Domenico Losurdo, one of the greatest Marxists of the 21st century so far, has died at the age of 77
Liberalism- A Counter History is essential reading for any serious Marxist IMO
Domenico Losurdo, 1941-2018
Caleb Stewart
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Kayden Cooper
rip in pace
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Lincoln Martin
RIP IN PIECES.
Hudson Bell
He was no doubtne of the best and most influential Marxists still alive
He fought hard against reformism (Eurocommunism), and against the dissolution of the PCI.
His works are really good, apart from what OP has mentioned on liberalism, he fought against historical revisionism, his work on actually existing socialist countries is superb.
The thing is although in Europe he was really known his works are not translated mostly to English
Rest in peace comrade, may we some day rember you as one of the people who contributed to the creation of a strong socialist world revolution.
Easton Bailey
Please don't use "historical revisionism" to mean flat out lying about the past.
Isaac Moore
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I was thinking about him yesterday, of all things.
Christopher Foster
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Jason Jenkins
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His books were great, only read three of them;his book on Stalin, a collection of essays talking about the xx century (surprisingly coherent, you almost couldn't tell it was a collection of essays) and one about Hegel and the liberal tradition. Every single on of them was superb, he was a great thinker and historian of philosophy.
I'm planning on reading his most recent book on western marxism,
Ethan Wilson
That book is so fucking good, sad it is not translated to English, you are probably really going to like it.
He basically argues that Marxism was more or less distorted in the west (and by west he means Western Europe and America North and also South)
And argues for oriental Marxism and how it was it, and not western Marxism the one that has basically achieved every succesful revolution ( he says that even the DDR and socialist European countries followed this "oriental" marxism instead of the Western revision) ,and has been a vital piece of liberation movements around half the world.
In contrast with the Western that has not a clear idea of the state,and has fallen into utopian reformism.
Parker Stewart
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Read a few interviews with him sometime ago, pretty good
Parker Thompson
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This is one of the las interviews he gave in English, it is really good
Ethan Baker
If someone wants really hard a translation for some interview or stuff like that i can make it, just ask, only pliz not too long.
Cooper Bennett
I've never heard of him, which of his should I read first?
Tyler Brooks
His work on Liberalism is really good:
Adam Clark
He defended stalin against historical 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧americanism🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Adam Gutierrez
I find his work on Stalin to be much better than Furr's book, or even than the famous "Another view of Stalin" by Ludo Martens
Tyler Russell
Care to expand on the Martens book? Never his book on Stalin, although I did read some other books by him and they were pretty alright if a bit histrionic.
Ryan Smith
It is really good I really suggest you read it .Losurdo's book is better though, more direct, better written, and overall a greater work (It is not in English though)
Colton Lewis
Does anyone have epubs of his works on Stalin?
Josiah Campbell
Ah, so it's good but not as good as Losurdo's. I should read it at some point, Oscar Niemeyer thought it was great read.
And the brazilian portuguese translation suffers from a shoddy translation job, or at least a lack of revision.
Michael Brown
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David Gutierrez
It's work on Stalin is not translated to Emglish, I have it in Italian,French and Spanish
James Russell
Here are a collection of somw of his works (take into account only a small part of them are translated to English):
Liberalism- A Counter History. Rigorous historical and philosophical critique of liberalism: abahlali.org
War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
A fabulous criticism of a reactionary trend in history that seeks to do away with the revolutionary tradition and act as an apologia for fascism and colonialism: t.co
Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History, penetrating analysis of and argument for class struggle as an analytic: library.memoryoftheworld.org
Non-Violence: A History Beyond The Myth: library.memoryoftheworld.org
Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism. Powerful historical and philosophical critique of the concept of totalitarianism: library.memoryoftheworld.org
One of the best Marxists of the 21st century undoubtely
Jaxon Barnes
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Dominic Adams
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Austin Gray
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Jeremiah Allen
inb4 thirty replies
Austin Thomas
He was really good, his analysis on Liberalism is really on point
Jaxson Adams
Here's an amateur translation of his work on Stalin, it seems readable:
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Colton Morris
Maduro holding Losurdo's book on Stalin:
"Comrade Stalin, who defeated Hitler."
