Dauvé does it again

Gilles Dauvé, otherwise known by his pen name Jean Barrot, has a long history of writing lucid, insightful texts that grapple with the very deepest questions the movement towards communism has to confront. [...]

The good war? The greatest generation? Myths of World War II

In a previous post I mentioned how the peculiar bourgeois logic of anti-fascism leads leftists to a position of support for the Allied imperialist camp during the Second World War (and for all other capitalist parties, states and movements who oppose “fascism”). In that post I discussed briefly the left’s uncritical support for the [...]

Mike Davis and Stalin

A few years ago the American leftist Mike Davis wrote an opinion piece called “Remembering Bill and Ivan,” which implored American readers, then celebrating the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, to remember the pivotal role played by the USSR in ending the Second World War. As a matter of military history, it [...]