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The Wikipedia page of Women's Brigade of Weather Underground claims that "all female members were required to have sex with all male members, and women also had sexual relations with other women, as monogamous relationships were considered counterrevolutionary". Is this true?	32
Karl Kautsky was considered to be a foremost Marxist theoretician and something of a successor to Marx and Engels after their death. How did he drop out of prominence and why isn't he remembered today?	32
Is there any evidence that Beria poisoned Stalin or had any role in initiating his death?	32
In 1960, the Communist Party of Indonesia had a membership of 3 million people and had received fair number of vote in previous election. How was it completely eliminated after 1965-66 compared to say Italian or German left under Mussolini/Hitler which re-emerged after restoration of democracy?	32
When did merchants as a distinct stratum in capitalist society disappear into the ranks of industrial and banking capital in developed Western countries? Were there any noticeable turning points in this process?	32
Did Joseph Goebbels really demand that ‘the petty bourgeois Adolf Hitler’ be removed from the Party in 1925?	31
How accurate is to suggest that post-colonial dictatorships in many African countries were the result of Colonial institutions and obstruction of native democratic developments?	30
Is the left wing anarchist Bob Black right in saying that "Italian syndicalists mostly went over to Fascists"?	30
Archaeologist Micheal E Smith claimed that Aztecs had a market economy with extensive commercialisation. Do historians agree with this assessment?	30
How did Hindus like Chander Bhan end up in high positions under the Islamic Mughal Empire? To what extent did Hindus, Christians face discrimination when they tried to rise up the administrative hierarchy?	30

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