AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

This space is dedicated to the proposition that we need to know the history of the struggles on the left and of earlier progressive movements here and world-wide. If we can learn from the mistakes made in the past (as well as what went right) we can move forward in the future to create a more just and equitable society. We will be reviewing books, CDs, and movies we believe everyone needs to read, hear and look at as well as making commentary from time to time. Greg Green, site manager

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

The Latest From The British Leftist Blog-Histomat: Adventures in Historical Materialism

Click below to link to the Histomat:Adventures in Historical Materialism blog

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/

Markin comment:

While from the tenor of the articles, leftist authors featured, and other items it is not clear to me that this blog is faithful to any sense of historical materialism that Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky would recognize I am always more than willing to "steal" material from the site. Or investigate leads provided there for material of interest to the radical public-whatever that seemingly dwindling public may be these days.

Additional Markin comment:

I place some material in this space which may be of interest to the radical public that I do not necessarily agree with or support. Off hand, as I have mentioned before, I think it would be easier, infinitely easier, to fight for the socialist revolution straight up than some of the “remedies” provided by the commentators in these entries. But part of that struggle for the socialist revolution is to sort out the “real” stuff from the fluff as we struggle for that more just world that animates our efforts.

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Monday, August 04, 2014

Megan Trudell on the real legacy of WWI

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2014/08/megan-trudell-on-real-legacy-of-wwi.html

Understanding WWI - How revolutions ended the war

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2014/08/understanding-ww1-course-how.html

Understanding WWI - Why did the world go to war?

Empire and revolution: A socialist history of the First World War - Dave...

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2014/08/empire-and-revolution-socialist-history.html

No More War

http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2014/08/no-more-war.html

‘War is organised murder and nothing else....politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder’
Harry Patch, last surviving British soldier from the First World War (who passed away in 2009, aged 111)