This lecture was given at the National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Philadelphia on November 21, 2008. By the time Deutscher completed his ...

Among the medieval Jews, there was an interpretive tradition called the Tosafat in which successive generations of Jewish scholars commentate on verses and older commentaries. A page of a Tosafat book ...

Isaac Deutscher stands out among the early intellectual mentors of the New Left as the only one who expounded classical Marxism. On a mid-1960s “must read” authors list that included C. By signing up, ...

In later years, Trotsky commented that Lenin’s work was distinguished by the highest level of theoretical conscientiousness. This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism against ...

Common Sense was the Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) published from May 1987 – December of 1999. It was a “journal of a wholly new type.. a non-university based ...