The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new …
Comintern
Leninās Boys: A Short History of Soviet Hungary
Doug Enaa Greene on the Hungarian Soviet Republic and its tragic defeat.Ā It is 1919 and Russia is in the midst of a ruthless civil …
The Many Worlds of American Communism
On this episode of Cosmopod, Donald and Parker welcome Cosmonaut author Josh Morris on to discuss the history and historiography of the US Communist Party. …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism.Ā Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
The Origin of the Split and the Reconstruction of Unity by Karl Kilbom
Introduction and translation by Tom Anderson. Original article can be found here. The following text was written by Karl Kilbom in 1938 after he had …
‘Expelled, but Communist’ by Boris Souvarine
Translation and introduction by Medway Baker.Ā Boris Souvarine was one of the leading founders of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1921, after having founded …
Debating Electoral Strategy in the Comintern, 1920: The Bulgarian Situation
Reviewing the debates over electoral strategy at the Second Congress of the Comintern, Donald Parkinson reviews the strategies of the Bulgarian Communist Party and their …
Revolution or the Democratic Road to Socialism? A Reply to Eric Blanc
Donald Parkinson responds to Eric Blanc’s latest take in the Kautsky debate, critiquing his strategy of a democratic road to socialism.Ā The recent debate hosted …
The Democratic Road to Socialism: Reply to Mike Taber
Eric Blanc replies to Mike Taber’s article Lenin, Kautsky and the Transition to Socialism and argues that the work of Karl Kautsky provides a strategy …