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You might think that kefir has absolutely nothing to do with Marxism, but you'd be wrong. Thread. In the 1880s Pavel Aksel'rod and the other founders of Russian Marxism lived

Tomorrow is the 68th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets—Stalin’s murder of the members of the Jewish Antifascist Committee. These intellectuals played a key role in organizing poltical

I’m about to write the most earnest thread I’ve ever done. It’s about what we can learn about the power of political possibility from history. I’ve had so many people

Thread: on Lenin’s tortured relationship with bikes. In European exile, Lenin rode a bike almost everywhere. It was cost-efficient and an effective means to commune between mass meetings and party

Happy 150th to Lenin! He is perhaps the most fascinating and remarkable historical figure I can think of, yet one whom I would never want to meet in real life