In Defence of Communism Norah Hanson Teemu Manninen is a poet

Teemu Manninen is a poet and literary critic based in Tampere

satire and melancholy

his latest being Heaven’s Gate (Seren

including biographical and bibliographical detail on each poet

Buntin writes with scrupulous attention to the agency of love in a wounded and venomous world

In Defence of Communism Norah Hanson Teemu Manninen is a poetOriginally published in Dutch in 2017, this essay is a critique on the intellectual hold of destructive, non sustainable capitalism on Western thought. It challenges the way that Soviet and Chinese totalitarianism has been used to discredit the idealism of 19th century communism. Reaching out from the intellectual and historical legacy of Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg, Peek investigates what he sees as the inevitable failure of capitalism, and argues