http://dir.salon.com/topics/communism/?source=rss&aim=communism en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST By Janine R. Wedel Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/08/berlin_wall/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/08/berlin_wall/index.html?source=rss The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way By Laura Miller Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/10/01/trotsky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/10/01/trotsky/index.html?source=rss A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies) By Alexander Zaitchik Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html?source=rss Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/03/communism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/03/communism/index.html?source=rss A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong By Andreas Lorenz Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/04/tiananmen/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/04/tiananmen/index.html?source=rss Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China. By Andrew Leonard Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/31/rand_lenin_and_obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/31/rand_lenin_and_obama/index.html?source=rss Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time? By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/12/24/grain_theater/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/12/24/grain_theater/index.html?source=rss Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one. By Andrew Leonard Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/18/capitalism_as_we_know_it/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/18/capitalism_as_we_know_it/index.html?source=rss A reflection on current affairs By Alexander Nazaryan Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn/index.html?source=rss Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty. By Joe Conason Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/07/04/mcain_vietnam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/07/04/mcain_vietnam/index.html?source=rss In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century. By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family. By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece. By Dana Cook Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/23/yeltsin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/23/yeltsin/index.html?source=rss Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink. By Stephanie Zacharek Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/02/09/lives_of_others/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/02/09/lives_of_others/index.html?source=rss This Academy Award-nominated film explores life in East Berlin under the Stasi -- and what it means to be human. By Cary Tennis Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/16/capitalism_and_contradiction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/16/capitalism_and_contradiction/index.html?source=rss I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right. By Andrew Leonard Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/18/communist_wal_mart/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/18/communist_wal_mart/index.html?source=rss For business reasons, Wal-Mart allows Communists to get organized. Meanwhile, China's middle class gets restive By Sidney Blumenthal Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found. By Sarah Goldstein Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/07/14/nadelson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/07/14/nadelson/index.html?source=rss A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West. By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/05/05/stalin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/05/05/stalin/index.html?source=rss The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path. By Sidney Blumenthal Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/06/10/reagan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/06/10/reagan/index.html?source=rss Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency. By Joan Walsh Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/10/30/weinstein/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/10/30/weinstein/index.html?source=rss In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean. By Charles Taylor Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/06/25/funder/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/06/25/funder/index.html?source=rss In "Stasiland," writer Anna Funder talks to former members of the Stasi -- the communist East German security apparatus -- and to the people whose lives they destroyed. By Michelle Goldberg Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/06/04/hollywood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/06/04/hollywood/index.html?source=rss Two academics are so eager to find socialist themes in classic Hollywood films that they wind up lending credence to McCarthyism. By Andrew Leonard Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/06/unamerican/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/06/unamerican/index.html?source=rss There is only one force that could be responsible for this man's undermining of the capitalist system!