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    Notes on a radical interpretation of the Cold War
    • Jul 30, 2019
    • 18 min

    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
    • Nov 17, 2016
    • 1 min

    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
    • May 31, 2016
    • 1 min

    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
    • Sep 13, 2015
    • 4 min

    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
    • Feb 11, 2015
    • 2 min

    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
    • Oct 29, 2014
    • 4 min

    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,...

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