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Notes on a radical interpretation of the Cold War

[Also here]. I’ve been reading Gabriel and Joyce Kolko’s classic The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–54...

A Marxist history of World War II

I recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take...

Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China

Years ago I read and took some notes on various works by Hannah Arendt. In particular her classic Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a...

Saving Marxism from Lenin

[This is an excerpt from Notes of an Underground Humanist.] You should read Peter Kropotkin’s essay “The State: Its Historic Role.”...

Capitalism, socialism, and planning

Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...

Socialism and communism

[Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism,...