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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...
Jul 30, 201918 min read
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...
Nov 17, 20161 min read
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...
May 31, 20161 min read
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.”...
Sep 13, 20154 min read
Capitalism, socialism, and planning
Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...
Feb 11, 20152 min read
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,...
Oct 29, 20144 min read
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