Memo on DSA Electoral Campaigns
DSA member Peter Moody looks over DSA’s electoral strategy and its current application, specifically in the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign, arguing that the task of making …
Month: October 2018
How Empires Die
Rosa Janis argues for a theory of crisis and social decay that uses elements of Marx’s Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall as …
Letter: Orgone Commune manifesto
MANIFESTO FOR ORGONE COMMUNE NAMED “TRANSCEND” OF EXTRATERRESTRAIL EDUCATION AND RESAERCH: BEHOLD! THE REICHEAN-POSADIST SYNTHESIS! FOR MANY, THESE TWO METHODS OF DIALECTICAL ANALYSIS ARE NONCOMPLAMENTORY, …
Insurrection and Defeat in Bavaria, 1918–19 (Part 2)
Alexander Gallus concludes his saga on the Bavarian Soviet Republic and tries to draw political lessons from its failures. The leader of the Bavarian November …
From Workers’ Party to Workers’ Republic
Donald Parkinson takes a look at the history of the First, Second and Third Internationals, arguing for an approach to party-building and political strategy that …
Dispatch on Brazil
Amelia Davenport interviews Hugo Souza, a militant in the Brazilian left, on organizing, the right-wing Bolsonaro’s campaign that is taking aim at state power with …
Letter: On Cosmonaut’s vanguardism
Cosmonaut reeks of Leninist vanguardism and is just more of the same M-L crap in a new disguise. I can guarantee the writers at Cosmonaut do …
Missing Victory? Blanqui and the Paris Commune
Louis August Blanqui was a key revolutionary leader in the French Socialist movement. Yet when the Paris Commune erupted in 1871, Blanqui was in prison, …
The USSR’s Founding Mother
M.A. Iasilli on what Bolshevik militant Nadezhda Krupskaya can teach us about education and labor. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Since researching the stages of national development …
Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman’s ‘Direct Action’
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman’s Direct Action, a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left …
How to Play with Fire: Electoral Politics in the Heart of Empire
Ira Pollock examines the difficulties of left electoral strategy regarding the question of imperialism and affirms the importance of upholding strong anti-imperialist principles in electoral …