Communism, Post-Communism, and Democracy
Journal: Perspectives on Politics
Year: 2017

A world is at war. Empires-in Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East and North Africaare crumbling. Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-German revolutionary Marxist, had anticipated the destruction in her prescient "Junius Pamphlet": "This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. At first, this happens sporadically for the duration of a modern war, but then when the period of unlimited wars begins it progresses toward its inevitable c