We are living in the Italian Marxist thinker’s interregnum By Slavoj Žižek Let me begin by admitting my role in the global spread of Antonio Gramsci’s remark from his Prison Notebooks: “The crisis ...

The USSR under Stalin murdered almost all the known steadfast Marxists in the country. Those whom Stalin called "Trotskyites", the activists who stayed loyal to the working-class and democratic aims ...

It has probably always been difficult for younger socialists to understand how events just a few decades beforehand have shaped the outlook of the middle-aged comrades that lived through them. But ...

We counted 25 items in Ladd Library’s Lost and Found cubby, located just inside the front door. But when we opened up a packed pencil case, out poured 37 pens, mechanical pencils, highlighters, and ...

George Orwell, one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century, is widely recognized for his searing critiques of totalitarian regimes in his novels Animal Farm and 1984. Orwell’s ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.

The rhetorical question ‘I wonder who wrote four million denunciations?’ posed by exiled writer Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990) about Stalinist repression sounds frighteningly relevant in today’s Russia.