Lenin on Liberty
Western historiography has long dismissed Lenin’s arguments for political liberty as calculated deception. Kevin Naughton looks to dissenting historical scholarship to correct the record.
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Garrisoning White Power
Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation.
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Aaron Leonard and Donald Parkinson sit down for a conversation on Leonard's recent book 'Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
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“Black Marxism” Under Debate, 40 Years On
Forty years after his first response to Cedric Robinson, August Nimtz's "Black Marxism": A Marxist Critique revisits a debate about the relations between race, class, and Marxism that remains as pertinent as ever. Gary Levi puts the collection under review.
A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World
Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."
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Letter: Anticipation of Criticism
August 22, 2026
“In my last piece, I formulated and criticized Geese’s peculiar form of idealism, which I dubbed “pragmatic idealism,” i.e., idealism about practice, the belief that everything is human …”
Letter: Clarifications on Peirce
August 16, 2026
“I recently read your article criticizing Geese Magazine, and while I am grateful that someone has finally decided to criticize them for their (as you say) "pragmatist idealism," …”
Letter: The American Communist Party isn't Communist
August 12, 2026
“Democratic Socialism has grown rapidly as an ideology over the last decade, yet Communist-labeled politics in the United States fall out of the current framing of the Overton …”