“O Diabo é o Pai do Rock.” – Raul Seixas Uma das melhores sínteses sobre o blues que conheço foi proferida por um de seus mestres maiores, Taj Mahal: “the blues is a balm for people in bondage”, isto é, o blues seria um bálsamo para um povo que...
THE BLACK JACOBINS by C.R.L. James (1901-1989) From the author’s preface: “In 1789 the French West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied 2/3 of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave-trade. It was an integral part of the economic life of...
“Plato’s Utopia is more terrifying than Orwell’s 1984 because Plato desires to happen what Orwell fears might happen. ‘That Plato’s Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history’, remarked Bertrand Russell. In Plato’s...