America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How the Left Is Rediscovering Marxism as the Ultimate Virtue Signal

America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How the Left is Rediscovering Marxism as the Ultimate Virtue Signal

Below is my column in The Hill on the rise of American armchair revolutionaries, particularly among young, affluent college graduates. It is part of the “radical chic” fostered from higher education to Hollywood for citizens who have no memory of the failures of socialism and communism in the 20th Century. Here is the column: During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” Although the origin o…

America's Armchair Revolutionaries: How The Left Is Rediscovering Marxism As The Ultimate Virtue Signal

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What Kind of Party Are the Revolutionary Communists of America Building? - Revolutionary Communists of America

What kind of party are we building? At first glance, this question is straightforward. We’re building a revolutionary party for the overthrow of capitalism. As Leninists, we’re specifically building a cadre party along the lines of the Bolsheviks, in order to eventually become a mass party and provide revolutionary leadership for the working class. But this is merely the starting point of an explanation. To the average person, terms like cadre, …

America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How The Left Is Rediscovering Marxism As The Ultimate Virtue Signal – altnews.org

Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” Although the

America's Armchair Revolutionaries: How The Left Is Rediscovering Marxism As The Ultimate Virtue Signal - Nemos News Network

Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.” Although the origin of the quote has been challenged (and attributed to both Lenin and Stalin), it captured many of the adherents of communism after World War II. From higher education to Hollywood, dilettantes on the left […]

History of the RCP: Who was Ted Grant? - The Communist

Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Messenger Email Print Ted Grant played a key role in the development of genuine Marxism in the post-war period, especially in Britain. Ted was born in South Africa in 1913. In his youth, he was inspired by events in Russia and by the age of fifteen was a convinced Marxist, later becoming active in a small Trotskyist group based around Johannesburg. In the autumn of 1934, Ted left South Africa for ‘wider horizons’…