The Chinese Rural Commune with Zhun Xu
Matt and Christian join Zhun Xu, author of From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty for a discussion …
Month: January 2021
Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky
In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin’s views regarding art. This text was …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
The Mass Line as an Emancipatory Politics
Cam W responds to the recent debate between Taylor B and Donald Parkinson, outlining a Maoist approach to politics based on the mass line as …
The Founding of the Haitian Communist Party
Translation and introduction by Matthew Strupp. The following text is a translation of sections from Schematic Analysis 1932-1934, the founding document of the original Haitian …
Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen’s A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Before diving into the substance of this …
An X-Ray of the Yugoslav Experiment in Self-Management
For the latest episode of our series on Actually Existing Socialism, Christian, Rudy, Donald, and Connor join forces for a discussion on the Yugoslav self-management …