On the Stalin Question
Parker McQueeney introduces two of Paul Costello’s essays on the topic of Stalin and Stalinism: Stalin and Historical Reality and Stalin and the Problem of …
Month: June 2021
Invisible Empire: The Global Power of Finance with Tony Norfield
Rudy joins Tony Norfield, author of The City: London and the Global Power of Finance (Verso Books) for a broad theoretical practical discussion on the topic of …
Letter: For a Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson’s essay on the “Revolutionary Minimum/Maximum programme” reopens the debate that took place amongst English-speaking Social Democrats at the turn of the 20th century …
Democracy and Socialism, the Two Edges of Marxism’s Knife
Gil Schaeffer responds to Ben Grove’s “Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction” and its arguments about the need for a mass party, critiquing Mike Macnair, Ben …
Letter: Against Bohmian Mechanics
Our recent podcast “Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics” received some pushback in the form of Facebook comments, where it was claimed that we …
Constitution and Class Struggle in the Early American Republic with Matt Christman
Parker and Christian join Matt Christman for a discussion on the class dynamics of the founding of the US, using Charles Beard’s book An Economic Interpretation …
“The Difficult Resurgence of the Balkan Left” by Jean-Arnault Dérens
Translation and Introduction by Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa. The former Yugoslav nations have one of the most storied leftist histories in the world, and …
Letter: On Frontism
Good evening, I am a reader from Portugal, and while reading your many articles that try to answer the eternal question of “What is it …
Race, Class and the Zionist State
Gus Breslauer responds to Angry Workers of the World on the issue of Palestine and Zionism. There is no path “around” Intifada, the working class …
Letter: Bohmian Mechanics
I listened to your podcast titled “Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics” and would like to clarify some confusion about Bohmian mechanics. The Bohmian …
Cybersyn, Cybernetics and Allende’s Chile with Raúl Espejo
Amelia and Rudy join Raul Espejo, one of the top members of the Cybersyn project in Allende’s Chile, the founder of Syncho Research and the president …
Sectarianism Among Communists in American History
Joshua Morris writes on the phenomena of sectarianism in the early US Communist Movement. He is currently authoring a book “The Many Worlds of American …
Dialectical Materialism, Marxist Realism and Quantum Mechanics
Djamil and Rudy sit down for a hardcore episode on the interaction between Soviet diamat philosophy and Quantum Mechanics. We discuss the analytic core of …
The Art of Organizing by Karl Kilbom
Translation and introduction by Tom Anderson. For sake of brevity, certain sections of this handbook have been left out as they are of little interest …