The Dialectics Of Stephen Jay Gould: Contingency, Convergence And Spandrels
Interview by Mitchell Thompson. University of Oregon Professor Richard York argues in his book, co-authored with Brett Clark, that Stephen Jay Gould is a crucial …
Articles
Obscured Accomplishments: Comments on James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
Brendan Campisi reviews historian Bryan D. Palmer’s most recent work on the life of U.S. left-wing stalwart and founding figure of the U.S. Trotskyist movement …
Rethinking Marxist Politics
Drawing from Gramscian and Althusserian approaches to pedagogy, Yanis Iqbal argues that a successful future for socialist politics must be based on a merger of …
Surge and Decline, Part 2: Course Correction
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, traces the roots of 9/11 and the “War on Terror” it justified all the way back to mid-century efforts …
Full Time: a Caustic Film About the Inhuman Face of Capitalism
Christos Kefalis, editor of the journal Marxist Thought, argues that French director Éric Gravel’s new film Full Time (French: Á plein temps) presents a remarkable cinematic social …
Putin and the Project of a Big Russian Nation
Translation by Alex Andreev. The original article can be found here. Translator’s Introduction One of the arguments in favor of the initiation of the military …
The Specificity of Anti-Imperialism
S. Hilgers examines the arguments of the two sides which have emerged on the Left regarding how to conceptualize anti-imperialism in the case of the …
The Long Crisis of Democracy
The following is an excerpted version of a piece authored by NYC-DSA members Marvin González and M. Fleischman in response to Warren Montag’s 2021 article “The …
We Will Return to Pandemic Protections Within a Year
William Silversmith, a member of the Central Jersey Democratic Socialists of America who has previously written on the scientific evidence for cognitive dysfunction in Long …
Running Aground: The RCP and Stalinism
Analyzing the intellectual output of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP), Doug Enaa Greene argues that, despite a few moments of minor insight, the Party …
Africa, a Health Crisis, and Intellectual Property: On decolonization and Intellectual Autonomy
Otobong Inieke lays out the obstacles facing the development of an independent and self-reliant African public health infrastructure. Free the Motherland (New Afrikan Black Panther …
The Rise and Fall of Homegrown American Marxism
Daniel Tutt explores the intellectual trajectory of U.S. Marxism during the era of the Second International and, drawing from Brian Lloyd’s work on the history …
Marx Did Not Invent Socialism, He Observed It
In part one of a series, Renato Flores reflects on the rise and fall of the base-building tendency. A common aphorism, purportedly from Kwame Ture, …
The Revolt of Hunger
Kaveh DadKhah calls for solidarity with the current wave of proletarian struggles in Iran. In the memory of Omid Soltani, the first martyr of the …