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About Paul Le Blanc

Paul Le Blanc is professor of history at La Roche University and the author of many titles, including A Short History of the US Working Class; From Marx to Gramsci; and October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy.  He is on the editorial committee for the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, co-editing volume 2 containing her major economic writings and volume 5 containing some of her major political writings.
  • Lenin 150

    Lenin150 (Samizdat): A Lenin birthday book

    Originally published: LINKs (International Journal of Socialist Renewal) on September 30, 2020 (more by LINKs (International Journal of Socialist Renewal))  |

    2020 is the birthday year of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, whom most of us know as Lenin. If still alive, he would be 150 years old.

  • Vladimir Lenin 150

    Vladimir Lenin 150

    Originally published: Rebel News on April 22, 2020 (more by Rebel News)  |

    To marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin we’re sharing the latest installment of Paul LeBlanc’s series Revolutionaries Reviewed, on Vladimir Lenin – a central leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew tsarist rule and attempted to bring about a new socialist society.

  • Joe Biden

    United States: An ‘all hands on deck’ moment–Sixty six old new leftists urge support for Joe Biden

    Originally published: New Politics on April 18, 2020 (more by New Politics)  |

    SDS, along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), had been in the vanguard of the new left in the 1960s, and some of these oldsters now want to challenge a position taken by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), currently the foremost organization on the left today. They tell us “this is an all hands on deck moment,” and that supporting Joe Biden in order to defeat Donald Trump “is our high moral and political responsibility.”

  • U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and US Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts

    Today’s Struggle for a Green New Deal: Lessons from the Freedom Budget of the 1960s

    Paul Le Blanc

    The potential mass appeal of the Freedom Budget failed to materialize in part because “realistic” compromises were made by its supporters: partisans of the Green New Deal should not make the same mistake.

  • Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg’s revolutionary socialism

    Originally published: Socialist Workers on January 15, 2019 (more by Socialist Workers)  |

    Luxemburg was born in 1871, in a Poland divided under German and Russian domination, and she played a role in the working-class socialist movement of each country.

  • Antonio Gramsci and the Modern Prince

    Antonio Gramsci and the Modern Prince

    Originally published: LINKs (International Journal of Socialist Renewal) on December 1, 2018 (more by LINKs (International Journal of Socialist Renewal))  |

    In this period of global crises and ferment, radical and revolutionary activists are reaching for modes of organization and political practice that can help advance their struggle for human liberation. For growing numbers, the political and organizational perspectives of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin are becoming a pole of attraction–providing an increasingly desired coherence and revolutionary edge.

  • CLR James

    The Marxism of C.L.R. James

    Originally published: International Viewpoint on October 8, 2017 (more by International Viewpoint)  |

    Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) has begun to enjoy a revival among U.S. and European intellectuals which promises to spread his influence more widely in the present and future than was the case at any time during his life. He is best known for his magnificent history of the Haitian revolution, entitled Black Jacobins (first published in 1938 and reprinted often since then), but a growing number of people are becoming increasingly familiar with many other facets of his work.

  • Paul Le Blanc

    The radicalization process yesterday, today, and tomorrow

    Paul Le Blanc

    On July 21st Paul Le Blanc sat down at his Pittsburgh home with Vaios Triantafyllou for an interview on issues related to a radicalization process that he sees unfolding in the United States today, and possible revolutionary strategies for the future. Le Blanc is uniquely qualified to address these themes, with more than half a […]

  • Jobs and Freedom: The March on Washington and the Freedom Budget

    Paul Le Blanc

    Many prominent civil rights figures were socialists — believing there was a link between racial justice and economic justice.  As socialists they wanted decent jobs for all, an end to poverty, decent housing for all, decent education for all, human rights for all, rule by the people (democracy) over our political and economic life. Such […]

  • The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg

    Paul Le Blanc

    “Rosa Luxemburg, imprisoned in the Breslau penitentiary, is able to continue working on her herbarium. Her secretary Mathilde Jacob, the only one able to visit her in prison, brings along the plants. ‘I can botanize once again, this is my favourite occupation and best way to relax. Since May 1913 I have pasted in about […]

  • Books about Yesterday’s Activism for Activists of Tomorrow

    Paul Le Blanc

    Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds. “Takin’ It to the Streets”: A Sixties Reader, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 533 pages. Max Elbaum. Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. London: Verso, 2002. 370 pages, including index. Barry Sheppard. The Party, A Political Memoir, The Socialist Workers […]

Also By Paul Le in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Revolutionary Road, Partial Victory September 01, 2013
  • Know Thine Enemy May 01, 2010
  • The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom January 01, 2003

Books By Paul Le

  • A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today July 31, 2009

Monthly Review Essays

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

Lost & Found

  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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