Author: John Marot
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Bolshevism Mystified
In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.
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Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.
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Eric Blanc, Karl Kautsky, and the democratic road to socialism
John Marot reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy.