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 …
Articles
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 …
Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson’s Without a Party, We Have Nothing. When replying to …
Discovering the Cybernetic Brain
Amelia Davenport interviews philosopher of science and historian of cybernetics Andrew Pickering. We live in a society without a future. Fewer people than ever believe …
Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain
Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the …
Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense
Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott …
Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky
In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin’s views regarding art. This text was …
Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
The Mass Line as an Emancipatory Politics
Cam W responds to the recent debate between Taylor B and Donald Parkinson, outlining a Maoist approach to politics based on the mass line as …
The Founding of the Haitian Communist Party
Translation and introduction by Matthew Strupp. The following text is a translation of sections from Schematic Analysis 1932-1934, the founding document of the original Haitian …