The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel …
literature
Reintroducing John Dos Passos
Lawrence Parker introduces a 1938 New Masses article by Granville Hicks on US writer John Dos Passos and argues that the latter’s work is ripe …
Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: …
Economic Circulations: Blood-Based Systems of Value in Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star
Virginia L. Conn discusses the nature of blood exchange as a basis for collectivism in Alexander Bogdanov sci-fi masterpiece Red Star. IN his pre-revolutionary novel …