Student protests at universities across the U.S. are ostensibly related to the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 and Israel’s military response. But there’s something else that’s being blamed for the uprisings: ...

Vance Boelter, arrested June 15 in connection with the shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, was targeting elected Democratic officials, authorities said June 16.

When a Rhode Island local school district allegedly considered suing one woman for the high crime of asking for information about school curricula, many were shocked, and rightfully so. To be sued for ...

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More than one hundred years after the socialist movement split into warring Marxist and anarchist factions, there are signs, at least on a small scale, that people calling themselves anarchists and ...

According to Richard Pipes, one of America’s leading authorities on totalitarianism, a totalitarian state “aims at obliterating all distinctions between itself and the citizenry (society) by ...

Historical materialism is an essential feature not only of the Marxism of the traditional workers movement but also of Marxist-Leninist ideas. A critique of historical materialism explains some of the ...