By Roger Keeran and Joseph Jamison

In March 2015 the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLF) posted an essay by Michael Brie, the director of its Institute for Social Analysis, entitled "The Tragedy of Party Communism." (www.rosalux-nyc.org/the-tragedy-of-party-communism/ (http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/the-tragedy-of-party-communism/)) The most remarkable aspect of this essay is its complete banality. It adds nothing to the oft-repeated indictment of Communism, Leninism, Stalinism and the Soviet Union. No new fact. No new idea.

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