Books
Funding loyalty: The economics of the Soviet Communist Party
June 19, 2017New book details the large-scale financial-political enterprise that was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Read moreA “people’s history” that is less than inspiring!
May 8, 2017Zinn’s People’s History is that it served to amplify the voice of the common person, not great leaders. Faulkner’s book goes in the other direction.
Read morePatricia McKissack, author of African-American children’s books, dies
April 12, 2017“To me, reading is like breathing; both are essential to life.”—Patricia C. McKissack
Read moreMarx, psychiatry, and national liberation come together in Fanon bio
April 5, 2017To ‘New Leftists’, few authors and revolutionaries loom as large as Frantz Fanon. His most well-known book, The Wretched of the Earth, is a mainstay of left literature.
Read moreHow long is Lenin’s shadow?
March 28, 2017There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.
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