The Democratic Road to Socialism: Reply to Mike Taber
Eric Blanc, April 11, 2019
Eric Blanc replies to Mike Taber's article Lenin, Kautsky and the Transition to Socialism and argues that the work of Karl Kautsky provides a strategy for a democratic road to socialism. Read Donald Parkinson's response here. Read Article.
Kautsky, Lenin, and the Transition to Socialism: A Reply to Eric Blanc
Mike Taber, April 10, 2019
Mike Taber weighs in on the Kautsky debate happening at Jacobin Magazine, responding to Eric Blanc's text Why Kautsky Was Right (and why you should care). Taber sets the record straight on Kautsky's strengths and weaknesses and Blanc's uncharitable reading of Leninism. Read Article.
Michael Harrington and His Afterlives
Doug Enaa Greene, April 8, 2019
Doug Enaa Greene gives an overview and critique of the political journey of Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialist of America, and his influence on reformist socialism to this day. Read Article.
Gracchus Babeuf: From Jacobin to Communist
Matthew Strupp, April 5, 2019
Matthew Strupp looks at the transformation of the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf from Feudiste to Jacobin to one of the first Revolutionary Communists. Read Article.
No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution
Gabriel Radic, April 1, 2019
Gabriel Radic argues that various attempts in academia to develop theories of revolution as alternatives to Marx's theory of revolution and historical materialism only serve to disguise the centrality of class contradiction in these events. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
What's At Stake in the Democratic Socialists of America?
Jean Allen, March 28, 2019
Jean Allen discusses the factional infighting in the DSA and it what it says about the organization at large. Read Article.
Profits Beyond Reason and Reason Beyond Profits
Max Black, March 23, 2019
Is the economic calculation problem a valid argument against planned economies? Max Black argues that this so-called problem is based on flawed reasoning and that a world beyond markets is possible. Reading: Robert Fisher. Read Article.
LaRouche: A Warning For Us All
Donald Parkinson, March 19, 2019
Donald Parkinson argues the seeds of what Lyndon LaRouche would become were present from the very beginnings of his organization in this analysis of the early days of his career. Read Article.
Opposition to Unity and Unity of Opposition: Spain and the POUM
March 14, 2019
The experience of the POUM in Spain demonstrates the importance of Marxist unity and the dangers of Popular Fronts, writes Finlay Gilmour. Read Article.
New Perspectives On Popular Struggle in Venezuela Against Intervention
March 6, 2019
Our comrade from Venezuela provides us with another dispatch, giving a strategic view on the situation arguing that a defensive war against imperialism must be transformed into a People's War that changes the nature of society itself in a radical way, furthering the most radical aspects of the Bolivarian Revolution. Read Article.