Richard Greeman

A moderated panel discussion on Marxism and Anarchism held at Stony Brook University on March 5, 2014. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Michael Schwartz (Stony Brook) Richard Greeman (The Victor Serge Foundation) Joshua Stephens (The Institute of Anarchist Studies). Description It seems that there are still only two radical ideologies: Anarchism and Marxism. They emerged out of the same crucible – the Industrial Revolution, the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848 and 1871, a weak liberalism, the centralization of state power, the rise of the workers movement, and the promise of socialism. [Read More]

A book chat with Richard Greeman, translator of Victor Serge’s “Memoirs of a Revolutionary” and “Russia in Danger,” held on May 8 2013 at the New School. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description Victor Serge (1890–1947) was an international revolutionary and writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. [Read More]