January 29, 2021 – The Scholar's Stage

The 2021 Scholar’s Stage Readers Poll!

29 January, 2021Site Announcements

It is a new year and that means a new reader’s poll. Every year I put one of these together to get a sense for who my readers are and what they most value in The Scholar’s Stage. This is a special poll because in a few weeks a redesigned Scholar’s Stage will be launched, […]

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Bootstrapping Marx With the Peasant Masses

29 January, 2021Books and Literature, Political Theory, Russia, The Middle Kingdom

One of the great ironies of 20th century history: Marxist revolutionaries could only ever seize power in the wrong countries. Marx imagined a revolution of industrial proletariat; he expected that this proletariat would at first achieve its aims in highly industrialized nations like England and Germany. His theory of socialism presupposed that a successful transition […]

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The 2021 Scholar’s Stage Readers Poll!

Bootstrapping Marx With the Peasant Masses

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