Cop City will never be built with Kei and Leila
Isaac joins Kei and Leila from Stop Cop City/Defend Atlanta Forest for a discussion on the movement, its strategy and its ultimate goals. They discuss …
Letter: Response to Red Labor
Comrades Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc are correct when they charge DSA debates around the ‘party question’ with being couched in abstract and vague terms. …
There Is Never One Lamb Alone: On Finding Unity in Diversity
Splits and purges are no solution to the problem of disagreement in the socialist movement. Marisa Miale calls for unity in diversity in the context …
Letter: Time for a Plan B?
I would like to thank Shuvu Bhattarai for the intelligent and informative article, “Unite the Pro-Party Wing to Revolutionize the DSA!” (March 3, 2023). As …
Socializing Care: Against Domestic Realism
The Cibcom Collective take aim at domestic realism, arguing that feminist planning of the domestic economy is necessary to the communist project. This is a …
Entropy and the Capitalist System with Robert Biel
Rudy joins Robert Biel, author of The Entropy of Capitalism, The New Imperialism and Sustainable Food Systems for a discussion on systems approaches to analyzing …
Letter: Words Won’t Slay The Hydra of Capitalism
56 citations into Luke Pickrell’s article Marxism and the Democratic Republic and I am still scratching my head. MUG has done a fantastic job of …
Marxism and the Democratic Republic
Luke Pickrell of Marxist Unity Group emphasizes the centrality of radical democracy to the communist project and reintroduces the construction of the democratic republic as …
Letter: Gun Reform and Revolutionary Violence
I’m writing this in response to conversations happening among leftists on whether or not to support common-sense gun reform in the United States. I also …
Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization with Rodrigo Nunes
Rudy and Harry join Rodrigo Nunes, author of Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization for a discussion on Rodrigo’s approach to thinking …
The Protagonism of Tenants
Comrade Holden of Marxist Unity Group deconstructs the question of the “housing crisis” in New York City through questions about power, protagonism and agency, and …
On the Class Point of View and the Rule of Law
Gil Schaeffer responds to Anton Johannsen, arguing that socialists cannot be indifferent to the principle of equality under law. Anton Johannsen’s Trump, the Rule of …
Review: Class Struggle Unionism
Henry De Groot offers a critical analysis of Joe Burns’ ‘Class Struggle Unionism,’ available via Haymarket Books. The boss needs you, you don’t need him!, …
Letter: The Dirty Break is the Truly Realistic Strategy
In “A Realistic Partyist Strategy: Electoral Strategy and Organized Labor,” Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of Red Labor DSA call for a ‘clean break’ with …