Building the Mass Party: The Merger Formula in the American Context
Rosa Janis, December 9, 2018
What will it take to build a mass socialist party in the United States? Rosa Janis argues that socialist think-tanks may be a necessary first step, as well as a movement to reform electoral and labor laws through "anti-entryist" candidates. Read Article.
How Empires Die
Rosa Janis, October 26, 2018
Rosa Janis argues for a theory of crisis and social decay that uses elements of Marx's Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall as well as the concept of fragility. Crisis must be understood as something not simply occurring in the economy, but the entire society as a whole. Yet the question remains whether an emancipatory politics can emerge from the stagnation and decay of civilization. Read Article.
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
Rosa Janis, September 15, 2018
Rosa Janis takes on all the different tendencies of the intellectual fad of 'Accelerationism' and reveals the poverty of their visions of a better future and contradictory beliefs. An emancipatory movement must develop a vision of a better future without internalizing the logic of capitalism. Read Article.