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 …
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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 …
“Socially Organized Society: Socialist Society” by Alexander Bogdanov
Introduction by Amelia Davenport. From A Short Course of Economic Science. What is Socialism? Is it the abolition of the state, the abolition of Value …
Criticism and Self-Criticism: Red Guards or Iron Guards?
As socialists, we need to have each other’s backs. We all have our differences and they are often of a serious nature. Yet in the …
Reparations and Self-Determination: Loosening the Black-Belt
Renato Flores argues for self-determination and reparations for Black Americans as a key part of the revolutionary struggle in the USA. Reading: Robert Fish. I …
For the Unity of Marxists with the Dispossessed: The Bolsheviks and the State, 1912-1917
A reply by Medway Baker to Sophia Burns’ article For the Unity of Marxists, or the Unity of the Dispossessed?. In a previous article, Comrade …
Incels, Housewives, and the Workers’ Republic
Rosa Janis responds to Amber A’Lee Frost’s recent article “Andrew Yang and the Failson Mystique,” arguing for a socialist vision that looks beyond UBI liberalism …