The Elephant in the Room: Political Education on the UK Left
Working from a Freirean pedagogical perspective, Ewan Cameron assesses the state of political education in some of the major organizations of the contemporary UK Left. …
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Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future by Vasiliy Pikhorovich
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores. Translated from here. Introduction The waste inherent in capitalist production is obvious when we glance around: near-empty planes flying …
No End in Sight: On the War in Ukraine
Alexander Gallus pushes against the haze of propaganda to assess the current course of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Daily headlines over the past …
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Maxi Nieto critiques the perspectives of the “new democratic socialism” and argues they are based on a misunderstanding of capitalism as a structural totality. Introduction …
My Perspective on YDSA’s Red Hot Summer: Opening and First Sessions
Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) member AP reports on the opening and first sessions of YDSA’s Red Hot Summer organizer training. A YDSA Banner …
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 …
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 …