Alex’s Substack

A substack of personal musings on Marxism and what it means to be a revolutionary in 2024. I am a Professor and an environmental historian of Russia and Europe.

Launched 3 years ago

Recent Posts

Disappearance of the Commons (Again)

• The Enclosure Movement and the Contemporary Push to Privatize Federal Land in the United States
• May 1 • Alex

Take a Course With Me: Modern European History

• May 2026
• Apr 14 • Alex

NEW COURSE! Modern Russia and the USSR

• Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2019 did not happen in a vacuum.
• Feb 19 • Alex

Why All Activists Should Read Das Kapital

• For understanding the social and economic dynamics of our world today
• Jan 13 • Alex

The Second International and the "Jewish Question"

• Internationalism, Zionism, and Antisemitism
• Jan 11 • Alex

NEW COURSE! Reading Capital Volume 1

• March 2026
• Jan 3 • Alex

Most Popular

Come As You Are

• May 1, 2024 • Alex

Weird Marxism

• Feb 1, 2024 • Alex

Revisiting the Utopian Socialists

• Nov 18, 2025 • Alex

'You're Canceled!'

• Mar 1, 2024 • Alex and Black Lodges

The History of European Socialism

• December 2025 (Limited Seats!) • Alex

The Revolutionary Situation that the American Left Wants but is Not Living In

• The March of Repression
• Sep 21, 2025 • Alex

Charlie Kirk, Terrorism, and Marxism

• “for without the working people all bombs are powerless, patently powerless.”
• Sep 11, 2025 • Alex

Introduction to Political Economy

• Offering the course again at the end of September!
• Aug 10, 2025 • Alex

New Course!

• Modern Europe 1789-2019
• Jun 20, 2025 • Alex

Alex’s Substack