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Anti-Stalin Falsehoods from a “Socialist” Writer – Refudint Alex Skopi’s Article “Stalin Will Never Be Redeemable”

Grover Furr April – May 2023 In the January – February 2023 issue of Currant Affairs there appears an article titled “Stalin Will Never Be Redeemable”. Its subtitle reads: Stalin was socialism’s worst enemy. History is easily forgotten, so nostalgia for the “Man of Steel” needs to be guarded against. A person who knows of my long interest

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Restoring U.S. hegemony isn’t possible. Pro-NATO propaganda can now only impede class struggle in the core.

What’s the point of imperialist war when it can no longer do what it was supposed to do? That being let capital continue expanding into new markets. With the terminal decline of U.S. hegemony, this growth has become impossible to maintain. The decisive factor in this coming of a limitation on imperialism’s extractive range has

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To be “respectable” in the online left is to be imperialism-compatible. Being a serious Marxist requires breaking from it.

There’s a difference between what’s best for gaining popularity within online “left” spaces, and what’s best for advancing the revolutionary struggle. It’s not hard to notice this problem, the members of the left-wing video essay community “Breadtube” have repeatedly observed how there’s an issue with making politics into a fandom. Yet it’s not like merely

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A First Farewell, and Many Happy Returns: An Interview with Peggy Seeger

by G. L. Worker As part of our inaugural issue, New Masses set out to write stories about revolutionary folk singers and songwriters, what they did, and what they can teach us. We had the pleasure of sitting down with music legend and long-time activist Peggy Seeger to discuss her newest album, First Farewell, as

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