What Remains
Taylor Thornburg offers a communist analysis of the internet and explores its different ideological uses. “What do people get wrong about drawing Pepe?” an interviewer …
Month: March 2021
Ethiopia: From the ’74 Revolution to the present with Ian Scott Horst
Sam and Rudy join Ian Scott Horst, author of Like Ho Chi Minh! Like Che Guevara! The Revolutionary Left in Ethiopia, 1969–1979 (Foreign Languages Press) …
Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. It’s October 1917 …
The Early Communist Women’s Movement with Daria Dyakonova
Lydia and Anne sit down with Daria Dyakonova to discuss the often neglected history of the Communist Women’s Movement (1920-22). They talk about the origins …
Organizing our Organizations
Amelia, Jake, Steve and Rudy sit down for a discussion of what experiences in organizing brought them to be interested in Cybernetics and Beer’s viable …
Class and Race in Israel/Palestine with Emmanuel Farjoun
Lydia, Isaac and Rudy join Emmanuel Farjoun from Matzpen for a discussion on his 1983 piece Class divisions in Israeli society and how the divisions …
Letter: Reply to Paul Demarty on The Platform is the Message
First of all, I would like to thank Paul Demarty for his incredibly thoughtful reply to The Platform is the Message. His point about party …
The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)
First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 The significance of the Second International Conference of Women Socialists should not be judged by its depiction …
Letter: Thoughts on The Platform is the Message
Comrades, A few thoughts on Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores’ The Platform is the Message. I think the comrades are on the right track in their …
The Platform is the Message
Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own …
Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate
This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of …