Against Empire Chapter 3: Intervention: Whose Gain? Whose Pain?

Welcome to The Workers Reading Room, this reading is Michael Parentis Against Empire, Chapter 3: Intervention: Whose Gain? Whose Pain? Read solo by me.

All art in the slideshow comes from a Soviet art group on Vkontakte with admin permission. The paintings are in the following order, with the Autumn Fields as number 1:

1.Brodskaya Lydia Isaakovna (1910-1991) Autumn fields 1985
2.Kiselev Viktor Vasilyevich (1907-1985) Radio on the collective farm 1951
3.Kopnina Tatyana Vladimirovna (1921-2009) Warm day 1967
4.Kotov Ivan Semyonovich (1923-1989) The last pasture 1956
5.Laktionov Alexander Ivanovich (1910-1972) February 1956
6.Lavrova Vera Mikhailovna (1924-1993) At the kiosk 1950s
7.Levitin Anatoly Pavlovich (1922-2018) Ivan Fedorovich Poterailo and his comrades from the series Builders of Siberia 1979
8.Makarov Dmitry Sergeevich (1930-2006) Autumn in the village 1985
9.Melnikov Dmitry Ivanovich (1923-1999) Pensioner 1980
10.Monoszon Monas Isaakovich (1907-1980) Urban landscape 1971

Outro music is Franz Liszts Liebestraum(Love Dream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3DVrZ-qp4