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Recovering a history of Indigenous Communism in the US
Posted by Owen Walsh and Kathryn Berry on 2025-10-20
The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) has long been seen as a thoroughly ‘un-American’ organisation, not least by Cold War historians. Over recent decades, the claim that Communism only ever appeared in the US as a hostile Soviet plot has been roundly refuted in scholarship. Instead, scholars have established the importance of Communists to thoroughly American cultural traditions, civil rights [...]
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Beyond the Factory: How Mariátegui and Gramsci Reimagined Marxism for their Worlds
Posted by Vaclav Masek Sánchez on 2025-09-11
How did two Marxist thinkers from seemingly different worlds develop strikingly similar ideas without ever meeting? In the early 1920s, in a world shattered by war and remade by revolution, Italy effervesced. In the industrial city of Turin, two young men from different continents found themselves in the same radicalizing milieu. Antonio Gramsci, a Sardinian intellectual, was helping lead [...]
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Trotsky in the Andes
Posted by Peter Morgan on 2025-07-03
The late 1920s were a hard time to be a cosmopolitan Marxist. Anticommunists were going after Marxism for its lack of nationalism, and the Soviet Union itself – increasingly dominated by Stalin – had dialled down the internationalism of the early Russian Revolution. All of this was a headache for the Peruvian thinker, José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930). Mariátegui is the most important figure in [...]
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