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A True History of the IWW’s 'Little Red Songbook'; or, Why Do Socialists Struggle to Discuss Aesthetics?

Jackson Albert Mann responds to recent, inaccurate commemorations of the IWW's Little Red Songbook with a meditation on the socialist movement's relationship to its artistic history and approach to aesthetic theory.

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Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'

Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos.

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Abundance Liberalism or Social Efficiency: A Review of 'Abundance'

Similar to the discourse of late nineteenth century progressivism, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance proposes an empty theory of progress that fails to reckon with the reality of political struggle, argues Marco Rosaire Rossi.

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When Science Is Abandoned, The Flower Withers: A Review of 'Flowers For Marx'

Flowers For Marx, a new collection of essays on Marxism, successfully facilitates dialogue between multiple camps of the contemporary socialist movement, but suffers from its contributors' collective reluctance to defend Marxism as a heterodox science, argues Nicolas D Villarreal.

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Letter: Adults in the Room?—The 2025 'Jacobin' Conference

October 15, 2025

“Last month, on Saturday, September 13, Jacobin Magazine held a day-long conference at Church in the Village, a politically progressive, combined Methodist congregation on the corner of 13th …”

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Letter: “Socialist Unity?” A Principled Provocation—An Open Letter to Tom O'Brien

October 2, 2025

“Dear Tom,I’ve returned frequently to your talk “Unifying Marxism & Cybernetics,”[9de659] which you presented earlier this year at the Complex Anarchism Symposium in Brussels.The talk is a critique …”

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Letter: Sufficiency, Not Efficiency—The Problem with 'Abundance'

September 29, 2025

“I found much to agree with in Marco Rosaire Rossi’s account of the liberal ‘Abundance’ movement, meaning that my present response will more resemble an improvisational “Yes, And…” …”

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