Read Le Blanc. Be careful.
Cliff Connolly reviews Paul LeBlanc’s latest work ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press on September 20th. Cliff will be speaking on …
Month: August 2023
A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time with Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek
Rudy joins authors Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek to explore their latest book, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free …
Letter: On the Future of BDS in DSA
We have failed Palestinians. But not in the way that you are probably imagining: the hostility that BDS experienced at DSA’s recent convention is tragic, …
Marxist Clarity in Times of Confusion and Despair
Donald Parkinson, the editor-in-chief of Cosmonaut, gives a short historical overview of Cosmonaut and Marxist Unity Group and introduces crucial member-written articles to help clarify …
Shades of Collective Power
Sam DiBella covers the recent controversy over the election of convention delegates in Metro DC DSA and assesses the role played by the remains of …
Letter: Can Contradictions Be?
In a recent article for this very magazine, Dimitris Moustakas used formal logic to confront Zeno’s paradoxes in a deconstruction of Marxian “dialectical logic.” It …
Marxist Unity Group & the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Convention
Amelia joins Amy, Steven, and Greg for a discussion centered around the Marxist Unity Group (MUG) in the aftermath of the recent Democratic Socialists of …
Letter: Crisis in the Brazilian Communist Party
In the last month, a crisis has erupted in the Brazilian Communist Party, the PCB. Here is a translated political note by the National Coordination …
What Contradictions Cannot Be
Dimitris Moustakas uses formal logic to confront Zeno’s paradoxes in a deconstruction of Marxian “dialectical logic.” Richard Artschweger, Zeno’s Paradox, 2004 Within Marxist circles, among …
The UPS Struggle and the Tasks of Marxists in the Labor Movement
Teamsters Mobilize members and former activists in Revolutionary Marxist Students Audrey Johnson and Lenni Myers assess the current UPS tentative agreement and outline a Marxist strategy …
Czechoslovakia’s Quest for Reform: Unraveling the Prague Spring
Chas, Christian, Rudy, and James come together to delve into a comprehensive conversation about the Prague Spring, a significant Czechoslovak reform movement. Their discussion begins …
Letter: New Communism or New Vulgarism?
If communism is to mean anything, it means a qualitatively different kind of life from what we currently have in our current society. Communism is …
Why the U.S. Left Must Oppose NATO
Sudip Bhattacharya argues that for socialists in the United States, the main enemy is at home. Amilcar Cabral, the late revolutionary hero for the independence …
Towards a New Communism
Referencing Marx, Hegel, and Zizek, William P. Aguilar elaborates a negatory theory of communism as the de-commodification of everything. Xu Yong, Negative 31 (1989) ABSTRACT …