includes the preface by Karl Kautsky * [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/8ehmom41kh2a4xh/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.epub/file) * [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/kyuzudh10rfm93j/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.mobi/file) * [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/9czipth8lybuhmd/Gorter%252C_Herman_-_Historical_Materialism.pdf/file) * [HTML](https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/historical-materialism.htm) * [Original HTML](http://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/lobby/2379/GortHisMat.htm) * [Other ebooks](https://bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs) Image Description: > A portrait oriented book cover. The background is black. The title at the top reads 'Historical Materialism' and the bottom of the cover reads 'By Herman Gorter. With a Preface by Karl Kautsky.' The font is in a dark pink. In the center there is a colorful painted portrait of Herman Gorter as a young man.
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I'll interpret that as Marxism-Leninism I guess.
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I agree with what poVoq said but I still have a question. What do you mean by communism? Are you meaning Marxism-Leninism? Actual communism is stateless, so it'd be described as an anarchy (unless you're an individualist anarchist or something where a pizza party is the state).
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No socialism has ruled in any country, to be clear. I'll assume that you mean in terms of being ruled by Marxist-Leninist parties, in which case that's only really half true. Leninism and Marxist-Leninism are distinct tendencies.
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I have only read Volume 1. I read it in college in a reading circle as part of an independent study.
A collection of non-Leninist Marxist texts including: Herman Gorter * Open Letter to Comrade Lenin * Why We Need the Fourth Communist Workers' International * Historical Materialism Anton Pannekoek * The Labor Movement and Socialism * The German Revolution - The First Stage * Socialism and Anarchism *Trade Unionism * The Party and Class * State Capitalism and Dictatorship Sylvia Pankhurst * Communism and Its Tactics (both versions) Paul Mattick * What is Communism? * Workers' Councils and Communist Organization of Economy Otto Rühle * The Revolution is not a Party Affair * Report from Moscow [EPUB](https://www.mediafire.com/file/nm8u8qci8irqt4i/non-leninist_leftcom.epub/file) [MOBI](https://www.mediafire.com/file/k1kefgsdfbp7cyf/non-leninist_leftcom.mobi/file) [EPUB with alternative cover (the one I posted)](https://www.mediafire.com/file/w8etue3c3a1mdf6/non-leninist_leftcom_altcover.epub/file) [PDF](https://www.mediafire.com/file/kxuiju623i7rju3/non-leninist_leftom_%2528epub-pdf%2529.pdf/file) Other ebooks: https://bit.ly/CommunistEPUBs
Announcements
New community: !communities
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Image Description: Geordi la Forge dis/approve meme. Geordi disapproves of the terms “Lower-phase communism” and “higher-phase communism.” He approves of “Baby Communism” and “Big Kid Communism.”
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When I was younger I'd shoplift prolifically. I don't shoplift anymore, mostly because I don't want to risk arrest for something as stupid and superfluous as shoplifting.
That said, while I've worked in retail, I've let people get away with shoplifting. If it's too obvious though and they're shoplifting so obviously and poorly that if I felt that if I'd let them get away with it'd cost me my job, I'd have to do something.
In my opinion shoplifting is a trivial thing to worry about. A lot of people depend on shoplifting or other theft in order to sustain themselves, which means it's a symptom of the broader issue of poverty wages and unemployment. If in a discussion someone were to bring up shoplifting somehow I'd bend the argument there or simply the easy twist towards the argument about originary accumulation and how property itself rests on theft.
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Thanks for posting. L&W really fucked over marxists.org
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I'm an anarchist and I pretty much agree. I think that it's important to try to understand where your parents are coming from and why it is, exactly, they are attempting to forbid you from accessing a computer and what kind of behavior they think they're trying to deter.
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tsk tsk
The lower, approved image is a frame from [this video on Twitter](https://twitter.com/lamda14/status/1317519607029207041?s=20) ([non-Twitter](https://nitter.net/lamda14/status/1317519607029207041)) I'm not sure how to name these kinds of dis/approval memes.
www.mediafire.com
Made this so I could read it on my phone. Here's a Discord-hosted [Direct Download](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/758208747314348043/766094889511288862/Lenin_V._I._-_The_Tax_in_Kind.epub) for those who dislike using Mediafire. I also made a [MOBI](http://www.mediafire.com/file/49lbfyu029klosj/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_The_Tax_in_Kind.mobi/file) ([Direct Download](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/758208747314348043/766095345004052521/The_Tax_in_Kind_-_V._I._Lenin.mobi)) and [PDF](http://www.mediafire.com/file/om48e1rbkbxnjm2/Lenin%252C_V._I._-_The_Tax_in_Kind.pdf/file) ([Direct Download](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/758208747314348043/766095349780971560/The_Tax_in_Kind_-_V._I._Lenin.pdf)) because that's just the thing to do when you make these sorts of things...
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Very yes.
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The concluding two paragraphs struck me as very strange. Hefty liberal and imperial bias in this piece.
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Yes. Accelerationism doesn't actually work. It's a lack of organizing, co-option from the right, and the desperate circumstances of late capitalism which summoned this fascist turn and the bizarre Trump-cult.
A worse situation won't make someone think any differently when they already have a false consciousness prone to magical thinking.
Socialism
Video explaining the Philadelphia Housing Action's agreement with the City to pass vacant houses into a community land trust to move homeless families into
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It did not require that for me. Are you on mobile?
www.instagram.com
Here’s their [press release](https://philadelphiahousingaction.info/release-philadelphia-housing-action-claims-victory-after-6-month-direct-action-campaign-forces-city-to-relinquish-50-vacant-homes-to-community-land-trust/) a couple days ago announcing that success. [Bibliogram version](https://bibliogram.art/p/CFp7_KpDzKx) for those of us without Instagram
testSeems to me that their code of conduct fits with the beliefs of Peertube.Social. I'm not really sure where else I can recommend this.
www.mediafire.com
I made this EPUB with Sigil. Here's a Discord-hosted [direct download](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/645796281285083147/757029503292670062/Luxemburg_Rosa_-_The_Russian_Revolution.epub) if you'd rather bypass mediafire. I've noticed that Mediafire isn't really so bad, though. I got the text from [Marxists Internet Archive](https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/index.htm), of course. The markup is mostly intact, even. There is one tiny flaw with the metadata. It shows the text as being published in 1918 rather than 1940 (at least in Calibre) although I'd specified with Sigil that it was created in 1918 and published in 1940. It's not really an issue, I guess. Just something for me to remember in the future. You can get the other EPUBs that I've arranged [here](http://www.mediafire.com/folder/m3wvt7vseep2y/EPUB+Public+Library). If you've got a suggestion for an EPUB to make, let me know.