Sachin Sharma

I've just bought my copy of this book and am about 61 pages in. I am greatly excited about the work of the author who has invested many years of research into the subject. Hats off to him and I feel like I am sitting on a shoulder of a giant for all the hard work him and the people around him have given. Mine is a reprint (2018). I first came across him through his hosts, the CPGB-PCC in the UK. That event, called Communist University, left saying Kautsky, Kautsky, Kautsky. I was the same. Though I have just started reading the book, notably I find it very readable. It is very readable. An personal affinity I have to the author is that he got his PHD in the year that I was born. Looking back at the revolutions in Europe at the end of the 19th and through the 20th Century, and perhaps thinking 'what went wrong' this author has managed to connect me to all of it. Through all the wars that are happening in the political left with circles getting smaller and smaller there are some green shoots emerging. I confidently believe that many (if not all) of the green shoots will come out of the reconnection of the fourth internationals, the third to the first and second, and this author is a guiding light for parts and all of it. Sachin

Sadly I only learned of Callahan's death after he died. As a state servant, researcher and an academic I think he has a lot to give us all. He has already given so much. There is much of his research being rediscovered; anyone with access to academic literature will be able to see it. There is some criticism about a dichotomy in the book. This lies in how to be at the forefront of research but also getting across this information to an audience that finds this sort of work generally inaccessible. The edition of this book I have is ISBN 0-8234-0181-2 People with an interest about the autecology of insects (I understand I have used this term for my own use) but little learning about insects will find this stimulating. You'll learn about how they crawl, flap digest and see. If you don't have access to a telescope you will be able to see. There are many gorgeous illustrations and graphs that will make anyone with any knowledge of flight in general just to glow (and I only say this because so much literature is about how planes fly and not just a dragonfly). People today investigating not only electrical stimuli, communication with ships, satellites and communication generally with use of the electromagnetic spectrum will find it stimulating too. Before he had his chance to directly test out nature he did work in many things including electrics. His published research is going to come back to the many fields he worked in is what I can guess. Those who have ideas about humanist agriculture may even discover his works.

This was a really informative way of posing a country's economic standing in a wold context under great repression. The author, using the disguise of Japan, manages to give a great snapshot of what the world was like at this point. Only gone for for four stars though. I've been musing over thoughts but here is one: -Perhaps more references could have been sourced (a limitation during a war, but not inabsolveable) Hats off to the author