There were few Marxist sympathizers among Polish classicists decimated during World War II. How they fared the tense and uncertain first postwar decade depended on their Communist connections personality. Kazimierz Majewski (1903–1981), a classicist from Lviv, commanded quasi-universal respect in academic community – despite his views because of scholarly, organizational, didactic achievements....

Abstract Soviet leaders sent troops into Afghanistan in December 1979 to support a friendly Marxist-Leninist regime its conflict against popular insurgency and help it build new society. When the withdrew nine years later, they left behind state that had none of nominal characteristics Soviet-type Communist country. During war, People's Democratic Party discarded Marxism-Leninism turned Islam. ...

Simon Clarke was an original and consistent Marxist thinker. From early stage in his career, he independently developed a cogent, non-dogmatic reading of Marx’s work that ran against the grain dominant variants Marx day. In this piece, we delineate main features Clarke’s Marxism through essay, first drafted 1970. We highlight critique ideology, focus on forms which social relations production a...