Lev OrenbergBetween Moses and Marx: Faith and Materialism as a Modern Socialist JewIn Marxist circles, to speak of faith is to fall into the trap of idealism, and to speak of teleology is to fall into economism or to…Dec 20, 2022Dec 20, 2022
Lev OrenbergIrish Blight, English Famine: Irish Potato Famine as a Byproduct of English Colonial PolicyIt was only very recently that Ireland was able to recover the population it had before the famine. Still nearly one hundred and seventy…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
Lev OrenbergTheory and Practice of LeninismIn my previous paper, I covered Lenin’s State and Revolution and its status as a really revolutionary document written by a vanguard…Jan 7, 20221Jan 7, 20221
Lev OrenbergThe Shining Path: Ultraleftism and Commandism in Peruvian Revolutionary PoliticsThe Shining Path began as a fringe Maoist sect but, through the charismatic leadership of its Chairman, Abimael “Gonzalo” Guzman, its…May 8, 20211May 8, 20211
Lev OrenbergBefore the Final Analysis: Marxist Materialism vs. Bakuninist IdealismSpending enough time in enough multi-tendency left-wing spaces, one is almost guaranteed to hear the phrase, “In the final analysis, we…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Lev OrenbergFrom Paris with Revolution: Contrasting views of the Paris Commune from Kautsky, Lenin and TrotskyIn the midst of the Franco-Prussian war in which the French were defeated on the battlefield by the Prussian military machine, their…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Lev OrenbergAnti-Italianx Racism on Twitter and why you should care about it(By: @Gravelist)Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020