Running Aground: The RCP and Stalinism
Analyzing the intellectual output of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP), Doug Enaa Greene argues that, despite a few moments of minor insight, the Party …
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Lenin’s Boys: A Short History of Soviet Hungary
Doug Enaa Greene on the Hungarian Soviet Republic and its tragic defeat. It is 1919 and Russia is in the midst of a ruthless civil …
A Fight on Two Fronts: On Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise
Doug Enaa Greene and Shalon van Tine discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise in its historical context. Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967) is not an ordinary …
The Democratic Socialist Cul-de-sac: A Critical Look at The Socialist Manifesto
Doug Enaa Greene reviews The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara (New York: Basic Books, 2019). Rather than an innovative take on socialist politics for the …
Leon Trotsky and Cultural Revolution
Doug Enaa Greene argues that in Trotsky’s work a theory of cultural revolution can be found, one which differs from Mao Zedong’s that was developed …
Michael Harrington and His Afterlives
Doug Enaa Greene gives an overview and critique of the political journey of Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialist of America, and his influence …
Missing Victory? Blanqui and the Paris Commune
Louis August Blanqui was a key revolutionary leader in the French Socialist movement. Yet when the Paris Commune erupted in 1871, Blanqui was in prison, …