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Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism

Open Culture 07 September 2026 14h ago
Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism
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In 1927, Bertrand Russell delivered a lecture titled “Why I Am Not a Christian.” At the time, such a declaration was still fairly bold, as was the reasoning he provided for it. Nearly three decades thereafter, he included in his collection Portraits from Memory another, shorter piece, “Why I Am Not a Communist.” That description […]
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