19701 Articles by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.
“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.
Questioning October
Lenin and the debates that shaped the Russian Revolution have been misunderstood by friends and foes alike.
Ulyanovsk
A review of Lars Lih’s Lenin
Rosa’s Mail
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg reveal a revolutionary who was deeply committed and defiantly humane.