New Life for the Old Lenin
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly’s remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin’s political legacy. After reading and reviewing Paul Le Blanc’s excellent new book …
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On Capitalism and Class Rule: Moving Beyond the “PMC Debate”
Using recent debates over the role of the professional managerial class as a foil, Foppe de Haan argues that in order for the communist movement …
Marx, Faraday, and the Spectral Objectivity of Value
What can Victorian table-turning tell us about Marx’s theory of value? Ian Wright investigates. The “Gypsy” Table In the early 1980s, my grandparents lived in …
End of the Line
Javier Clark illustrates the contemporary social production of “non-subjects” and the conditions under which they evade traditional revolutionary formulae. Not even a dry statistic can …
Monotheism and Struggle: The Story of Iraqi Insurgency (2003-04)
In the first of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar surveys the history of Iraqi Insurgency from 1990 to 2004. Author’s Note: Page numbers in each …
Sean O’Brien’s Pro-Business Unionism
Edgar Esquivel tells the story of how Sean O’Brien failed to end the Teamsters’ love affair with UPS. On July 25th, in an unprecedented turn …
Blue Star Over Chicago
MUG Members Aliyah VanPelt & Luke Pickrell reflect on the 2023 DSA Convention. Marxist Unity Group members pose for a group photo in front of …
Marxist Unity Group Debate On The “Democratic Republic”
The following three short articles by Luke Pickrell, Edward Varda, and Gil Schaeffer represent a recent debate on the democratic republic, political agitation, the minimum-maximum …
A Tale of Two Resolutions: Why is TDU So Hostile to Anti-War Activism?
Joe Allen covers the recent Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) convention, from which Teamsters Mobilize member Audrey Johnson was banned as a result of …
The Struggle for a “Democratic Socialist Republic” and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Steve Bloom identifies and critiques a ‘schematism’ he believes is implicit in the programmatic and theoretical documents of the Marxist Unity Group. Introduction The Marxist …
On the Crisis in the International Marxist Tendency
Stephen Owens elucidates the conditions of his departure from Socialist Appeal, the British section of the International Marxist Tendency, revealing the pitfalls of building insular, …
For a Socialist Party, not a Progressive Ecosystem
Drawing from recent experiences in the Cleveland Left, Alek Nielsen argues that the DSA must make a decisive break from a progressive ecosystem model of …
The Long Night for DSA
Steven De Castro analyzes the Democratic Socialists of America’s response to recent events in Palestine, as well as the generational politics at work within the …
It’s Time to Face the Facts: Zionism is Inherently Anti-Semitic
Leon Lorraine insists that the decolonization of Israel is the essential demand amidst the global rise of antisemitism. 300 Jewish activists arrested at anti-war protest …