Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
Before the rise of the Soviet Space Program, utopian visions of space travel existed alongside serious scientific work to make it a reality. Donald Parkinson …
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The Winnipeg General Strike: from Revolt to Revolution?
Medway Baker analyzes the Winnipeg General Strike, possibly the height of class struggle in Canada, for its centennial. Today marks the hundred-year anniversary of the …
Leon Trotsky and Cultural Revolution
Doug Enaa Greene argues that in Trotsky’s work a theory of cultural revolution can be found, one which differs from Mao Zedong’s that was developed …
The Retrograde Left
J.R. Murray argues that the left must abandon the micro-sect form of organization derived from a false reading of the true meaning of Bolshevism, or …
‘Is Marxism Obsolete?’ by Charles Rappoport
Introduction and translation by Medway Baker. Since the fall of the USSR and the definitive failure of the Russian Revolution, many among the left have …
In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina examines the labor theory of value and references philosophy of science to defend it from critics. Features a reading guide to works on …
Strasserism vs “Strasserism”: Turning Over the Right Rocks
With Strasserism becoming a common accusation made towards various political trends on the left, K. T. Jamieson makes a historical investigation of Strasserism and its …
Revolution or the Democratic Road to Socialism? A Reply to Eric Blanc
Donald Parkinson responds to Eric Blanc’s latest take in the Kautsky debate, critiquing his strategy of a democratic road to socialism. The recent debate hosted …
The Democratic Road to Socialism: Reply to Mike Taber
Eric Blanc replies to Mike Taber’s article Lenin, Kautsky and the Transition to Socialism and argues that the work of Karl Kautsky provides a strategy …
Kautsky, Lenin, and the Transition to Socialism: A Reply to Eric Blanc
Mike Taber weighs in on the Kautsky debate happening at Jacobin Magazine, responding to Eric Blanc’s text Why Kautsky Was Right (and why you should …
Michael Harrington and His Afterlives
Doug Enaa Greene gives an overview and critique of the political journey of Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialist of America, and his influence …
Gracchus Babeuf: From Jacobin to Communist
Matthew Strupp looks at the transformation of the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf from Feudiste to Jacobin to one of the first Revolutionary Communists. “The French …
No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution
Gabriel Radic argues that various attempts in academia to develop theories of revolution as alternatives to Marx’s theory of revolution and historical materialism only serve …
What’s At Stake in the Democratic Socialists of America?
Jean Allen discusses the factional infighting in the DSA and it what it says about the organization at large. On Friday February 8 the steering …