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A History of Revolution

The LRB Podcast

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Antisemitism and Revolutionary Modernism

Anti-colonial revolutionaries from what today is called the Global South also affected another important shift in the revolutionary imagination that you describe. They were unable to understand that antisemitism was a central feature of reactionary modernism. And they couldn't really see how it could be weaponized as a modern ideology or Nazism. You know, revolution is also striking for being perhaps the least Eurocentric of your books.

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