Knowledge: Power and Emancipation
Renato Flores, January 3, 2020
Renato Flores discusses the privatization of scientific knowledge and examines efforts of revolutionary movements to democratize this knowledge to help develop a communist approach to science. Read Article.
Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
Donald Parkinson, December 28, 2019
Donald Parkinson takes issue with the calls for a "socially conservative leftism" that have increased in popularity since Jeremy Corbyn's defeat in the UK election. Reading: Matthew Strupp. Read Article.
"Anti-Marxism": Professor Mises as Theorist of Fascism by Fedor Kapelush
December 21, 2019
Introduction by N.R. Read Article.
Taking Stock: Rifles and Reforms
Hank Beecher, December 17, 2019
In part one of a three-part article, Hank Beecher aims to complicate the narratives set out by the electoral left that deny the possibility of revolution. Read Article.
Power as Savior and Destroyer of the World
Cold and Dark Stars, December 10, 2019
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. Economic laws are sold to us by those in power as natural laws beyond our own control rather than forms of class power that can be challenged and overcome. Read Article.
An Accumulation of Affect
Richard Hunsinger, December 7, 2019
Discourse related to the concept of emotional labor can highlight the way capitalism distorts our humanity or merely naturalize capitalism, argues Richard Hunsinger. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Ali Shariati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution
Lydia Apolinar, November 29, 2019
Lydia Apolinar writes on Ali Shariati and his use and misuse during the Iranian Revolution. Read Article.
'The United Front' by Jose Carlos Mariategui
Renato Flores, November 23, 2019
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores. Read Article.
Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods
Amelia Davenport, November 19, 2019
Amelia Davenport argues for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor's Scientific Management, making a broader argument for the relevance of cybernetics, cultural revolution in the workers' movement, and a Promethean vision of socialism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Listen to an interview with the author here. Read Article.
Revolutionary Reels: Soviet Propaganda Film and the Russian Revolution
Shalon Van Tine, November 15, 2019
Shalon Van Tine provides an overview of Soviet Film and its development in relation to the politics of the USSR and Bolshevik Revolution. Read Article.