Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen’s A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Before diving into the substance of this …
An X-Ray of the Yugoslav Experiment in Self-Management
For the latest episode of our series on Actually Existing Socialism, Christian, Rudy, Donald, and Connor join forces for a discussion on the Yugoslav self-management …
“Going Back or Moving Forward” & “Speech to the 8th CPSU(B) Congress” by N. Osinsky
Translations by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Mark Alexandrovich and Renato Flores. Osinsky is the pseudonym of old Bolshevik Valerian Valerianovich Obolensky. Born in 1887, Osinsky …
Radio Free Punjab
Rudy is joined by Jasdeep and Sangeet to talk about the recent farmers protests going on in Northern India, especially around the regions of Punjab …
Christianity and the Revolutionary Origins of the Jesus Movement
Lydia Apolinar, Alexander Gallus, and Ryan Tool pay tribute to the revolutionary and plebeian origins of Christianity. A total of 2 billion people will celebrate …
Attic Communists of the Netherlands
Parker and Alex join Emil Jacobs of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands to discuss the factional struggle and expulsion of the Communist Platform group. …
Driving in reverse: Prop 22 and AppBased Drivers’ resistance with Boston Independent Drivers Guild
Rudy is joined by Jonathan, Henry and Felipe from the Boston Independent Drivers Guild for a discussion on how gig drivers are resisting and organizing …
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Ben Grove lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Reading: Christian Cail. Cheer …
Revisiting the Lysenko Affair
In the second episode of our Soviet Science series, Donald, Djamil and Rudy sit down to contextualize an infamous episode of this story: The case …
Lenin and the “Class Point of View”: Looking at Chris Maisano’s “The Constitution and the Class Struggle”
Gil Schaeffer responds to Chris Maisano’s “The Constitution and the Class Struggle” to clarify the meaning of the “class point of view” in Lenin and …
The Tragedy of American Science with Cliff Conner
Alex and Rudy welcome historian Cliff Conner for a discussion of his recent book The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. They discuss …
Just Another Kautsky Fan: Understanding the Early Stalin
Interpreting Stalin’s fledgling revolutionary career through his later status as a brutal labor dictator obscures an early whole-hearted admiration for the works of Kautsky and …
Pull the Plugs? Labor, Power, and the Rise of Fossil Capitalism
Join the Cosmonaut Ecocrew as they discuss Andreas Malm’s piercing 2016 text Fossil Capital and attempt to dispel the myriad of myths that have been erected …
Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults
Destructive cults are usually considered the domain of religious movements. The Left, however, has its own track record of cults. Gus Breslauer sympathetically examines this …