The Mad, Mad, Mad West: (A Satire On Uncle Sam's War On Russia)
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In this context it has also to be borne in mind that Russia's 'special military operation' in Ukraine is a defensive war in order to safeguard short-term & long-term integrity of Russian statehood against the US-led drive to encircle Russia by establishing a NATO nuclear base in Ukraine. Thus, it is a US- led war on Russia rather than Russia's war on the West or Ukraine.
The ultimate objective of the US-led coalition is to dismember Russia into small statelets controlled by the West in order to exploit their rich natural resources. In that devious scheme to topple Vladimir Putin occupies the main plank.
The satirical pieces included in the book are based on one theme - the hysterical & jocular response of the West to Vladimir Putin's defensive war in Ukraine.
That hysterical response includes not only severe economic sanctions against Russia but also jocular and over the top Western response which includes canceling Russian culture, language & eminent Russian cultural figures like Fyodor Dostoevsky, etc.
One is hard pressed to understand as to how anyone in sane mind can boycott the heavy weights which comprise all humanity.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Igor Stravinsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky and other Russian greats are a common repository of all mankind - East or West & no boycott can ever erase their contribution to humanity in the minds of the people of the West. Or of the East.
The response of the West to Russia's 'special military operation' in Ukraine has been so illogical & crazy that an institute in the US banned Karl Marx from its curriculum without taking into account that Karl Marx was not Russian but German and the fact that Russia is not a communist country.
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Manu Kant is a writer, satirist and working-class poet. Born in Patiala, Punjab and brought up in Chandigarh, he studied journalism at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow from 1987 to 1993, during the final years of the Soviet Union. The intellectual climate of that period and the enduring traditions of Russian literature and revolutionary thought left a deep imprint on his worldview, and Russia remains close to his heart.
Over the decades, he has written essays, satire and political commentary for newspapers and journals including The Tribune, The Indian Express, The Pioneer and the Kolkata-based weekly Frontier, founded by Samar Sen. His writing seeks to combine literary expression with a materialist understanding of society and history. He is the author of fifteen books spanning satire, political reflection and literary commentary, including Chandigarh Urban Poor: A Street Diary (Poems 2015–2025), Mother, and The Mad, Mad, Mad West: A Satire on Uncle Sam’s War on Russia.
Kant’s intellectual outlook is shaped by the traditions of scientific socialism and the broader history of revolutionary struggle. He draws inspiration from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, and remains committed to the historical mission of the working class. He writes from the standpoint of the working class and vehemently opposes US imperialism and Israeli Zionism as expressions of monopoly capital and systems of exploitation and domination. His sympathies extend to the long line of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles—from Toussaint Louverture and John Brown to Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Bhagat Singh—and to African leaders such as Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara, whose struggles reflect the global fight against oppression.
The history of popular resistance, from medieval peasant uprisings to modern working-class movements, occupies an important place in his writing and thought. In literature and criticism, he is influenced by the Russian democratic thinker Vissarion Belinsky and the broader tradition of Russian cultural and revolutionary writing. His outlook is grounded in the experiences of the oppressed—workers, peasants, and marginalized communities across India and the world—whose struggles continue to inform his moral and intellectual commitments.
Alongside his writing, Kant has spent decades building a personal collection of Marxist and progressive literature, including rare works on revolutionary history, Soviet culture and the international labour movement. His engagement with books and ideas reflects a lifelong effort to understand and articulate the forces shaping society.
Scribe. Working-class poet. Satirist. Marxist-Leninist.
