Marxism
Communist Party of China at 100: A look past mainstream commentary
June 30, 2021Riffing on Karl Marx, Francis Fukuyama infamously dubbed 1989-91 to be the “end of history," signaling that liberal capitalism was the final stage in human evolution. So how has China defied Western expectations?
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Chinese Communists prepare for 100th birthday, take stock of achievements
June 29, 2021The Communist Party of China will mark its centenary on July 1.
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Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The groundbreaking role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was first lost in the fog of anti-communism and again later under the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the standards and social...
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The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
May 28, 2021The Communards, who knew nothing but violence and exploitation, wished for peace and spared their enemy. Yet history necessitates the unequivocal assumption of political power under penalty of defeat.
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Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism
April 28, 2021Karl Marx called it the first worker’s republic established in the history of humanity.
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