Rethinking Marxist Politics
Drawing from Gramscian and Althusserian approaches to pedagogy, Yanis Iqbal argues that a successful future for socialist politics must be based on a merger of …
Month: June 2022
From Paris to Petrograd: State and Revolution in Practice
Parker, James, Rudy and Cliff join for a discussion on the context of Lenin’s State and Revolution, and how those ideas were applied in the …
Letter: Roots of Islamism
I am pleased to see the awaited Part 2 of Josh Messite’s series on Afghanistan. I intended to reply to Part 1 when it first …
Surge and Decline, Part 2: Course Correction
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, traces the roots of 9/11 and the “War on Terror” it justified all the way back to mid-century efforts …
Full Time: a Caustic Film About the Inhuman Face of Capitalism
Christos Kefalis, editor of the journal Marxist Thought, argues that French director Éric Gravel’s new film Full Time (French: Á plein temps) presents a remarkable cinematic social …
War in Ukraine: A Debate Organized by Cosmonaut Magazine
Cosmonaut Magazine is hosting a panel discussion and debate on the situation in Ukraine. About this event: Cosmonaut Magazine is hosting a panel discussion and …
Letter: Comments to Parkinson’s Reply
Parkinson has written a reply to me – I agree with a considerable portion of the political positions that Parkinson presents and he is convincing …
Letter: Fighting Imperialism Needs Clear Politics Not Abstract Platitudes
Hilgers “Specificity of Anti-Imperialism” urges its readers to “make war on war.” Who could disagree? Furthermore, they claim we need to overcome the negative dialectic …
Putin and the Project of a Big Russian Nation
Translation by Alex Andreev. The original article can be found here. Translator’s Introduction One of the arguments in favor of the initiation of the military …
The Specificity of Anti-Imperialism
S. Hilgers examines the arguments of the two sides which have emerged on the Left regarding how to conceptualize anti-imperialism in the case of the …
Roots of the Rank and File Strategy with Kim Moody
Annie and Paul join Kim Moody, a socialist and labor movement theorist and author of The Rank and File Strategy and Breaking the Impasse. We …
The Long Crisis of Democracy
The following is an excerpted version of a piece authored by NYC-DSA members Marvin González and M. Fleischman in response to Warren Montag’s 2021 article “The …
We Will Return to Pandemic Protections Within a Year
William Silversmith, a member of the Central Jersey Democratic Socialists of America who has previously written on the scientific evidence for cognitive dysfunction in Long …
Letter: The Truth of Stalinism
The Cosmonaut podcast episode on Stalin provides a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist period that serves as a necessary corrective to the vulgar anti-Stalinist narratives …