A True History of the IWW’s 'Little Red Songbook'; or, Why Do Socialists Struggle to Discuss Aesthetics?
Jackson Albert Mann, October 3, 2025
Jackson Albert Mann responds to recent, inaccurate commemorations of the IWW's Little Red Songbook with a meditation on the socialist movement's relationship to its artistic history and approach to aesthetic theory. Read Article.
Learning From Each Other’s Oppression: Latin American Revolutionary Nationalist Music in the Liner Notes of Paredon Records
Jackson Albert Mann, December 11, 2024
Jackson Albert Mann examines the debate that took place over nationalism, internationalism, and musical aesthetics in the liner notes to albums of Latin American revolutionary nationalist music released by US-based, left-wing record label, Paredon Records, between 1969 and 1985. Read Article.
The Foner Case: Thoughts in Response to the New Edition of 'The Case of Joe Hill'
Jackson Albert Mann, October 4, 2022
Jackson Albert Mann responds to International Publishers' new 2022 edition of Philip S. Foner's classic work, 'The Case of Joe Hill.' 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.