Africa, a Health Crisis, and Intellectual Property: On decolonization and Intellectual Autonomy
Otobong Inieke, May 31, 2022
Otobong Inieke lays out the obstacles facing the development of an independent and self-reliant African public health infrastructure. Read Article.
The Rise and Fall of Homegrown American Marxism
Daniel Tutt, May 27, 2022
Daniel Tutt explores the intellectual trajectory of U.S. Marxism during the era of the Second International and, drawing from Brian Lloyd's work on the history of U.S. radicalism, argues that the influence of Veblenian and pragmatist philosophy had a detrimental effect on the development of U.S. Marxist theory. Tutt, who has taught philosophy at George Washington University and Marymount University, is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family and an organizer of the Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is currently at work on a new Marxist critique of Nietzsche for Repeater Books. Read Article.
Marx Did Not Invent Socialism, He Observed It
Renato Flores, May 23, 2022
In part one of a series, Renato Flores reflects on the rise and fall of the base-building tendency. Read Article.
The Revolt of Hunger
Kaveh DadKhah, May 19, 2022
Kaveh DadKhah calls for solidarity with the current wave of proletarian struggles in Iran. Read Article.
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Jackson Albert Mann, May 17, 2022
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert's Dune franchise. Read Article.
Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Edgar Esquivel, May 15, 2022
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells the story. Read Article.
When We Fight, We Win!: For an Agitational Socialist Electoral Strategy
Jack L, May 11, 2022
Jack L draws on recent campaigns in New York City to make the case for an agitational electoral strategy. Read Article.
Outlines for a Marxist Virtue Ethics, or Why Capitalism is Unjust
May 9, 2022
Drawing on the work of moral and political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, ΔΜ sketches an outline for a possible marxist theory of ethics. Read Article.
Smashing the White Picket Fence: Why the Left Rejects Homeownership
Harry Zehner, May 2, 2022
Harry Zehner urges the left to challenge the ideology of homeownership. Read Article.
The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat
Sam Thomas, April 29, 2022
Sam Thomas argues that Machiavelli can help us understand the bourgeois nature of fascism, and how anti-fascism must empower the proletariat. Reading: Sam Thomas. Read Article.