What Is Democracy?
The victorious allies met in Potsdam, Germany in July 1945 to discuss the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe after V-E day. Stalin was the sole remaining…
Polish Brand of Communism
In February 1977 Tomasz Strzyżewski, censor no C-36 of the Kraków Main Office for Control of Press, Publications and Public Performances, boarded the ferry to Sweden at Świnoujście, Poland, for…
The Future De-Trumpization of the US
Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death by executing Beria and winning the power struggle with Stalin's heir apparent, Malenkov. Politically…
Random Learnings #39
Karl Marx popularized - but did not create - the slogan From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs that is most often associated with communism.…
Random Learnings #23
From the review of the book Socialism vs Capitalism by Boris L. Brasol in the New York Times, Sunday, November 21, 1920: ...Mr. Brasol wrote under fear that Bolshevism was…