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The Rise and Fall of Participatory Management in the People's Republic of China Part 2: Mass Movements, Workers, and the Party-State

In part two of a three-part serialized series examining the systemic limitations and historical potentials of democratic workplace management in the People's Republic of China, Mark Reid examines the rise of mass worker movements during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, such as the Shanghai People's Commune and Shengwulian, and the divergent responses to these movements from the party-state. Read Part 1.

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Diagnosing the Populist Impasse: On Varn and Tutt’s "The People are Not One"

Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime.

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Abolish Blue Power

Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis.

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Letter: Three Takeaways from our Fight for Marxist Politics in Socialist Alternative

June 28, 2026

“On June 25, I was expelled from Socialist Alternative (SAlt) in the US, along with about twenty other comrades. These expulsions are part of an ongoing effort to …”

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Letter: Conspiracy Theories, Limited Hangouts, and Theory of Knowledge

June 27, 2026

“The central thesis of Ray F.’s letter “In Defense of Conspiracy Theory” offers both a compelling argument for why communists should seriously investigate and engage with popular conspiracy …”

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Letter: On Revolutionary Romanticism and the Chinese Revolution

June 23, 2026

“I recently happened to read a piece from March, Arjunveer Singh’s Beyond Revolutionary Romanticism: The Case for Strategic Socialist Transition, which I found rather disappointing. Singh lays out …”

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