American conservatives contemplating ‘soft’ fascism
Some American conservatives seem to be toying with the ‘soft’ fascism of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar
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Bashar Assad and his useful idiots
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Trans Marxism and Social Reproduction Theory
Trans Marxism has built on Social Reproduction Theory arguing it explains transgender oppression under capitalism
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Queer Theory and Marxism
Queer Theory has exercised a huge influence on the discourse around sexuality but does it have anything in common with Marxism?
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The problem of identity politics
Identity politics has a problem with intersectionality and encourages accusations of erasure by different groups
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Feminism, identity politics and trans activism
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Karl Marx meets Transgender Rights
Marxism claims to offer a way forward to transgender people so what is different from Queer Theory and identity politics?
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Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
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How does Marxism explain human evolution?
Marxism has its own account for how humans evolved so how does it match up to Darwin’s theory of evolution and are they compatible?
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Stalinism – how the USSR became a bureaucratic nightmare
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
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Karl Marx meets Transgender Rights
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The Portuguese Revolution of 1974
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