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STALIN : History and Critique of a Black Legend
Born in the olive-grove endowed town of Sannicandro di Bari in
1941, the political philosopher and prolific scholar Domenico
Losurdo departed our world in 2018 when a tumor took his life. With
more than fifty books published since the early 1980s, he had been
in the midst of completing what may have been a triptych on the
history and future of communism.
The first volume, published in Italian in 2017 and not yet available
in English, was a critical reassessment and rethinking of the
history of Western Marxism, its failures, fragmentation, derailments,
and possible futures (Il Marxismo Occidentale: Come Nacque, Come Morì,
Come Può Rinascere) [Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How it
Died, How It Can Be Reborn].1 In that volume, he exposed the politically
self-neutralizing Eurocentrism underlying Western Marxist
dismissals of or animosity towards Marxist successes in the East.
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