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Blinken factchecked: X users give U.S. Secretary of State history lesson
In a post on X, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accuses Russia of manipulating history by actually twisting facts himself.
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Atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary to end WWII. U.S. gov’t documents admit it
U.S. government documents admit the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington’s Cold War on the Soviet Union.
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End of Cold War Illusions
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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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
The worst crime the USSR committed, the one for which it will never be forgiven, was to have been a shared hope for a more just, more dignified and more humane society.
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You should thank this Russian Naval Officer that you and your loved ones are alive today
Let’s hope there are more Vasily Arkhipovs out there today—we need them now more than ever.
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Ukrainian Nationalists have long history of anti-semitism which the Soviet Union tried to combat
While Ivy League professors equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, the Soviets fought the Nazis and ended violent anti-Jewish pogroms—which now threaten to return.
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Gorbachev and his legacy must be viewed in context
When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.
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Cheng Enfu: Economic development in socialist countries–great achievements and future prospects
In the following, I will address a few potentially controversial points on the subject of economic development in China and the Soviet Union, as two representative examples of socialist countries, in response to the misconceptions prevailing in the world. – Cheng Enfu
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Ukraine as the ‘Geopolitical Pivot’: The U.S. Grand Strategy 1991-2022
As we write these notes at the beginning of March 2022, the eight-year limited civil war in Ukraine has turned into a full-scale war. This represents a turning point in the New Cold War and a great human tragedy. By threatening global nuclear holocaust, these events are also now endangering the entire world. To understand the origins of the New Cold War and the onset of the current Russian entry into the Ukrainian civil war, it is necessary to go back to decisions associated with the creation of the New World Order made in Washington when the previous Cold War ended in 1991.
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The U.S. is preparing war with China and Russia at the same time
In the strategic vision of the U.S., Russia should be disarmed to become part of Europe as a “sidekick” and a bridgehead to contain China, the “more dangerous enemy” as Kissinger described it.
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Kim Philby remembered: A traitor to his class
Kim Philby, born on January 1st, 1912, is one of the best known double agents of the Cold War era.
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Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2
Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, and Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the ravages of colonialism and under-development.
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Central Asia’s neoliberal tragedy
Resilience cannot be restored without public spending, but the rentier business plan is to minimize taxes by shrinking the government, especially by privatizing its public utilities and other functions to create opportunities for charging monopoly rents, and to oppose taxation of economic rent.
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U.S. defeat in Afghanistan—A contrast with the Soviet experience
The U.S. has been defeated today in Afghanistan not by a super power with an advanced military, but by a rag-tag army of fanatical locals who perfected and consolidated their fanaticism under U.S., Saudi and Pakistani tutelage in the 1980s to fight the Soviets.
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Review of Keti Chukhrov – ‘Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism’
As the title reveals, Chukhrov is particularly interested in two aspects of Soviet socialism: desire and boredom. For a libidinally conditioned capitalist subject, socialism as a non-libidinal economy appears boring and unsexy.
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Lefebvre and Althusser: Reinterpreting Marxist Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Since the October Revolution, Marxism has experienced almost as many crises as capitalism itself. Meltdowns of capitalism usually come as little surprise to savvy Marxist theorists but economic crises are one thing; economic crisis plus a global pandemic is something else again, beyond an everyday capitalist norm, more akin to the political-economy of wartime. Pandemic, like war, threatens not only life and limb, but also solidarity and tender acts of human togetherness.
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U.S. defeat in Afghanistan—A contrast with the Soviet experience
As`ad AbuKhalil says Western media never regarded the U.S. involvement for what it really was.
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A Cold War re-education in 8 minutes
Remarks at the Cold War Truth Commission
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‘Ecological Leninism’: On waging war against the common cause of Corona and the climate crisis
A ferocious polemic by Andreas Malm, written as the worldwide lockdown took hold, summons the imagery of Soviet war communism to impress the urgency of our predicament.
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New Article Published: Does socialism really lead to economic failure? The USSR and COMECON Eastern Europe before 1989
Based on important new figures from the Maddison Project Database, it refutes the claim that the countries of Eastern Europe were economic failures when they were still ruled by (ostensibly) communist regimes.