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Europe’s Vassal Trap: New Empire, Old Dependencies; Old Empire, New Dependencies

While European leaders attempt to assert independence on the global stage, Elia El Khazen argues they only fall deeper into a "vassal trap" of energy and military dependence on a US hegemon that seeks to shift its own decline onto them.

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Social Democracy in the War by Karl Kautsky

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Chile’s Road from Revolt to Reaction: An Autopsy of the Boric Government

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization.

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Donald interviews C Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt, authors of "The People Are Not One" in the wake of their recent tour promoting their book.

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Israel's Lobby Under Review

Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over …

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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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Letter: DSA’s Leadership is Ideologically Unrepresentative

September 28, 2026

“Something I’ve found mysterious, since joining the Democratic Socialists of America, is that the national leadership seems wildly out of step with the membership as a whole. Admittedly, …”

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Letter: Science's Internal Dialectic

September 24, 2026

“"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we …”

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Letter: A Nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group

September 22, 2026

“The Democratic Socialists of America currently does not have a fully fledged program on artificial intelligence. What it does have is elements of an immediate program addressing AI, …”

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