Communist – Marxism Explained

American conservatives contemplating ‘soft’ fascism

Some American conservatives seem to be toying with the ‘soft’ fascism of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar

Bashar Assad clung to power in Syria after the Arab Spring with help from Russia and from western useful idiots on social media

Trans Marxism has built on Social Reproduction Theory arguing it explains transgender oppression under capitalism

Queer Theory has exercised a huge influence on the discourse around sexuality but does it have anything in common with Marxism?

Identity politics has a problem with intersectionality and encourages accusations of erasure by different groups

Identity politics led to the attack on transgender rights by Second Wave feminists but how did this happen?

Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism

How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism

Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last

Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards