Lessons From the First Red Century
"We want a left that can learn from 1917 Russia and 1976 Sweden."
A monument to Hjalmar Branting, the first Social Democratic prime minister of Sweden.
The following is adapted from a discussion between Jacobin contributing editor Jonah Birch and Bhaskar Sunkara, on Sunkara’s “The Few Who Won,” an article in our new issue, “The First Red Century.”
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Jonah Birch
We’re at the end of a year of looking back at the Russian Revolution, and there is clearly a debate about how relevant it is to talk about 1917 Russia. There has been a whole series of publications this year, like China Mieville‘s October, which deal with the history of 1917. What is the relevance of the Russian Revolution for us today?
Bhaskar Sunkara
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