Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Second International
Karl Marx’s own ambiguous and sometimes contradictory views on colonialism meant that the Second International would debate over the correct view on the matter. Donald …
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Freedom in Death: Liberalism and the Apocalypse
Medway Baker calls for uncompromising faith in the cause of communism in the face of a capitalist civilization that is destroying humanity. Hurricanes ravage shores …
The Invisible Landscape: Tracing the Spiritualist Utopianism of Nineteenth-Century America
Edmund Berger explores the hidden history of Utopian Socialism and its close relationship with cultures of esoteric spirituality in the nineteenth-century United States. Take the …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
Join the Struggle at Amazon!
Committed revolutionaries: get a job at Amazon and help us build working-class power! A global crisis is unfolding and the left must seize the moment. …
On the actuality of Spinoza by Jørgen Sandemose
Presented here is a lecture by Jørgen Sandemose on Spinoza that is also a critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire. Sandemose died last …
The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism
Debs Bruno and Medway Baker lay out the conditions of the current crisis, the political potentials it opens up, and the need for a socialist …
Terrestrial Shamanism against the Exterminist Leviathan
Renato Flores argues that a grand narrative is needed to unify and mobilize the exploited and oppressed against an exterminist world order. I The permanent …
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by …
Crossing the Line: Habitus and Misrecognition in Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite
K.T. Jamieson analyzes the dynamics of class in Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory. Contains spoilers. At the 92nd Annual …
The Situation in India and How it Has Gotten Here
Statement by By Zenab Ahmed, Rohith Krishnan, and Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina on the pogrom in India. The Pogrom Last week, Hindu nationalist mobs spent days ripping …
Between Friend and Foe: The Democratic Party Primary and the Future of the Empire
Rosa Janis analyzes the Democratic Party Primary election as the symptoms of a dying empire that couldn’t die quite soon enough. With the Democratic Party …
The Need for Organizations that Organize
Ben Reynolds responds to Chris Koch’s The Need for Agitational Organizations. In a recent article titled ‘The Need for Agitational Organization’ Chris Koch argues that …
The Need for Agitational Organizations
Chris Koch argues that the current ailments of the modern left are a product of its class composition. To escape this predicament we must master …