The Communist Party Helped Shape US History
A new book tells the story of American communism as an integral part of 20th-century US history, with Communists “as social critics and agents of much-needed social change.”
2 Articles by: Daniel Colligan
Daniel Colligan is a PhD candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Did the Thirty Years’ War Produce Capitalism?
The podcast Chapo Trap House’s miniseries Hell on Earth is an entertaining story which proposes that the Thirty Years’ War midwifed the birth of capitalism. Ultimately, however, the interesting argument doesn’t hold up.