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 …
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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 …
The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective
Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel …
Setting the Record Straight: On the Trotskyist-led 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, the Teamsters Bureaucracy & its Aftermath
Trotskyist Teamsters took a leading role in a historic labor upsurge and clashed with a corrupt leadership under Dan Tobin. Twenty-four-year Teamster Edgar Esquivel tells …
When We Fight, We Win!: For an Agitational Socialist Electoral Strategy
Jack L draws on recent campaigns in New York City to make the case for an agitational electoral strategy. NYC-DSA currently finds itself engaged in …
Outlines for a Marxist Virtue Ethics, or Why Capitalism is Unjust
Drawing on the work of moral and political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, ΔΜ sketches an outline for a possible marxist theory of ethics. ‘He wants more …
Smashing the White Picket Fence: Why the Left Rejects Homeownership
Harry Zehner urges the left to challenge the ideology of homeownership. “We want a nation of homeowners, not proletarians.” A few years ago, I stumbled …
The Machiavellian State, Fascism, and the Tribune of the Proletariat
Sam Thomas argues that Machiavelli can help us understand the bourgeois nature of fascism, and how anti-fascism must empower the proletariat. Reading: Sam Thomas. Why …
Critical Realism and the Return of Marxist Materialism
David M. Kutzik and Douglas V. Porpora explore the similarities and differences between two connected but separate schools of thought: Critical Realism and Marxism. For …
Legislative Campaigns and “Policy Feedback”: an Assessment of DSA’s Orientation Towards the Fight for Reforms
With a focus on the recent organizing work of New York City Democratic Socialists of America, Comrades Isaac KD and Jack L critique the notion …
Surge and Decline, Part 1: World Domination
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, begins his five-part series on US imperialists’ unsuccessful attempts to subjugate Afghanistan and secure their unrivaled position atop the …