Social Control and Oppression in Cuba and Venezuela
In 1999, when I was 14 years old, I visited Cuba for two weeks with my mother. In my country, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez had just been elected president for the…
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The Cuban Uprising
In The Bridge at Andau, a brilliant 1957 book that should be more widely read today, James Michener documents the exodus of Hungarians into Austria after their 1956 insurrection against Russian…
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Chernobyl and the Soviet State
When reactor number four of the Chernobyl power plant overheated and exploded in the spring of 1986, few understood the environmental and political fallout that would result. Though many in…
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Book Review. Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto. (Verso Books, 2019) Aaron Bastani, co-founder and public face of Novara Media, and public advocate for the Corbyn project, is…
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Karl Marx: Man of Yesterday or of Tomorrow?
I was born a year before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which signified the end of the Cold War and our entry into the end of history. Capitalism was…
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Iconoclasm and the Erasing of History
At 1:32am on the morning of 8 March 1966, a loud explosion was heard in the center of Dublin. When dawn came, visitors to O’Connell Street were greeted by the…
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Listen to Immigrants Who Have Lived Under Socialism
Proud self-described socialist Bernie Sanders is running for president again and has already raised over $10 million for his campaign. Rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also a proud self-described socialist,…
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A Dirty Word: Why Capitalism’s Bad Reputation Is Largely Undeserved
Despite its undeniable importance as a mechanism for human progress and flourishing, capitalism is widely associated with mass poverty, social inequality and a host of other negative externalities. Capitalist is…
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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
Growing up as a child I didn’t know much about Communism except that it was bad. I knew that it was atheistic from what I had heard at the mosque……
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