We sit down with Doug Greene to discuss his latest work on Stalinism. In this interview, Greene describes who Stalin was, what his role in the Bolshevik movement was and how he came to power. Greene then provides a compelling analysis of different paradigms of how Stalinism has been conceptualized by intellectuals from Arthur Koestler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, to heads of states such as Winston Churchill and writers such as George Orwell. Doug Greene is a Marxist historian based in the Boston area. Our last interview with Greene was about his book on Michael Harrington, A Failure of Vision, which is a biography of Harrington, the liberal-socialist founder of the DSA. We conclude our conversation with a discussion about Domenico Losurdo’s book on Stalin and its shortcomings. We also discuss the specter of Stalinism on today's left and whether there is a compelling sort of psychological account as to what draws people to Stalinism to this day. Order Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn.
The Rise and Fall of Marxist Perspectives feat. Gabriel Raeburn
The Politics of Music (feat. Scribe Wolf)
Gaza Now: A Palestinian Perspective (feat. Mohammed Sulaiman)
Politically Red: What Does it Mean to Read as a Marxist? (feat. Sara Nadal-Melsió & Eduardo Cadava)
Marxism and the Absence of Socialism in America: A Conversation with Carlos Garrido
The Vicissitudes of Identity Politics On the Left (feat. Sudip Bhattacharya)
Drugs in America: From Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge feat. Ben Fong
Lacan on Religion and Theology feat. Mark Gerard Murphy
Is Liberal Socialism a Contradiction? (feat. Matt McManus)
Marxism and the Radical Enlightenment: A Debate feat. Max Tomba and Landon Frim
Sartre’s Marxist Turn? A Discussion on the Critique of Dialectical Reason feat. Terry Pinkard
Palestine and the Actuality of Struggle: A Forum with BICAR
The War On Gaza, Hamas and Political Islam feat. Mohammed Sulaiman
Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the Later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson
Palestine: Understanding the War on Gaza feat. Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader
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Daniel Bensaïd and the Renewal of Marxism feat. Darren Roso
In Defense of Žižek? A Discussion with Matthew Flisfeder
On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part II)
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