Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn feat. Doug Greene
Emancipations Podcast
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The Importance of Socialism in Western Statesmanship
In France in the 30s, there was an increasing class struggle. And a lot of French reactionaries saw the local Communist Party and obviously the Soviet Union as this subversive enemy. So it makes total sense why socialism in one country would be a better adversary, possibly even ally than Trotskyist insistence on permanent revolution. In the U.S., you see people like Whitaker Chambers who's one of the great founders of modern conservatism. He sees communism as that man, like the religion of man against God," he says.
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