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Why Socialists Must be Abolitionists: Challenging Carcerality in Socialist Spaces
Simoun Magsalin, February 5, 2025
The socialist movement must oppose the carceral institutions and logic deployed by the ruling class and the left alike for the repression of the working class. As an alternative, Simoun Magsalin makes the case for abolition communism.
The Adolescence of a Concept: “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” in Karl Kautsky’s Revolutionary Writings
Ian Szabo, January 29, 2025
Karl Kautsky’s writings on the dictatorship of the proletariat serve as a waypoint between Marx and Lenin, Ian Szabo argues in an analysis of Kautsky’s democratic-republican, revolutionary Marxist political ideas.
The MDC DSA Steering Committee’s Kangaroo Court
Alicent Muning, January 22, 2025
Alicent Muning investigates the leadership practices of the Metro DC DSA’s outgoing steering committee, uncovering a long history of undemocratic behavior and abuses of power. Read Article.
The Socialist Party of America's Constitutional Critique
Luke Pickrell, January 17, 2025
Luke Pickrell covers the emergence of constitutional criticism among US left-wing organizations at the turn of the 20th century, highlighting the democratic republicanism of those critiques found within the early Socialist Party of America. Read Article.
Circuit Breakers: Profit, Bubbles, Crisis, and Chokepoints in the Tech Economy
Gary Levi, January 15, 2025
Gary Levi analyzes the nature of speculative investment bubbles in the tech industry and conjectures on the likely direction that labor struggles will take in response to the coming crash of the AI frenzy. Read Article.
The Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Owen Schalk, January 8, 2025
Owen Schalk covers the history of the Canadian state's repression of Palestine solidarity activism both before and after October 7, 2023. Read Article.
Butler on the Paris Commune
Kyle A. Edwards, January 3, 2025
Kyle A. Edwards introduces this republication of General Benjamin Butler's remarks on the Paris Commune by highlighting the contemporary necessity for a mass independent workers' movement. Read Article.
Teaching Liberation: The Rhetoric & Writing of Socialism
Elia Newsom, December 27, 2024
Elia Newsom reflects on the struggles and successes they experienced teaching a university course on socialism during the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Colorado Boulder. Read Article.
Birth of a Bonaparte?: Trump and the End of US Bourgeois Democracy
Bluebird, December 20, 2024
Bluebird argues that Donald Trump’s recent presidential victory has planted the seeds of a Bonapartist state and, as a result, the end of US bourgeois democracy may be in sight. Read Article.
Learning From Each Other’s Oppression: Latin American Revolutionary Nationalist Music in the Liner Notes of Paredon Records
Jackson Albert Mann, December 11, 2024
Jackson Albert Mann examines the debate that took place over nationalism, internationalism, and musical aesthetics in the liner notes to albums of Latin American revolutionary nationalist music released by US-based, left-wing record label, Paredon Records, between 1969 and 1985. Read Article.