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Gramsci’s “Jacobin Prince” and Leading Light Communism

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Part 2/3 of a series on Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci

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In Greek Mythology, there is a story about how humanity received fire. The Titan Prometheus …

Comments on Agriculture and Food in Crisis (2010, Monthly Review Press) ed. by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar.

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In the period between 2006 and 2008, a world food crisis emerged. Agriculture and Food in Crisis (2010, Monthly Review Press) …

MIM: Review of the “Black Book of Communism”

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[Before MIM’s crackpot degeneration and despite their errors, MIM made some outstanding contributions to the proletarian struggle.]

The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press) is the bible of the …

Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) by Gotz Aly review

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Gotz Aly’s book Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) is a groundbreaking book. Aly breaks with the dogmatic view held by many myth-makers on the “left” that the German working class despised Hitler’s tyranny. It …

Molotov, MIM, Dogma, and Stalin’s support for Israel

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Stalin was a great socialist leader, but it is important to tell the truth about his mistakes. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a high-ranking, important member of Stalin’s regime. Today’s Stalinists occasionally …

Review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment

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André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopement, written in 1972, is a short summary of the evolution of dependency in Latin America from the colonial period through the neocolonial period up to the …

Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations
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Malcolm Caldwell was one of the only Westerners to visit Kampuchea (Cambodia) under the “Khmer Rouge” regime. He is mostly remembered as the academic activist who was assassinated …

The Slum within the Global  Countryside: Reflections inspired by Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums

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“The brutal tectonics of neoliberal globalization since 1978 are analogous to the catastrophic process that shaped a ‘Third World’ in the first place, during the