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 …
Articles
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 …
‘The United Front’ by Jose Carlos Mariategui
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores. Jose Carlos Mariategui was a Peruvian Marxist, who became the founder of the precursor to the Peruvian Communist Party. …
Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods
Amelia Davenport argues for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor’s Scientific Management, making a broader argument for the relevance of cybernetics, cultural revolution …
Revolutionary Reels: Soviet Propaganda Film and the Russian Revolution
Shalon Van Tine provides an overview of Soviet Film and its development in relation to the politics of the USSR and Bolshevik Revolution. The Rise …
Remembering Noel Ignatiev
Gus Breslauer commemorates Noel Ignatiev, a communist and race abolitionist who died this month while leaving behind a legacy that should serve as an inspiration …
Which Side Are You On?: The Challenge of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
The Ethiopian Revolution teaches modern leftists an important lesson about international solidarity, argues Ian Scott Horst. Way back in 1848, the young Karl Marx and …
Carrying the Burden of Communist Man
Donald Parkinson weighs in how communists should relate to our difficult history. We can neither be in denial of our failures or refuse to own …
“How Wearisome Eternity”: A review of ‘Capital is Dead’ by McKenzie Wark
Colin Drumm reviews McKenzie Wark’s latest book, ‘Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse’ (Verso Books, October 2019). “How wearisome / Eternity so spent in …