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Just Say No: Avoiding an AOC 2029 Disaster

Is a DSA-backed AOC presidency in 2029 possible? Noah Emke says yes; it will also be a disaster for a nascent socialist movement unprepared for national power and wedded to a project of managed imperial decline.

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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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We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?

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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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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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Letter: Marxist State Theory Didn't End With Lenin

July 15, 2026

“It appears my recent article in this magazine has ruffled the feathers of those who wish to, on the one hand, vulgarize and flatten the work of Lenin, …”

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Letter: Anti-AOC

July 13, 2026

“Once again, the election. It is always an election year, for some. Most recently, members of the DSA have been battling over the exact form that a presidential …”

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Letter: Un-Comradely Love at Jacobin Magazine

July 11, 2026

“In an article titled Romantic Love and Family Are Not the Enemy, which involved a discussion between Jacobin editor Meagan Day and Swedish gender studies academic Evalina Johansson …”

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