John Hutnyk’s ‘Marx in Calcutta’

John Hutynk has written a defence of Marx’s later views on India. His multi-faceted article on the subject was published … More

Why Has There Been No Communist Comeback in Eastern Europe?

The return of the market system to Eastern Europe can be seen as largely a failure, even in its own … More

My new article has been published in the Journal of Labor and Society: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/wusa.12467 Based on important new figures from … More

The Left is making a historic error by endorsing the line that China is an imperialist power. Leftists of all … More

Corbyn’s defeat in the UK general election illustrates the point made by Marx, Lenin and Stalin that no country that … More

This blog is about history, but history is little use unless we can apply it to the present. What do … More

In the past, the Soviet Union of Stalin’s time and indeed, the China of the Mao era were seen as … More

New research in China seems to have finally demolished the myth that tens of millions died due to the actions … More

My article defending the record of Soviet socialist economic planning was published by the online Marxist journal Cultural Logic: The … More

Click for full article: Mao Did Not Want Half of China to Starve A few years ago an important historical … More