Letter: Response to Steve Bloom’s 21st Century Marxism
This letter is in response to Steve Bloom’s February 17th article, ‘For a 21st Century Marxism.’ I’ll share responses to his piece and conclude by …
Month: February 2023
Montreal is an Island: 1968 and the Black International Left with David Austin
Isaac and Jackson join David Austin, author of Fear of a Black Nation and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, …
On Bordiga’s ‘Democratic Principle’
Francesco Sartor responds to last year’s debate on Italian Communist Party founder Amadeo Bordiga’s understanding of democracy with an analysis of his 1922 article ‘The …
The Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism with Jesse Olsavsky
Cliff and Isaac join Jesse Olsavsky, author of The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861, for a discussion …
Letter: On ‘Not Very Quiet in the Western Front’
Until today, All Quiet on the Western Front was the oldest book on my Goodreads to-read list (January 2016!). When the Netflix movie came out, …
For a 21st Century Marxism
Steve Bloom considers what is living and what is dead in the corpus of Marxism with the intention of forging an adequate revolutionary theory for …
Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism
Nodrada explores the tensions and resonances between Marxism and Indigenous thought, putting the writings of Native theorists such as Vine Deloria Jr., Luther Standing Bear, …
The Hungarian Tragedy of ’56: Origins, Events and Consequences
James, Cliff, Chas and Rudy join for a discussion on the events that take place in Hungary in 1956. We discuss the origins of the …
Letter: Response to Dan Lazare
The way in which Marxists in the US understand our own history, especially the period of the American Revolution and early republic, has been underdeveloped …
Not Very Quiet On The Western Front
Francis Babeuf reviews director Edward Berger’s new Netflix-produced screen adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 anti-war novel ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ arguing that …
America as Conservative Democracy
How truly revolutionary was the American Revolution? Dan Lazare argues that it was hardly a revolution in the sense we would understand today, with consequences …