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Vladimir Lenin

“Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because… it has… assimilated and refashioned everything of value in the more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture.” (1920)

- Vladimir Lenin
Colin Chambers: Cultures of Communism

Colin Chambers: Cultures of Communism

Posted on Dec 5, 2016 in Uncategorized

Happy December! Tomorrow afternoon I’m meeting up with Helen Lindsay in Greenwich market. Helen is the daughter of the leftist poet and translator Jack Lindsay (1900-1990). One of the things we’ll be talking about is the invasive and ideologically motivated surveillance she feels her father was subject to over decades for his political beliefs and cultural activities […]

Conversations on Communism

Conversations on Communism

Posted on Nov 21, 2016 in Uncategorized

This winter I have teamed up with Dr. Elinor Taylor who teaches English Literature at the University of Westminster to create a podcast series exploring British communism. Elinor has submitted a PhD thesis and written a book on the Popular Front Novel in Britain (forthcoming), so she knows a lot more about the field than […]