Communism and the West

Communist parties, sympathizers and apologists in Western democracies, and the long debate over how Western intellectuals saw the communist regimes.

• Unhumans (2024): A Book Note

  What the 2024 polemic Unhumans argues about communist revolutions and the American left, who endorsed it, and how reviewers on the left and right received it.

• Howard Zinn on Communism: What He Said and What He Left Out

  In 1988 Howard Zinn said the Russian Revolution killed 'about 100 people.' What he said about communism, in context, and what the record shows.

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