Fifty years ago, on 4 June 1971, the philosopher Georg Lukács died in Budapest.The Barricade
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Tag: Stalinism
How should the contemporary socialist left relate to the history of ‘actually existing socialism’?
Lenin danced in the snow on the day that his Soviet Republic had officially lasted longer than the 1871 Paris Commune. Did you know that?Ben BurgisBen Burgis is a leftist philosophy professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College and the author of the best-selling Give Them An Argument: Logic for
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Put a hammer to your sickle or the disadvantages of the October anniversary
The revolution from over a century ago and its anniversary are useful for us, but in a different manner than you might think. Boyan StanislavskiBulgarian and Polish activist, journalist, editor, publisher and translator. In the late `90 active in the Polish left and later in the labor movement, particularly the
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