William Briggs is a political economist whose special areas of interest lies in Marxist political theory. He has been, variously, a teacher, journalist, and political activist. He lived and worked in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union. Decades later he completed a PhD that defended classical Marxist theory. In this live stream Briggs will discuss his upcoming book "Removing The Stalin Stain" which is coming out in October from Zero Books.

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