The Poverty of Terminology
Vilen Isteni provides a critical examination of the conceptual instability inherent in applying Western economic labels, such as “state capitalism,” to non-Western systems.
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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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We rejoin Charlie and Bryce for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference
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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.
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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Letters: The Theses That Eat Themselves
June 9, 2026
“Withers is more honest than most DSA strategy documents, but this creates a problem. He lists programmatic unity, non-reformist reforms, the rank-and-file strategy, red unions, Panther-model mutual aid, …”
Letter: Socialist Integrity and the Pigs
June 5, 2026
““Here lies the heart of the authoritarian dimension of neoliberal politics: the structure of the state may vary, the political personnel and its behaviour too, what is essential …”
Letter: Anti-AI Manifesto
June 3, 2026
“About a month ago, I finished writing a work titled “The Anti-AI Manifesto.”I have published it in two versions, a complete version that is some sixteen thousand words …”