Archive - Alex’s Substack

Modern Europe 1789-2019

Jun 20 •

April 2025

Take a Course With Me!

My new initiative to offer courses on everything from political economy to Capital.

Apr 9 •

January 2025

Do We Really Need Lenin Today?

On Personality Cults and Idolizing the Past

Jan 14 •

18:48

December 2024

Return of the Meek

Every year on Christmas night I watch my favorite holiday special, The Twilight Zone’s 1959 “Night of the Meek.”

Dec 24, 2024 •

November 2024

Explain Away, Supparay!

Irony and Humor in Advanced Capitalism

Nov 26, 2024 •

16:44

How Porn Helped Trump Win

Or the Crisis of Masculinity in the American Left

Nov 15, 2024 •

Revolutionary Defeatism

The Fate of American Imperialism on the Eve of the Presidential Election

Nov 4, 2024 •

September 2024

Communist Internationalism

And its Applicability Today

Sep 29, 2024 •

Allow me to indulge this week in some frivolous analogy written at the last minute.

Sep 15, 2024 •

August 2024

Marxism, Liberalism, and “The Women’s Question” A Historical View and Distinction of Marxist Feminism (Radical feminism, queer feminism, and Marxist…

Aug 31, 2024 •

and

Milena Steinmetzer

Part I: Marxism, Liberalism, and “The Women’s Question”

A Historical View and Distinction of Marxist Feminism

Aug 15, 2024 •

and

Milena Steinmetzer

July 2024

What About Tomorrow? Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot

I published this article summarizing my book for the Jordan Center a few years ago. I reproduce it here for you to read and invite you to buy a copy of…

Jul 30, 2024 •

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