Famous Thinkers
This famous German co-wrote the Communist Manifesto...
Who was Friedrich Engels?
The Soviet Union was first declared after this major event...
What was the Russian Revolution/Civil War?
This famous activist led the first major Civil Rights march in the US Northeast; starting from Roxbury and moving to Boston's downtown...
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This form of socialism predates Marxist thought and emphasizes idealism...
What is Utopian Socialism?
This famous Latin American revolutionary survived over 600 CIA assassination attempts.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This Russian revolutionary argued in favor of an ongoing "permanent" revolution and against the idea of "socialism in one country"...
Who was Leon Trotsky?
This event during the Chinese Civil War saw the entire communist army relocate to rural Northern China...
What was the Long March?
This mostly student union led one of the longest college strikes in US history with the aid of its surrounding community...
What is BUGWU (BU Graduate Workers Union)?
This mode of thought is used to explain the interrelation between separate concepts...
What are dialectics?
This agricultural company was involved in several Latin American companies, often being backed by the CIA...
What was the United Fruit Company?
These three Cuban Revolutionaries led the guerrilla war against the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista..
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Camilo Cienfuegos
This attempted revolution in a major Western European city took place in 1871...
What was the Paris Commune?
This campaign & organization successfully pushed a major Zionist weapons manufacturer out of Cambridge...
What was the campaign against Elbit Systems, led by BDS Boston?
Labor-power
This Central American nation suffered a US back coup in 1954. This eventually led to a civil war and genocide...
What is Guatemala?
The betrayal of this German revolutionary illustrates the ways Social Democrats will betray socialism for capitalist interests...
Who was Rosa Luxemburg?
This battle in West Virginia took place in order to forcibly end a major miners' strike...
What was the Battle of Blair Mountain?
This Boston University president was infamous for his union busting, defense of Apartheid, and social conservatism...
Who was John Silber?
What is overproduction?
The CIA was instrumental in this period of Argentinian state violence against leftist groups...
What was the Dirty War or Guerra Sucia?
This revolutionary, born in Mauritius, argued that violence is a valid means of resistance for colonized people, not out of moral justification, but out of scientific, physical necessity...
Franz Fanon
Where is Zanzibar?
This school's Palestine solidarity organization has managed to get several laboratories to cut research ties with the Israeli Occupation Forces and Lockheed Martin...
What is MIT?
This concept explains how society's material conditions & mode of production shape everything else not immediately. related to production (culture, institutions, ideologies, etc)
What is Base & Superstructure?
The CIA aided this Southeast Asian country when it decided to kill or disappear anywhere between 300,000 and 3 million leftist dissidents in the 60s...
What is Indonesia?