Biden’s Passive Revolution: Using Gramsci to Understand Biden’s ‘Reformism’
Ashton Rome analyzes the Biden administration through the lens of Gramsci and his category of passive revolution. Though it appears that Biden has pulled off …
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Why Run Independents? A Response to Collective Power Network
Ben Grove responds to Brad C. of Collective Power Network, arguing that the time for independent politics is now. Why run independents? They usually lose. They …
Fianna Fáil: The Imperalist Party with an Anti-Imperialist Past
How did Fianna Fáil go from a party that opposed conciliatory treaties with British Imperialism to one that has sided with US imperialism? Sean Connolly …
Stalinist Cinema in Context: Ten Things You Might Miss Watching ‘The Fall of Berlin’
Sophia Homa provides some historical context for a classic Soviet film to celebrate the Nazi surrender in World War II. Today is the 9th of …
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: …
The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific?
Why is it that there exists a tendency in Marxism—itself a theory of change—that remains unchanging? Simoun Magsalin investigates. Perhaps some analogies are in order …
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management. Introduction In comrade Davenport’s Organizing For Power, she notes a central problem with …
Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon
Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster’s ecological Marx. There is a …
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav’s Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of …
What Remains
Taylor Thornburg offers a communist analysis of the internet and explores its different ideological uses. “What do people get wrong about drawing Pepe?” an interviewer …
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 Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)
First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 The significance of the Second International Conference of Women Socialists should not be judged by its depiction …
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 …