A Realistic Partyist Strategy: Electoral Strategy and Organized Labor
Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of Red Labor DSA challenge the “dirty break” strategy and introduce their “clean break” resolution. Fernand Léger, The Railway Crossing …
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Letter: “Lines of flight” for undeniable problems
We would like to thank comrade Luke Pickrell for considering our article relevant enough to write a response. This gives us the opportunity to contribute …
World Capitalist Accumulation and Sub-imperialism by Ruy Mauro Marini
Translation by Nathan Eisenberg and Renato Flores. Introduction Ruy Mauro Marini is a pillar of Latin American Marxism whose work, after half a century, has …
Letter: On Sortition and Democratic Decision-making
This letter is in response to Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation by the Cibcom Collective. I appreciated the comrades’ thought-provoking work and the opportunity to …
Marxism, Populism, and the Idea of the Commonwealth
CC contrasts the Narodnik and Russian Marxist views of society, arguing that the former movement developed a more dynamic theory capable of identifying the autonomy …
Abortion Access, a Luxury Jet, and Leaked State Secrets: Two Weeks in The Story of American “Democracy”
Luke Pickrell argues that recent political events in the U.S. reveal the necessity of the Marxist Unity Group’s ‘Winning the Battle for Democracy’ resolution for …
Trump, The Rule of Law, and The Ruling Class
Far from a straightforward defeat, Anton Johannsen argues that Donald Trump’s indictment promises an escalation of the bourgeoisie’s political meltdown in the United States.  …
Why Socialism?
Amanda Levi of the Polish organization Akcja Socjalistyczna and Jan Å»elazny put forward their conception of a socialist society. If you ask the average disengaged …
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx’s critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx’s offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. …
Atom Bombs, National Security, and Empire: Year Seventy-Eight of the Cold War
Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the …
Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation
The Cibcom Collective argues that Communist society will require an overcoming of political representation in favor of forms of direct democracy like sortition and referendum. …
Oswald Spengler: Philosopher of Decline, Partisan of Counterrevolution
ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis’ Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, finding an understanding of Spengler as a political agent who sought to put …
Letter: MUG and R&R’s Joint Resolutions for the 2023 DSA National Convention
Marxist Unity Group (MUG), in collaboration with Reform and Revolution (R&R), has created a set of resolutions for DSA’s 2023 National Convention in August. There …
Solidarity Sometimes: U.S. Organized Labor’s Cold War Policy in Central and South America
Hank Kennedy presents a historical overview of the reactionary Cold War international policy of the Meany/Kirkland era AFL-CIO, with a focus on its relations with …