The Red Flag: A History of Communism - David Priestland
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Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists controlled more than a third of the Earth’s surface. But perhaps more astonishing than its rapid rise and extraordinary reach was Communism’s sudden, devastating collapse in November of 1989.
In The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across 200 years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in 19th-century Germany to its rise to dominance (and subsequent fall) in the 20th century.
Beginning with the first modern Communists in the age of Robespierre, Priestland examines the motives of thinkers and leaders including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Che Guevara, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Gorbachev, and many others. He also asks what it was about Communism that inspired its rank and file—whether the militants of 1920s Russia, the guerrilla fighters of China, or the students of Ethiopia—and explores the experience of what it meant to live under Communism for its millions of subjects. He shows how Communism, in all its varieties, appealed to different societies for different reasons, in some as a response to inequalities and in others more out of a desire to catch up with the West. But paradoxically, while destroying one web of inequality, Communist leaders were simultaneously weaving another. It was this dynamic, together with widespread economic failure and an escalating loss of faith in the system, that ultimately destroyed Soviet Communism itself.
At a time when global capitalism is in crisis and powerful new political forces have arisen to confront Western democracy, The Red Flag is essential listening if we are to apply the lessons of the past to navigating the future.
Length: 28 hrs and 50 mins
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This post has 4 comments
May 20th, 2016
Wow… just… wow.
Another far left professor trying to white wash the genocidal history of Communism.
May 20th, 2016
Crisis of global capitalism!? Talk about the stifling communist nostalgia, which seems to grip the likes of the “Oxford professor” Mr. Priestland and befog the rest of us.
May 25th, 2016
Thanks! Nice to find a history of communism that hasn’t been written by lip-frothing wingnuts.
July 5th, 2016
Whoa there boys, let’s not get all riled up, a little competition is a good thing!
What chance do those poor commie b*stards stand against our long, long history of greed, conquest and exploitation? Let’s not be small and deny them their meager victories.
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