Real socialism vs. today’s Radical Left

On the need for encounter with the revolutions and leaders of the Third World

      In the late 1960s and early 1970s, we radical youth in the USA, having recently seen through the lies that we were told about American democracy and the world, protested the war in Vietnam and celebrated the emergence of anti-colonial movements in the world.  In the decades since, we utterly failed to forge a sustainable people’s movement that could take the nation toward foreign policies of support for the just claims of the colonized.  As a result of our failure, U.S. public discourse knows nothing of the world of the colonized and of the real socialism emerging in its breast.

Real socialism vs. today’s Radical Left on issues of gender and social equality

     Real socialism today has emerged in China and in vanguard nations of the Third World.  Its conceptions have been forged by exceptional leaders in the context of revolutionary practice.  It is a synthesis of the concepts of the bourgeois revolutions of Western Europe of the late eighteenth century; the worker-peasant revolu…