The Ballot Line is the Discipline
Omar Hegazy analyzes how the latest string of electoral victories for the DSA will heighten, not relieve, age-old tensions about its relationship with the Democratic Party.
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Diagnosing the Populist Impasse: On Varn and Tutt’s "The People are Not One"
Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime.
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June 25, 2026
We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?
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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.
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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Letter: Bigger Is Not Always Better
July 2, 2026
“Nicolas Villarreal’s response to my comments on his conception of growth and degrowth is very welcome, so I would be happy to continue this exchange here. First, I …”
Letter: Science and the Socialist Motive
June 30, 2026
“I will say, first of all, that comrade Donald Parkinson’s survey of l’affaire Rockhill is excellent, and a spur to no little professional jealousy on my part. He …”
Letter: Three Takeaways from our Fight for Marxist Politics in Socialist Alternative
June 28, 2026
“On June 25, I was expelled from Socialist Alternative (SAlt) in the US, along with about twenty other comrades. These expulsions are part of an ongoing effort to …”