Ideology and Theory

Marx, Lenin and their heirs: what communist ideology promised, how Marxism-Leninism justified the party's monopoly on power, and how theory met practice.

• 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.

• Mao Zedong Thought: The Ideology the Party Still Defends

  What Mao Zedong Thought taught, what it cost, and how the Communist Party kept it as doctrine while blaming its disasters on Mao's 'errors'.

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