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Jaxson Mitchell
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Chase White
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Kevin Green
Could you share the one in Italian?
Gavin Brown
He looks rich. I thought commies didn't believe in class?
Easton Harris
Really makes me hmm
Jaxson Fisher
Lol
Anthony Morris
Mason Thompson
How come he did not "equalify" himself with the masses he whines about?
John Brooks
Have you ever read a Marxist?
Because claiming this is what Marxism is about is retarded
Christopher Jones
TL;DR?
Jeremiah Flores
Some good stuff if you look at him as a "classical" Marxist, but I got down to where he was talking about China and how criticism of Mao and whatnot was just imperialist revisionism etc… and that sounds fucking batty, or so willing to defend socialism/communism that even when horrible things are done in its name, its okay. Mao and his era were entirely horrible and reprehensible - so was other things done by communists and socialists of the time like getting rid of experts in various fields because they were "bourgeois". That's what caused a fucking great famine, stuff like just deciding that sparrows were pests. He also brutalized even other socialist/communist thinkers with the whole "thousand flowers" or whatever it was called period, where he said "yeah I want to hear great ideas! Its okay" and then executed everyone else. Fuck.
If Socialism is going to have a real future we can't be stuck in the past and we can't make the same mistakes either.
Jose Robinson
Liberal propaganda intensifies
>>>Zig Forums is that way
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Ian Myers
Not that user, but there is at least some merit to the idea that the weird imbalance between egalitarian and sometimes Marxist theorists/academics and their relative levels of wealth is wrong somehow. How far that merit goes, I can't decide, but what made me think about it is a fantastic work by the canadian Marxist G.A. Cohen called "If you're an egalitarian, why are you so rich?" Link related.
Easton Edwards
"Am at a 1917 centenary conference in Sao Paulo organised by Boitempo, the radical left publishing house in Brazil. About a thousand people attending. One of the speakers scheduled was Esteban Volkov, ⛏️rotsky's grandson speaking on the Life of ⛏️rotsky. Esteban was not well enough to travel. The organisers decided that Domenico Losurdo might be a suitable substitute. Losurdo as is well-known is a staunch Stalinist. He accepted and savaged ⛏️rotsky. An Argentinian replied and there was a raucous debate. I was on a plane when all this happened. Sorry to have missed this clash. Now I understand what the BBC woman interviewing me meant when she asked:"Do you think there is a Stalin revival taking place?'
Will get more details today…"
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holy fuck my sides
How cucked can Trots get?
Ayden Jackson
Read Losurdo should be the next Zig Forums catchphrase
Asher Ward
How about before anyone memes him, they actually read him, and read Marx and Lenin. Then they'd realize that memeing random authors is stupid, and usually the core Marxists texts should be the go-to recommendation.
Oliver Torres
If anyone cares, I've converted the amateur translation to pdf, and to epub too but that one didn't come out quite right
Eli Long
Nice, thanks!!
Lol
Brandon Jones
rehabilitating stalin in the twenty first fucking century lol
Noah Myers
Ruthless criticism of all that exists bucko. Especially bourgeois lies and propaganda. Stalin was far from perfect, but he did a lot of good shit and not even close to the amount of bad stuff people put on him.
Jason Russell
This
Also I'd say that although it is a fantastic book you should not real Losurdo because of his works on Stalin, but because of his on point analysis on the Communist movement in the western hemisphere as well as his critizism on liberalism (IMO the best marxist analysis of it out there).
I really suggest you read thr book OP posted, to look what Losurdo is about, instead of just dismissing him because he studied Stalin, in another book
Jaxson Ward
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