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Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the future of the Left

Red Flags traces the path from the 1917 Russian Revolution to the construction of the world’s first AES society: the USSR. It also looks at the post-revolution societies created along the same lines in China and Cuba. Using the intellectual tools of historical materialism, Red Flags argues that they were not in fact moving towards communism because the social relations remained fixed in class exploitation. The workers were never liberated.
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At a time of burgeoning anti-communism from both conservatives and liberals, this book is an accessible, vibrant synthesis of the history of communism that draws on the latest research to develop a rigorous analysis of the contradictions and uneasy truths the left needs to confront if it is to build a genuinely liberatory alternative to capitalism.


May 3, 2025. Winnipeg launch at McNallyRobinson Booksellers
Featuring special guests Tami Gadir and Andrew Loewen.
May 15, 2025. A discussion hosted by Greater Manchester rs21
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