The Lineage of the Collective And Why It Matters
Abram Deborin, Eugen Varga, Milton "Milt" Rosen, Mortimer "Mort" Scheer, Bill Epton, Amadeo Bordiga, Lenin, Mao, Enver Hoxha, HCM, Georgi Dimitrov, Joseph Stalin, Tekahionwake and Thomas Banyacya, Antonio Gramsci, Adam Schaff, György Lukács, Marx, Engels, what did these people have in common? There is a version of this question that gets answered superficially, and the real answer requires understanding not just what these people believed, but what problem they were each responding to, what theoretical tradition they were working within or against, and why someone would assemble this particular list. The Obvious Spine: Marxism-Leninism as the Dominant Throughline The majority of this list is not just "connected to communism" in a vague sense. They represent the full internal architecture of the Marxist-Leninist tradition across the 20th century, from its philosophical foundations to its state applications to its internal fractures. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hoxh...
