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.
Carrying the Burden of Communist Man
Donald Parkinson, November 1, 2019
Donald Parkinson weighs in how communists should relate to our difficult history. We can neither be in denial of our failures or refuse to own up to them. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Historiography Wars: The French Revolution
Donald Parkinson, September 25, 2019
Historiographical debates around the French Revolution are ultimately political debates, not just debates about the facts. Donald Parkinson argues for revitalizing the tradition of the social historians against the new revisionist orthodoxy. Reading: Myk Labas. Read Article.
Neither Intersectionality nor Economism: For a Genuine Class Politics
Donald Parkinson, August 7, 2019
Neither a politics of identity informed by theories of intersectionality nor reductive economistic readings of Marxism are adequate for a modern socialist project, argues Donald Parkinson. Reading: Robert Fish. Read Article.