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A History of Revolution

The LRB Podcast

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Revolution as a Global Process

Alexandra Colonty was an advocate of red love and imagined this radical recasting of familial and erotic relations. But her vision of liberation ended up losing out to a puritanical strain and Soviet communism. So this is exactly the illustration of this divide I mentioned between revolution as an emancipatory moment and revolution as the building of a new political regime.

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