Jean Allen

One of many contributors writing for Cosmonaut Magazine.

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Constructive Criticism: The Dialectics of Unity & Struggle

Jean Allen, July 17, 2022

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The Collective Mind

Jean Allen, April 22, 2021

Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management.[note]This was written before Davenport's Materialist History or Critical History? for the ebook From Tide to Wave: Base Building and Communist Politics. - Editor[/note] Read Article.

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A Critical History of Management Thought

Jean Allen, May 8, 2020

Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan Witzel’s A History Of Management Thought. Read Article.

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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.

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Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of 'Inventing the Future'

Jean Allen, November 1, 2018

Jean Allen reviews Srnicek & Williams' 'Inventing the Future,' which calls for an intellectual counter-hegemony to neoliberalism. Does this proposal for counter-hegemonic institutions really put anything new on the table, or just reflect the prevailing organizational norms of the existing left? Read Article.