Category: History

Moissaye Olgin was a chronicler of Russian revolutionary literature, introducing U.S. audiences to many novelists and poets. Olgin knew the work of Maxim Gorky as well as anyone, writing a number of works on the great Russian writer. Here he pens an introduction to Gorky on the 40th anniversary of his literary career for the New Masses. ‘The Work of Maxim Gorky’ by Moissaye J. Olgin from New Masses. Vol. 8 No. 4. November, 1932. He started his literary work when the proletariat of Russia was just beginning to stir;…

A discussion about Common or Communal land, The Paris Commune, and the Marxist Dictatorahip of the Proletariat. “The principles of the Commune are eternal and indestructible; they will present themselves again and again until the working class is liberated.” -Karl Marx

Mondli Makhanya Modern South African history has seen its fair share of evil men and women, many of them linked in one way or another with the apartheid system and the security apparatus that upheld it. There were people such as DF Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd, the architects and foundation-layers of the apartheid system. In later years, there were the likes of BJ Vorster and PW Botha, who took apartheid to another level and designed dark security that formed the shield for apartheid. There were hard men such as Louis…