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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: communism
Collapse Ethics: Anarchy or Coercion?
The reaction to my article on the “ecotechnic dictatorship” garnered a vigorous response on this blog, and more of a vitriolic one elsewhere (see below for a summary). So let’s ask the question outright. Suppose that all your observations and … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, collapse, communism, energy, environment, ethics, human rights, politics, vision
19 Comments
Human Sustainable Development Index
How should the ecotechnic dictatorship measure its progress and define its legitimacy to the people, since continued physical output growth is anathema? How can one reconcile a post-scarcity environment with the sustainably low level of physical throughput that we need … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged communism, economy, education, environment, ethics, politics, publ
1 Comment
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, usa, vision, war
38 Comments
The Final Gambit: Geoengineering
It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm – the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less – will fail. This will lead … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, energy, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, global dimming, human rights, philosophy, science, technology, vision
6 Comments
Green Communism
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, rant, singularity, technology, vision
13 Comments
Zizek’s Metapolitics
Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, crime, culture, history, human rights, imperialism, marxism, matrix, philosophy, politics, singularity, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy
3 Comments
The Deeper Meaning of Climategate
As someone who has stuck his neck out for the imminent reality of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in both his real and online life, it would be fitting for me to comment on the Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, morale, peak oil, politics, rant, vision
13 Comments
Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
Anatoly Karlin @ www.SublimeOblivion.com PDF version | DOC version Russia’s Sisyphean Loop The Eternal Return to the Future? In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, core article, corruption, culture, demography, economy, geopolitics, history, imperialism, jews, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, poland, putin, resource depletion, russia, russians, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy, western media
5 Comments
The Struggle between Europe and Mankind
Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged communism, corruption, culture, germany, human rights, imperialism, international relations, japan, liberasty, marxism, morale, philosophy, putin, russians, russophobes, vision, western hypocrisy
13 Comments
Fear and Fervor under Stalinist Industrialization
Review of “Behind the Urals” (J. Scott) Scott, John – Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel (1941) Category: history, Soviet Union, Stalin; Rating: 5/5 The Great Depression of the 1930’s, with its iconic images of well-dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, culture, history, human rights, politics, review, russians, soviet union, stalin
8 Comments