Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates: A Discussion
Christian and Donald sit down for a discussion on Moshe Lewin’s 1974 tome Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates. They discuss Bukharin, the Left Opposition, …
Between Friend and Foe: The Democratic Party Primary and the Future of the Empire
Rosa Janis analyzes the Democratic Party Primary election as the symptoms of a dying empire that couldn’t die quite soon enough. With the Democratic Party …
The Need for Organizations that Organize
Ben Reynolds responds to Chris Koch’s The Need for Agitational Organizations. In a recent article titled ‘The Need for Agitational Organization’ Chris Koch argues that …
The Need for Agitational Organizations
Chris Koch argues that the current ailments of the modern left are a product of its class composition. To escape this predicament we must master …
Invasion: A Story of Anti-Colonial Resistance
Medway Baker reviews and contextualizes a short documentary on struggles of the Wet’suwet’en against the modern Canadian state. On February 6, the Canadian state’s police …
The African Blood Brotherhood and the Origins of Black Communism in the United States
Ian Szabo writes on the history of the African Blood Brotherhood as part of a broader tradition of black liberation that merged with International Communism …
“Taylor’s System and Organization” by Nadezhda Krupskaya
Translation by Mark Alexandrovich, introduction by Renato Flores. Nadezhda Krupskaya is unfairly remembered by the identity of her husband. A glance at her page in …
Economic Circulations: Blood-Based Systems of Value in Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star
Virginia L. Conn discusses the nature of blood exchange as a basis for collectivism in Alexander Bogdanov sci-fi masterpiece Red Star. IN his pre-revolutionary novel …
Taking Stock: Electoralism vs The Capitalist Arsenal
In Part Two of his analysis of strategy for the modern-day left Hank Beecher takes a look at three recent case studies and tries to …
Beyond Denial and Abstinence: How Climate Change Can Bring Us A Better World
Colin Drumm’s “Beyond Denial and Abstinence” argues that we should define economic growth in terms of meeting human needs, as opposed to the prevailing definition …
Fragment on War, National Questions and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Original article can be found here. Introduction It has long become a truism that Marxism failed to grasp the …
The Origin of the Split and the Reconstruction of Unity by Karl Kilbom
Introduction and translation by Tom Anderson. Original article can be found here. The following text was written by Karl Kilbom in 1938 after he had …
On Hasidic Jews, Anti-Semitism and Non-Profits
In light of recent antisemitic attacks, Lane Silberstein gives perspective on political divisions and class contradictions within the Jewish community, particularly Hasidic Jews. Amid the …
Knowledge: Power and Emancipation
Renato Flores discusses the privatization of scientific knowledge and examines efforts of revolutionary movements to democratize this knowledge to help develop a communist approach to …