Labor Notes and Labor’s Next Year
Leland Olds responds to the recent Labor Notes conference with an analysis of the current state of U.S. labor organizing and proposes a syncretic strategy …
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Left-Communism, Palestine, and National Liberation
RJ Park critiques the supposed “internationalism” of adherents of the left-communist tendency that reject support for Palestinian national liberation. By and large, Marxists around the …
The Modern Left and the New Right-Wing Radicalism
While right-wing radicalism has grown and taken on new forms, the left today remains stuck in illusions of liberal capitalism as the end of history. …
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None …
Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Abstract Negativity
Yanis Iqbal breaks down Slavoj Žižek’s philosophical narrative of abstract negativity, revealing it to be politically disabling and epistemologically reductive. Almandrade, The value and the …
Towards a Marxist Stance on Electoralism
Assessing the foundational Marxist canon and the contemporary US landscape, Bluebird argues for strategic participation in Bourgeois elections to advance a revolutionary agenda and the …
The Problem of Theory and Practice on the Left
Ayo Awujoola delineates the relationship between theory and practice, affirming Marxism as the key to the contemporary left’s ability to merge these elements into a …
History and Practice: Meditations Upon Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ and Pragmatic Materialism
Adeeb Kasem meditates on the implications of Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ and argues that historical and dialectical materialism form part of a broader pragmatic materialist …
Knowing the Enemy: On McManus’s The Political Right and Equality
Talal Hangari reviews ‘The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity’ by Matthew McManus (New York: Routledge, 2023). Introduction This slim …
Why Are They Like This?
With the 2024 elections in sight, Noah Emke argues that Democrats will always choose right-wing capital over left-wing workers, making the fight against Democratic fascist-enabling …
Surge and Decline, Part 4: Land of Opportunity — The War Path
In Part Four of his series Surge and Decline, Josh Messite assesses the aftermath of 9/11 and its connection to broader trends in US foreign …
A Call to All Socialists
Shuvu Bhattarai urges all socialists to endorse the People’s Conference for Palestine and help build a Mass Socialist Party. Protestors at the January 13 March …
The Struggle for Democracy in Ukraine: An Interview with Volodymyr Chemerys
Volodymyr Chemerys is a well-known political activist with left-wing, pacifist views. Born in the Sumska region of Ukraine, Chemerys, whose native language is Ukrainian, was …
DSA in Cuba: Refining Our International Strategy
Sid C. of Marxist Unity Group responds to Reform and Revolution’s Maria Franzblau’s “Cuba: Between Imperialism and Socialism” with both a defense and critique of …