Missing Victory? Blanqui and the Paris Commune
Louis August Blanqui was a key revolutionary leader in the French Socialist movement. Yet when the Paris Commune erupted in 1871, Blanqui was in prison, …
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The USSR’s Founding Mother
M.A. Iasilli on what Bolshevik militant Nadezhda Krupskaya can teach us about education and labor. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Since researching the stages of national development …
Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman’s ‘Direct Action’
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman’s Direct Action, a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left …
How to Play with Fire: Electoral Politics in the Heart of Empire
Ira Pollock examines the difficulties of left electoral strategy regarding the question of imperialism and affirms the importance of upholding strong anti-imperialist principles in electoral …
Conciliation and Insurrection in Bavaria 1918–19 (Part 1)
What political lessons can be learned from the failed Bavarian Soviet Republic? Alexander Gallus takes a deep dive into the history of this famous moment …
Historical Narratives of the Red Terror
Donald Parkinson dives into the historiography of the Russian Revolution and argues that the Red Terror was not an ideological outgrowth of communist ideals. Rather, …
Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century
Stani Bjegunac takes a look at different approaches to the national question by historical communists and how we may approach issues of national oppression in …
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
Rosa Janis takes on all the different tendencies of the intellectual fad of ‘Accelerationism’ and reveals the poverty of their visions of a better future …
The Conquest of Ballots
Ben Grove lays out a vision of socialist electoral strategy. In January 2018, the Democratic Socialists of America adopted an ambitious new electoral strategy. It …
Why Have a Political Program?
Parker McQueeney lays out the case for building a party around a minimum-maximum program. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Every party pursues definite aims, whether it be a …
Where Does Power Come From?
What is power and how do we build it? Amelia Davenport argues that power must be built through the organization of mass communist institutions independent of the …