Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and …
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Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults
Destructive cults are usually considered the domain of religious movements. The Left, however, has its own track record of cults. Gus Breslauer sympathetically examines this …
Without a party, we have nothing
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s Beginning’s of Politics: DSA and the Uprising, arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: …
Beginnings of Politics: DSA and the Uprising
Writing in August, Taylor B argues that we must look to new emancipatory forces arising in the current conjuncture instead of seeking to impose older …
Walter Polakov and the Hidden History of Socialist Scientific Management
 Walter Polakov had a combined passion for two seemingly contradictory ideas: scientific management and socialism. How did these two combine? Amelia Davenport interviews Diana Kelly, …
The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. Buy a print copy here. Karl Kautsky lived and wrote in a world and time when the growing organizational …
Popular Radicalism in the 1930s: The Forgotten History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
Chris Wright details the popular campaign for the Communist authored Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, a moment in US labor history that is overshadowed by Roosevelt’s …
Justice of the Inca by Tristan Marof
Translation and Introduction by Renato Flores. Tristan Marof was the pseudonym of Bolivian revolutionary Gustavo Adolfo Navarro. Navarro was born in Sucre in 1898. He …
Ending the Eternal Present: A Historical Materialist Account of the 1970s
The 1970s were a time of turmoil and transition. Connor Harney gives a Marxist account of this pivotal decade.  Nostalgia for the Past As …
Worse than Dead: A Critical Response to McKenzie Wark
James W reviews McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead. Nearly a year has passed since the publication of McKenzie Wark’s short book Capital is Dead: Is This …
The FARC: Between Past and Future
Today we have an interview with Yanis Iqbal, a student and freelance writer from Aligarh, India, who has written many articles on the topic of …
US Constitution: Hiding in Plain Sight
Daniel Lazare writes on the US Constitution, its inherent contradictions, and why socialists should oppose it. In order to theorize the United States, socialists must …
Henry Hale’s Theory of Patronal Politics: A Marxist Perspective
Daniel Weber argues for the critical appropriation of Henry Hale’s theory of patronal politics into a broader Marxist framework. Suppose you’re waiting at the DMV. …
Weaponized Words: The Language of Anti-Communism
Joshua Morris discusses the development and deployment of anti-communist rhetoric in the United States from the beginnings of the 20th Century to the early Cold …