Profits Beyond Reason and Reason Beyond Profits
Is the economic calculation problem a valid argument against planned economies? Max Black argues that this so-called problem is based on flawed reasoning and that …
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LaRouche: A Warning For Us All
Donald Parkinson argues the seeds of what Lyndon LaRouche would become were present from the very beginnings of his organization in this analysis of the …
Opposition to Unity and Unity of Opposition: Spain and the POUM
The experience of the POUM in Spain demonstrates the importance of Marxist unity and the dangers of Popular Fronts, writes Finlay Gilmour. “It is the …
New Perspectives On Popular Struggle in Venezuela Against Intervention
Our comrade from Venezuela provides us with another dispatch, giving a strategic view on the situation arguing that a defensive war against imperialism must be …
Building Camaraderie in the CPUSA, 1930-1950
Josh Morris investigates how the Communist Party USA created a sense of camaraderie in its organizing efforts between members, looking at how both circumstances forced …
The Democratic Bolshevik
Alexander Gallus reviews Ilona DuczyÅ„ska’s German language book ‘The Democratic Bolshevik’ which explores the socialist experiment of Red Vienna and its failure to defend itself …
No Bernie
One of the major political questions facing the Democratic Socialists of America in the near future is how to relate to Bernie Sanders’ recently announced …
Early American Socialism and the Poverty of Colorblind Marxism
The history of early American Marxism is one of a failed colorblind politics that was incapable of organizing the proletariat in post-Reconstruction United States, argues …
A Left-Wing History of the Republican Party
Radical Republicanism was a predecessor to Marxism in the United States with its critiques of slavery and wage labor. M.A. Iasilli takes a look at its …
Envisioning a Revolutionary Food System
For the revolution to win, it must feed the people. Gringo Campesino argues for a vision of what this may look like. We publish not …
Communists and the Unions in the 21st Century
Communists must take a leading role in rebuilding the labor movement and fighting against anti-union laws like Taft-Hartley, argues Anton Johannsen. There is a continuum …
Making State Theory Revolutionary
State theory must move beyond questions of methodology and move into deeper political questions such as the political form of a workers regime, argues Donald …
The Scam of Representation: Dispatch from Venezuela
By publishing this statement from an anonymous Venezuelan citizen, we aim to provide a counter to the narrative that the US-backed Guiado coup is a …
The Solution of Bukharin by Amadeo Bordiga
Translation of and introduction to Amadeo Bordiga’s “The Solution of Bukharin” by Leon Thalheimer. Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin persists as a somewhat elusive character in the …