Letter: Responding to Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur
I appreciate Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur’s continued engagement with orthodox Marxism’s democratic republicanism and, as I’ve argued and they’ve disputed, its applicability to the …
Letters
Letter: Regarding MUG and the Democratic Republic
My thanks to Joseph P. for his intelligent reply to my article “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” …
Open Letter to Insurgent Notes
Dec. 30, 2023 On Feb. 5, 2017, Insurgent Notes, the only visible sign of anything resembling left communism in the United States, hosted an open …
Letter: Killing Marx on the Steps of Congress
Friends, It requires some mighty fine bait to lure a relatively quiet Marxist like myself out of my supposed ideological cave, but it seems that …
Letter: Why There Will be no Civil War in the USA
On the 24th of January, Governor Abbot of Texas issued an inflammatory statement mobilizing the National Guard to restrict migrants from entering the country, invoking …
Letter: The Barbarism is Already Here
This letter was written in response to Seth Baker’s letter, “Barbarism is the Biggest Concern for the 2024 Elections” which you can read here. For …
Letter: Barbarism Is the Biggest Concern for the 2024 Elections
For a long time, a phrase on the left has been socialism or barbarism. Sadly, as we look towards the presidential election, socialism doesn’t seem …
Letter: On Lazare’s Mischaracterization of the Gaza Crisis
Lazare’s most recent letter, being a response to a response, et cetera, is somewhat disjointed, and any attempt to follow its own train of logic …
Letter: Some Schemes Are Good
Comrade Bloom’s “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the dictatorship of the proletariat” makes the argument that the Marxist Unity Group has a …
Letter: Another Response to Ross
I was reasonably well disposed toward Peter Ross until I reached the part of his latest letter on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which he accuses …
Letter: Plant the Flag
I hope to convince others about the necessity of a democratic constitution based on one person, one equal vote. I’m confident that the election year …
Letter: On Academic Marxism, “The Masses,” and Bourgeois Nationalism
Dan Lazare sums up his analysis in the following words: “The international proletariat must defend Palestinians against the ravages of Israel, but at the same …
Letter: The Ghosts of Oradour-sur-Glane
Imagine if someone wrote a piece denouncing right-wing factions of the Maquis partisans after hearing about the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre or a screed denouncing the Yazidi …
Letter: Response to Steve Bloom
Comrade Bloom has written an interesting article, and I will do my best to address some of the points of contention he has offered. First, …