socialism: democratic party style

The theory and practice of socialism fared poorly after the Soviet Union’s demise and “Communist” China’s turn onto “the capitalist road.” ... From that point on, “social democracy” mainly designated the non- and anti-Communist socialists of the reconstituted Second..

the lessons of stonewall - 50 years on

As a Communist Party member and a gay man, he was clearly confused by Stalin’s reversal of all the progress made in the October Revolution. ... Gay men and lesbians were considered to be security risks, and most likely communist sympathisers. ..

what’s wrong with queer history?

Likewise, as I have written for Boston Review, activists in East Germany began organizing in the 1970s, hoping to convince the communist dictatorship to take their desires and needs as gay men and lesbians seriously. ..

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