162 - A.K. 47 - “Formative Years” - Celebrating the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s Birth

On the 154th Anniversary of Kollontai’s birth, Kristen Ghodsee reads a section from her chapter "Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952): Communism as the Only Way Toward Women’s Liberation," written with Natalia Novikova and published in The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World in 2023. Mentioned in this episode: The Arabic translation of “The Political Economy of Love in CapitalismThe forthcoming paperback of Red Valkyries with Verso BooksNew article in the jou...