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Heat and Light: A Critique of “Toward a Marxist State Theory of the Socialist Market Economy”

Ewan Tilley argues that Theryn Arnold's theory of "socialist state form" fails to answer core questions of class determination and therefore cannot provide adequate political answers regarding the People's Republic of China today.

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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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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"

Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals.

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Letter: Religion and Socialism

May 22, 2026

“In the last few years, I’ve been interested in learning more about religious tradition and historical materialism, two schools of thought which seem contradictory on a surface level. …”

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Letter: Why Solar Electrification Means an Energy Transition

May 18, 2026

“In their recent article Energy, Ecology, and the 'Transition': Why Logistics is a Class Question Foppe de Haan suggests that talk of an energy “transition” is a sort …”

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Letter: What is wrong with the U.S.-Israel relations?

May 9, 2026

“From all the countries in this world, there is one that maintains a relationship with the United States that is utterly unique. It is Israel. Pundits in the …”

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