Category: Soviet Union
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Response to a Shoddy Defense of Social Imperialism
By Comrade Harold, with contributions from Comrade Saoirse Recently, a member of one of the study circles in which we participate penned a piece entitled Maoists, Dogmatism, and the Ultra-Left: When United States’ Interests and Communist Rhetoric Align, in which they apologize for social-imperialism, deny capitalist restoration in China, defend the coupist, capitalist-roader, and traitor…
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Some Remarks on the National Question in Caucasia
By Comrade Harold A few weeks ago, The Masses published a short article regarding the Azerbaijani invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of the majority Armenian population there, which had established the de facto, but unrecognized, state of Artsakh which persisted for a little over thirty years. We described the events of September…
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The Bolshevik Revolution 106 Years Later: Lessons for Our Movement Today
By Chairwoman Elaine On this day in 1917, the first socialist state in history was established in Russia in what is known as the October Revolution.1 This revolutionary state, the Soviet Union, rapidly developed itself in order to radically transform the lives of millions of people. Housing, employment, healthcare, and childcare became basic rights afforded to…