Articles

Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon

Ivan Emil A. Labayne, April 16, 2021

Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster's ecological Marx. Read Article.

Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World

Connor Harney, April 7, 2021

Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav's Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of automation and capitalism are commonplace and visions of an emancipatory communist future are far and few between. Read Article.

What Remains

Taylor Thornburg, March 31, 2021

Taylor Thornburg offers a communist analysis of the internet and explores its different ideological uses. Read Article.

Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!

Ben Grove, March 25, 2021

Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.

The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)

March 8, 2021

First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 Read Article.

The Platform is the Message

Renato Flores, March 6, 2021

Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own approach to social media that takes into account the values encoded into tech platforms. Read Article.

Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate

March 3, 2021

This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of fostering democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists in DSA around a vision of a mass socialist party. The proposals can be read and signed here. Reading: Matt Strupp. Read Article.