How (Not) to Economically Plan in the Age of Climate Crisis
In his critical review of ‘Economic Planning in the Age of Climate Crisis,’ Renato Flores is left with more questions than satisfying answers from Cockshott …
The Mexican Dirty War: From Cárdenas to Zapatismo with Adela Cedillo
Rudy joins Adela Cedillo, co-editor of Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982, and author of several studies on the Mexican …
Letter: What Determines Wages?
In his recent article, Rob Ashlar draws on the work of Arghiri Emmanuel to rightly critique theories that attempt to justify wage differentials based on …
The Part-Time Fight for $25 at UPS and the Betrayal of TDU
With UPS and the Teamsters at the negotiating table, Edgar Esquivel takes issue with those in the US Left who have tailed the leadership of …
Letter: On CPUSA and “Socialism with American Characteristics”
As a CPUSA member, I appreciated the article “Socialism with American Characteristics.” The CPUSA program is worthy of critique. It is frustrating and unwieldy. It’s …
In Defense of Unequal Exchange: Critique of Paul Cockshott’s First Worldist Ignorance
Rob Ashlar offers a rebuttal to Paul Cockshott’s attack on the theory of unequal exchange. Wherever wages are high, universally throughout the whole world, it …
Letter: How the Working Class Finds Universality
Doug Lain, in his recent response to our ongoing discussion on the correct Marxist relationship to the existing bourgeois state and civil society, has doubled …
The World System and The Beautiful Game ⚽ with Sam Parry
Rudy and Djamil join Sam Parry, author of The Ugly Economics of the Beautiful Game for a discussion on how capitalism interacts with the sport …
Letter: The Universality of The Working Class
Reading Nicolas D Villarreal’s letter responding to my attempt to break the Marxist left from its lockstep march into irrelevance and/or complicity, I am reminded …
An Activists’ Guide to the Foreign Agents Registration Act
Steven De Castro raises the alarm about the weaponization of the Foreign Agents Registration Act against the left and provides advice on how to best …
Letter: On the Tribune of the Proletariat
Elaborating on the nature and necessity of a Socialist Republicanism is vital for our present movement. On this topic, Sam Thomas’s article “The Machiavellian State, …
Anti-Democratic All the Way Down: The Constitution, The Court, The University
Elia Newsom makes the case for socialist intervention in higher education. As the Supreme Court’s term comes to a close, the results of landmark cases …
Dueling Slogans
Henry De Groot argues against the “ultra-political” tendency that forefronts agitation for the democratic republic. On Absurdity I am grateful to Luke Pickrell’s engagement (“The …
Letter: Strike Ready vs Socialism
In 2021 the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), at their convention, passed “Resolution #5: Building Worker Power to Win Democratic Socialism: A Labor Strategy for …