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About bsolahLocation: Melbourne, Australia Home Region: Age:23 Website: http://www.benjaminsolah.com Favorite novels: Fight Club, The Green Mile, IT, Pilo Family Circus, Norwegian Wood, Favorite writers: Stephen King, China Mieville, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, John Steinbeck, Christos Tsiolkas Favorite music: Cog, Tool, Marilyn Manson, Carpathian, Rise Against, System of a Down, Slipknot, Machine Head. Non-noveling interests: politics, Marxism, protesting, blogging, reading, photography |
Joined: October 22, 2004 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 112 NaNoWriMo buddies: 11
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Brief Author Bio: Benjamin Solah is Marxist horror writer living in Melbourne, Australia. Primarily a short fiction writer, he writes about all of the horrors in our capitalist society from war and exploitation of workers to the oppressions of racism and homophobia. This is his sixth NaNoWriMo, and second in Melbourne after four years in Sydney. He has never finished the 50,000 words with his best performance in 2005 with around 30,000 words toward a dark fantasy novel about revolution. This year, he aims to destroy capitalism within the first 10,000 words. |
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Synopsis: Barbarism
"Friedrich Engels once said: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”… the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery…In this war imperialism has won. Its bloody sword of genocide has brutally tilted the scale toward the abyss of misery. The only compensation for all the misery and all the shame would be if we learn from the war how the proletariat can seize mastery of its own destiny and escape the role of the lackey to the ruling classes."
- The Junius Pamphlet, Rosa Luxemburg, 1915
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