Doug Enaa

Accepting Spinoza’s premises, the path to wisdom is potentially open to everyone.

-Jonathan Israel, Spinoza: Life and Legacy

Lars Lih’s What was Bolshevism: The Trap of Continuity Originally published by Left Voice . The Canadian academic Lars Lih is an independent scholar of Soviet history with a particular focus on ...

Reprinted over at my blog. blanquist.blogspot.com/2025/01/lars...

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If you sympathize with a health insurance CEO then you aren't human.

The Inquisition with Footnotes: Grover Furr’s Stalinist Conspiracy Theories - Left Voice Stalinist academic Grover Furr has dedicated his career to zealous defense of the Soviet Union with cherrypicked data and crude falsehoods. His latest book, Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy, is no excep...

My latest essay on Mister Furr was republished over at Left Voice.

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The Inquisition with Footnotes: Grover Furr’s Stalinist Conspiracy Theories - Firebrand Stalinist academic Grover Furr has dedicated his career to zealous defense of the Soviet Union with cherrypicked data and crude falsehoods. His latest book, Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy, is no excep...

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The Democrats are not a leftist organization, so any thought pieces trying to attribute problems of the left to them should be dismissed out of hand.

It's a crime that Victor Serge's novels haven't been adapted to film.

JFK conspiracy theories are a waste of time. There are plenty of actual crimes of imperialism to be concerned about.

#ImWithBigfoot

No matter who won this week, Democrat victories and losses are not our losses. We take some time to reflect on what the election of Donald Trump.

Later a former IWW embezzler/theif and current A”C”P member Chris Helali was elected to Vermont's town office.

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Every colonizer recognizes themselves in Israel.

🌟 Guest speaker Doug Enaa Greene (he/him) is an independent communist historian from the Boston area. He has written biographies of the communist insurgent Louis Auguste Blanqui and DSA founder Michael Harrington, as well as Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn. His forthcoming book, The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky, offers an authoritative historiography of the German socialist theorist and his impact on the contemporary left. 📕 Recommended Material “Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade” by Doug Enaa Greene https://www.leftvoice.org/karl-kautsky-from-pope-to-renegade/ “Kautsky, Luxemburg, and Lenin in Light of the German Revolution” by Nathanial Flakin https://www.leftvoice.org/kautsky-luxemburg-and-lenin-in-light-of-the-german-revolution/ “Karl Kautsky” by Leon Trotsky https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/11/kautsky.htm 👎 Bonus Hate-reading “Why Kautsky Was Right (and Why You Should Care)” by Eric Blanc https://jacobin.com/2019/04/karl-kautsky-democratic-socialism-elections-rupture Why Kautsky Was Wrong (And Why You Should Care) — Denver Communists

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"The essence of our programme can be expressed in two words: proletarian dictatorship."

-Leon Trotsky

FYI, we are four days away from the 20th anniversary of Mean Girls. To me, this is a holiday on par with May Day or the Bolshevik Revolution.

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’ Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

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Remember that everyone who advocates for Biden and the Democrats doesn't consider supporting genocide to be a deal-breaker.

"One does not read Joyce today, let alone write about him, without remembering the fifteen-year-long struggle for freedom of the people of Northern Ireland; the following then, for whatever it is worth, must necessarily be dedicated to them."

-Frederic Jameson, Ulysses in History (1982)

"You don't fight fascism because you are going to win. You fight fascism because it is fascist."

Jean-Paul Sartre

You don't know shit about me. Fuck off.

How does "equal rights for all" equal genocide?