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A Democratic Socialist's Almanac

A Democratic Socialist's Almanac

By: Lelyn R. Masters
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 A Democratic Socialist’s Almanac is a podcast exploring all things relevant to Socialism today, from the latest scholarship regarding the socialist tradition to socialist reflections on our current moment and where to go from here. Below is a partial prospectus with a subject by subject bibliography. Written by Lelyn R. Masters with a Memphis Music Soundtrack by Harry Koniditsiotis Marx’s Epicurianism Fusaro, Diego. Marx, Epicurus, and the Origins of Historical Materialism. Permanent Press, 2017. The French and Haitian Revolutions Davidson, Ian. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny. Profile Books, 2016. Furet, François, and Karl Marx. Marx and the French Revolution. University of Chicago Press, 1988. Israel, Jonathan. Revolutionary ideas: an intellectual history of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton University Press, 2015. James, Cyril Lionel Robert. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Penguin UK, 2001. Scott, Julius S. The common wind: Afro-American currents in the age of the Haitian Revolution. Verso Books, 2018. Not Marx’s Capital Anderson, Kevin B. Marx at the margins: on nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies. University of Chicago Press, 2016. Israel, Jonathan I. The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830. Oxford University Press, 2019. Marik, Soma. Revolutionary Democracy: Emancipation in Classical Marxism. Haymarket Books, 2018. Rosenberg, Arthur. Democracy and socialism: a contribution to the political history of the past 150 years. Beacon Press, 1939. Eternal Life, Abolition and Class Brooks, Kinitra D. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror. Rutgers University Press, 2018. Carruthers, Charlene. Unapologetic: A Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements. Beacon Press, 2018. Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction In America: An Essay Toward A History Of The Part Which Black Folk Played In The Attempt To Reconstruct Democracy In America, 1860-1880. New York: Russell & Russell [1966, c1935. Print. Foner, Eric. The second founding: How the civil war and reconstruction remade the constitution. WW Norton & Company, 2019. Nadler, Steven. "Spinoza's' Ethics': An Introduction." (2006). World War I, Original Sin and Karl Kautsky Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Harvard University Press, 2006. Clark, Christopher. The sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914. Penguin UK, 2012. Donald, Moira. Marxism and Revolution: Karl Kautsky and the Russian Marxists, 1900-1924. Yale University Press, 1993. McMeekin, Sean. The Russian Origins of the First World War. Harvard University Press, 2011. Spinoza, Baruch. Spinoza: Complete Works. Hackett Publishing, 2002. Nero, Oreste, Stalin, Trotsky Deutsher, J. "The prophet armed." (1979). Deutscher, Isaac. The prophet unarmed: Trotsky, 1921-1929. Verso, 2003. Sgambato-Ledoux, Isabelle. Oreste et Néron. Spinoza, Freud et le mal. Classiques Garnier, 2017. Trotsky, Leon. History of the Russian revolution. Haymarket Books, 2008. Broué, Pierre. Communistes contre Staline. Fayard, 2003. The Spanish Civil War Reconsidered Beevor, Anthony. "The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 (London, 2006), 106–7 and 269–70 and Albertí." La Iglesia en llamas: 277-86. Graham, Helen. The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2002. McKay, Claude. Amiable with Big Teeth. Penguin, 2017. Morrow, Felix. Revolution & Counter Revolution in Spain. Pathfinder Press, 1974. Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia/Down and Out in Paris and London. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. A Guide to High Maoism Isaacs, Harold Robert. The tragedy of the Chinese revolution. Haymarket Books, 2010. Lovell, Julia. Maoism: A Global History. Random House, 2019. A History of the Russian Revolution as if Ukraine Mattered Raleigh, Donald J. Provincial landscapes: local dimensions of Soviet power, 1917-1953. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. Serge, Victor. Midnight in the Century. New York Review of Books, 2014. Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Random House, 2011. Snyder, Timothy, and Tony Judt. Thinking the twentieth century. Random House, 2013. From the Black Panther Party to Ta Nehisi-Coates, a Vanguard in our time Bloom, Joshua, Waldo E. Martin Jr, and Waldo E. Martin. Black against empire: The history and politics of the Black Panther Party. Univ of California Press, 2016. Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me. Text publishing, 2015.APA Johnson, Cedric. Revolutionaries to race leaders: Black power and the making of African American politics. U of Minnesota Press, 2007. McWhorter, Ladelle. Racism and sexual oppression in Anglo-America: A genealogy. Indiana University Press, 2009. Perry, Ravi K. Black mayors, white majorities: The balancing act of racial politics. U of Nebraska Press, 2013. Rothstein...© 2022 A Democratic Socialist's Almanac Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences World
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  • ADSA Ukraine Special 8: Trump

    ADSA Ukraine Special 8: Trump
    Apr 1 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On Trump's damage to democracy: https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/historian-of-fascism-timothy-snyder-warns-of-trump-s-damage-to-democracy-99472453603 More on 2016 electoral interference (2019): https://workingclassfightbackmemorandum.tumblr.com/post/185319025134/in-2020-we-can-bury-the-republic Shimer, David. Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference. Vintage, 2021. Krastev, Ivan, and Stephen Holmes. The light that failed: A reckoning. Penguin UK, 2019.
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    52 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 7: The Maidan

    ADSA Ukraine Special 7: The Maidan
    Mar 30 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On Putin/Trump (2017): https://workingclassfightbackmemorandum.tumblr.com/post/158085169044/donald-trump-is-an-american-assad Trump's Playboy interview: https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990 Ukraine Maidan: https://www.e-ir.info/2020/07/01/the-maidan-revolution-in-ukraine/ Re: accusations of a "false flag" operation at the Mariupol theater. https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1506394055672213505?s=27 Re: Ukrainian far right "Nazis." https://twitter.com/AnnaGunin/status/1505917682583015426?s=20&t=i9-kcOqJIJOToGLpTN5uhQ
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    29 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 6: Putin's Rise

    ADSA Ukraine Special 6: Putin's Rise
    Mar 28 2022
    Trigger warning: discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call for help: 800-273-8255. To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ How Russians are unwilling to fight: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/putins-killing-machine-that-isnt-working/ Alexievich, Svetlana. "Second Hand Time, trans. Bela Shayevich." (2013).
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    39 mins
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