On the Stalin Question
Parker McQueeney introduces two of Paul Costello’s essays on the topic of Stalin and Stalinism: Stalin and Historical Reality and Stalin and the Problem of …
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Democracy and Socialism, the Two Edges of Marxism’s Knife
Gil Schaeffer responds to Ben Grove’s “Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction” and its arguments about the need for a mass party, critiquing Mike Macnair, Ben …
Race, Class and the Zionist State
Gus Breslauer responds to Angry Workers of the World on the issue of Palestine and Zionism. There is no path “around” Intifada, the working class …
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde’s Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: …
Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. It’s October 1917 …
The Platform is the Message
Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own …
Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate
This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of …
Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Ben Grove lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Reading: Christian Cail. Cheer …
Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and …
Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults
Destructive cults are usually considered the domain of religious movements. The Left, however, has its own track record of cults. Gus Breslauer sympathetically examines this …
Without a party, we have nothing
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s Beginning’s of Politics: DSA and the Uprising, arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: …
Hold Your Fire!: A Warning to the Left
Daniel Newman urges patience and caution in the face of current political turmoil. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The deadliest …