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Mario Kessler

Ruth Fischer: Communist and Anti-Communist Between Europe and America, 1895-1961

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Ruth Fischer (1895-1961) was once ranking among Germany’s and Europe’s most prominent women. She was the co-founder of the Communist Party of Austria, became famous as the chair of the Communist Party of Germany in the Weimar Republic and, after 1945, was associated with the anti-communist crusade in the United States where she authored the…

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Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke. New York: Polity Press, 2023

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The philosopher Susan Neiman, after professorships at Yale University and Tel Aviv University, has been director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam for 23 years. At the beginning of her new book, “Left Is Not Woke”, she makes it clear where she is coming from and what her concern is: “I was raised in Georgia during…

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