http://dir.salon.com/topics/communism/?source=rss&aim=communism en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT Andrew Leonard Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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. Andrew O'Hehir Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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. Andrew O'Hehir Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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. Andrew Leonard Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT 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! By David Lipschultz Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/10/cuba_isp/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/10/cuba_isp/index.html?source=rss In Cuba, black market Internet access makes it easier for prostitutes to get connected than doctors. By James Grimmelmann Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/04/25/dot_communism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/04/25/dot_communism/index.html?source=rss Stalin would have loved Silicon Valley's dot-communists. Too bad they got purged. By Daryl Lindsey Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/02/02/schell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/02/02/schell/index.html?source=rss Berkeley professor Orville Schell discusses his role in the publication of papers that shed new light on the Chinese government's crackdown on the 1989 student uprising. By Vivienne Walt Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/12/18/cambodia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/12/18/cambodia/index.html?source=rss Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality? By Alan Deutschman Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/ikea/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/ikea/index.html?source=rss Seeking the triumph of socialism? Look no further than your local Ikea megastore. By Stanley Kutler Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/14/duiker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/14/duiker/index.html?source=rss The Vietnamese revolutionary emerges as a patriot closer to Thomas Jefferson than to V.I. Lenin in this monumental new biography. By Laura Rozen Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/05/milosevic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/05/milosevic/index.html?source=rss A long-suffering people celebrates the apparent end of the regime. But where has their dictator gone? By Laura Rozen Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/04/milosevic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/04/milosevic/index.html?source=rss In a scene reminiscent of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's demise, thousands of ordinary Serbs overpower police to support striking coal miners.