“Taylor’s System and Organization” by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Translation by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Renato Flores. Nadezhda Krupskaya is unfairly remembered by the identity of her husband. A glance at her page in …
Articles
Economic Circulations: Blood-Based Systems of Value in Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star
Virginia L. Conn discusses the nature of blood exchange as a basis for collectivism in Alexander Bogdanov sci-fi masterpiece Red Star. IN his pre-revolutionary novel …
Taking Stock: Electoralism vs The Capitalist Arsenal
In Part Two of his analysis of strategy for the modern-day left Hank Beecher takes a look at three recent case studies and tries to …
Beyond Denial and Abstinence: How Climate Change Can Bring Us A Better World
Colin Drumm’s “Beyond Denial and Abstinence” argues that we should define economic growth in terms of meeting human needs, as opposed to the prevailing definition …
Fragment on War, National Questions and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Original article can be found here. Introduction It has long become a truism that Marxism failed to grasp the …
The Origin of the Split and the Reconstruction of Unity by Karl Kilbom
Introduction and translation by Tom Anderson. Original article can be found here. The following text was written by Karl Kilbom in 1938 after he had …
On Hasidic Jews, Anti-Semitism and Non-Profits
In light of recent antisemitic attacks, Lane Silberstein gives perspective on political divisions and class contradictions within the Jewish community, particularly Hasidic Jews. Amid the …
Knowledge: Power and Emancipation
Renato Flores discusses the privatization of scientific knowledge and examines efforts of revolutionary movements to democratize this knowledge to help develop a communist approach to …
Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
Donald Parkinson takes issue with the calls for a “socially conservative leftism” that have increased in popularity since Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat in the UK election. Reading: …
“Anti-Marxism”: Professor Mises as Theorist of Fascism by Fedor Kapelush
Introduction by N.R. Ludwig von Mises opens his 1925 article “Anti-Marxism” by stating that “In postwar Germany and Austria, a movement has been steadily gaining …
Taking Stock: Rifles and Reforms
In part one of a three-part article, Hank Beecher aims to complicate the narratives set out by the electoral left that deny the possibility of …
Power as Savior and Destroyer of the World
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. Economic laws are sold to us by those in power as natural laws beyond our own control rather than …
An Accumulation of Affect
Discourse related to the concept of emotional labor can highlight the way capitalism distorts our humanity or merely naturalize capitalism, argues Richard Hunsinger. Reading: Cliff …
Ali Shariati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution
Lydia Apolinar writes on Ali Shariati and his use and misuse during the Iranian Revolution. One of Ali Shariati’s principal influences, Frantz Fanon, once wrote …