COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Is the current legal definition of genocide useful for Marxists? Alyson Escalante unpacks the history behind the concept as it is currently understood and argues …
Audiobook of Lars Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context
This is a narration of Lars Lih’s excellent book Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context. Going against conventional wisdom, Lih presents a …
Capitalism, Socialism and Subsistence in Laos with Boike Rehbein
Rudy joins Boike Rehbein, author of Globalization, Society and Culture in Laos and Society in Contemporary Laos for a discussion on the past, present and future of the Lao …
The Worker and the Hydra: A Reply to Partisan Mag
The development of working-class consciousness requires more than struggles against the employer on the shopfloor, argues Marisa Miale. Reading: Mick Labas. The workplace is a …
The Class Struggle in Afghanistan and its Future
In light of the Taliban’s consolidation of power in response to U.S. withdrawal from the region, Rob Ashlar predicts not the foreclosure of class struggle …
Communism and the Disabled with Maddie and Jess
Rudy joins Maddie and Jess from Philly Socialists to discuss the politics of disability and its relationship with organizing. We discuss different models of disability …
On the Road to Power: A Conversation on Revolutionary Strategy in the USA
Katja and Jakob, based in Germany, have a discussion with our editor Alexander Gallus on a number of different issues, ranging from DSA and the Marxist …
Lifting the Double Burden: The Women’s Movement under State Socialism
Lydia, Agata, Anne and Rudy join for a discussion of Kristen Ghodsee’s Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. We …
Ten Theses on the Gender Question
Roxy Hall makes an intervention into debates around transgender issues, critiquing both trans liberalism and anti-trans radical feminism to stake out a position that seeks …
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem
The infamous Transformation Problem has long stood as a supposed example of the failure of Marx’s economic theories. Ian Wright gives an explanation of the …
Communists and the Miners’ Upsurge with Mike Ely
Rudy and Annie join Mike Ely, a veteran of the Revolutionary Union and the wildcat strike movement in the West Virginia coalfields of the 1970s. …
The Procedural is Political
Renato Flores argues for a culture shift around meeting procedures that takes into account differing backgrounds to make our organizing spaces more accessible to everyone …
Give the Platform Legs to Stand: The Case for CB8
Parker McQueeney writes in support of Constitution/Bylaw Amendment 8 (CB8) for the 2021 DSA Convention At this year’s convention, DSA will be debating a political …
Grenada: Volcanic Memories and Stone Legacies of Revolution with Shalini Puri
Isaac and Rudy join Shalini Puri, author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the companion website urgentmemory.com, for a …