To Hell With The American Gentry
Nicolas D Villarreal argues against populist appeals for a common front between the working-class and small business owners. Reading: Mick Labas. Earlier this week Patrick …
Month: September 2021
Letter: Struggle Isn’t Enough On Its Own
No Litmus Test but Class Struggle (Paul Duke’s reply to Greer’s article, itself in reply to Democratic Left) brings us back to a fundamental problem …
Radical Approaches to Mental Health: Decolonial and Democratic Psychiatries with Sasha Durakov
Matt and Rudy join Sasha Durakov Warren from Of Unsound Mind for a discussion on the history of psychiatry reform movements and radical mental health. We discuss …
Letter: No Litmus Test but Class Struggle
Wylie Greer touches upon a question that the left in the US is struggling with: what to do with the white working class? He is …
Making Sense of the Lysenko Affair
Soviet agrobiology is infamous for its promotion of the pseudoscientific theories of Trofim Lysenko and their disastrous results. Renato Flores investigates how these theories came …
The Practice of Marxist Psychoanalysis with Daniel Tutt
Donald and Rudy join Daniel Tutt for a discussion on the history and present of psychoanalysis and its relationship to Marxism. We discuss whether psychoanalysis …
The Problem with the Prodigal Son: A Response to Nicholas Powers in Democratic Left
Wylie Greer takes issue with Nicholas Powers’ use of the parable of the Prodigal Son in an editorial for Democratic Left. In the Summer issue …
The Philosophical Structure of Education
Yanis Iqbal summarizes a dialectical materialist approach to knowledge and education, drawing from the work of E.V. Ilyenkov. When education becomes a commodity – when …
Revisiting the Agrarian and National Questions with Paris Yeros
Rudy joins Paris Yeros, the co-editor of Reclaiming the Nation: The Return of the National Question in Africa, Asia and Latin America and Reclaiming the …
The Counterinsurgency State by Ruy Mauro Marini
To commemorate the anniversary of Salvador Allende’s death and the fall of Chile’s Popular Unity government, we present this analysis of reactionary military governments in …
Letter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PMC
Comrades, First, let me apologize for the title, as it is misleading, but hey, nothing like a provocative headline that gets the people going, right? …
Audiobook of Mike Macnair’s Revolutionary Strategy
This is a narration of Mike Macnair’s groundbreaking book Revolutionary Strategy, by the team at Cosmonaut Magazine. Narration and editing is done by Lydia Apolinar. …
Canadian Settler-Capitalism with Brendan and Tyler Shipley
Rudy and Brendan join Tyler Shipley, author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination, for a discussion on the past, present …
Letter: It’s the PMC, Silly
I found Renato Flore’s article “The Procedural is Political” to make some important points. But I found it even more frustrating, if only because it …