Class conflict, as Marxists preach it, must be taught. Workers do not spontaneously see themselves as historical agents of class war. Would workers automatically rise up merely because monopolies...
Roman Kireev
Roman Kireev is a recluse. An aesthete. A collector of dangerous ideas. Some consider him a threat to international stability. His essays are translated with caution, footnoted in diplomatic cables, and banned in at least two central banks.
Officially educated in Europe — though accounts diverge. Some claim he studied semiotics under an excommunicated structuralist in Paris; others suggest he lectured on economics in Austria under a false name before vanishing for three years. Only to resurface with a manuscript so volatile, three editors were hospitalized after reading it. One was permanently changed.
He is said to reside in a collapsing Palladian palazzo near Vicenza, lit by candelabras and shared with two former Viennese opera singers. He writes in ink. Drinks absinthe. And has never once used a calculator. His email address is marginalutility@inhumanaction.com.
