Vladimir Lenin Archives - Public Seminar

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

May 9, 2023 • by Igor Torbakov

"Losing" Ukraine to an external enemy or to a domestic secessionist movement would be tantamount to the dismemberment of the national body....

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Why Socialists Should Support the Democratic Ticket in November…

… Even if it is led by Joe Biden

May 28, 2020 • by Max B. Sawicky

Enthused by the wave of support for the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016, I joined DSA shortly after leaving the federal government the following year. The group seemed well-positioned to take that wave of support and turn it into something enduring. My optimism has been elevated by the emergence of ...

Why Socialists Should Support the Democratic Ticket in November…

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Reflections on the Development of a Post-truth Regime

Donald Trump and the politically correct

July 27, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; i.e., the class which is the ruling material force in society is at the same time the ruling intellectual force.” Marx and Engels, The German Ideology We sociologists know that each idea, each creative expression, each truth claim appears ...

Reflections on the Development of a Post-truth Regime

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One Hundred Years of Communism

A look at Leninism

November 13, 2017 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu

On November 7, 1917 (October 25, old style), the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government, took over power, and established their totalitarian rule (the first one-party system ever). Lenin called it "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Rule of law and traditional morality were discarded as "bourgeois hypocrisy." Political competition between parties ...

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What Cass Sunstein Gets Wrong About Marxism, Sanders, and American Politics

Heightening the Contradictions and Missing the Point

October 31, 2017 • by Jan Dutkiewicz and Andrew Norris

Sunstein mentions, in his lone footnote, that his account of Marx and Lenin’s views on “heightening the contradictions” is “a brisk summary of some famously complex and ambiguous arguments.” But the problem is not that his summary is overly brisk, but that it is fundamentally inaccurate and is used as ...

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Trump and the Anti-Establishment Fantasy

The Balance of Power in the New Trump Administration

December 14, 2016 • by Rafael Khachaturian

After running as a political outsider, Donald Trump now finds himself having to navigate between two uneasily aligned factions. On one side is an emboldened right-populist base, personified by incoming White House chief strategist and Senior Counselor Stephen Bannon, that wants to see a fundamental turnover among the people in ...