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Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
Lawrence Parker, August 14, 2020
The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: LC. Read Article.
Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Lawrence Parker, November 24, 2020
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and Lenin. By Lawrence Parker. Read Article.
Reintroducing John Dos Passos
Lawrence Parker, March 2, 2022
Lawrence Parker introduces a 1938 New Masses article by Granville Hicks on US writer John Dos Passos and argues that the latter’s work is ripe for re-appropriation and re-examination by the revolutionary left. Read Article.
Anti-Hyndman: The Struggle Against Militarism in the pre-1914 British Socialist Movement
Lawrence Parker, October 11, 2022
Through a historical analysis of the struggle against the militarism of Henry Hyndman in the pre-WWI British socialist movement, Lawrence Parker demonstrates the ways in which the informal, moral authority of the Second International was capable of making significant interventions in the politics of its national constituent parties. Read Article.
Two Souls Within His Breast: Georg Lukács, 1925-29
Lawrence Parker, January 10, 2023
Lawrence Parker argues that existing Trotskyist schemas around the revolutionary career of Georg Lukács in the mid-to-late 1920s are fallacious in the extreme. Read Article.
More or Less Erfurt? The CPGB’s 1939 Draft Programme
Lawrence Parker, October 20, 2023
Lawrence Parker details the history of and reception to the document which, he argues, drew upon "disgraced" figures such as Kautsky and Bukharin and captured the CPGB’s Janus-faced nature at the outset of the Second World War. Read Article.
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
Lawrence Parker, May 10, 2024
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None of these stories stack up, writes Lawrence Parker. Read Article.