Communism, Marxism and socialism are all different economic and political ideas. As concepts, they all seek to move toward greater economic equality and public participation in democracy.
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Right-wing Antonio Gramsci adherents simplify and vulgarize the late Italian philosopher’s thought, reducing it to slogans. In doing so, they’re protecting the political status quo.
Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, helping raise anti-communist fervor after World War II and illustrating how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.
Meet the 19th century reformer Kang Youwei who inspired the founder of modern-day China.
Russia and Vietnam pledge to strengthen ties as Vladimir Putin visits Hanoi.
Political scientists describe the age we are living in as “post-political”. This controversial concept refers to a noted lack of political alternatives on a global scale.
A world where the US has fewer allies would be an even more dangerous place.
During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’
Starting in 1950, as the fear of communist subversion spread throughout America, McCarthy launched hearings that were based on scant evidence and overblown charges.
Western hostility towards China reflects the grudging realization that the West may not be the pinnacle of achievement after all.
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
The Catholic community that Pope Francis will visit later this month has a complex history that goes back to the 13th century, when the Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan.
Nadia Comăneci was the most famous gymnast in the world when she defected from Romania in 1989. A new book includes 25,000 pages worth of secret police surveillance material.
Western democracies can best help the world by doing more to live up to their highest ideals and approaching their relations with the rest of the world with humility borne from historical awareness.
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
Marco Bellochio’s series is the latest interpretation of a murder that continues to haunt Italy.
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
A new book argues the war against Ukraine is an escalation of an ongoing hybrid war of ‘Russia’ against ‘the West’ – and that only ‘real and credible force’ will make Putin step back from aggression.
Kath O'Connor’s debut novel, Inheritance, follows two women – an IVF hopeful and her grandmother – who carry the BRCA1 gene and contract ovarian cancer. It’s very close to being memoir.
As Martin Luther King Jr. gained national prominence, the FBI launched several investigations to prove that King and his radical allies were communist sympathizers and a danger to America.
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