How Empires Die
Rosa Janis argues for a theory of crisis and social decay that uses elements of Marx’s Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall as …
Letter: Orgone Commune manifesto
MANIFESTO FOR ORGONE COMMUNE NAMED “TRANSCEND” OF EXTRATERRESTRAIL EDUCATION AND RESAERCH: BEHOLD! THE REICHEAN-POSADIST SYNTHESIS! FOR MANY, THESE TWO METHODS OF DIALECTICAL ANALYSIS ARE NONCOMPLAMENTORY, …
Insurrection and Defeat in Bavaria, 1918–19 (Part 2)
Alexander Gallus concludes his saga on the Bavarian Soviet Republic and tries to draw political lessons from its failures. The leader of the Bavarian November …
From Workers’ Party to Workers’ Republic
Donald Parkinson takes a look at the history of the First, Second and Third Internationals, arguing for an approach to party-building and political strategy that …
Dispatch on Brazil
Amelia Davenport interviews Hugo Souza, a militant in the Brazilian left, on organizing, the right-wing Bolsonaro’s campaign that is taking aim at state power with …
Letter: On Cosmonaut’s vanguardism
Cosmonaut reeks of Leninist vanguardism and is just more of the same M-L crap in a new disguise. I can guarantee the writers at Cosmonaut do …
Missing Victory? Blanqui and the Paris Commune
Louis August Blanqui was a key revolutionary leader in the French Socialist movement. Yet when the Paris Commune erupted in 1871, Blanqui was in prison, …
The USSR’s Founding Mother
M.A. Iasilli on what Bolshevik militant Nadezhda Krupskaya can teach us about education and labor. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Since researching the stages of national development …
Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman’s ‘Direct Action’
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman’s Direct Action, a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left …
How to Play with Fire: Electoral Politics in the Heart of Empire
Ira Pollock examines the difficulties of left electoral strategy regarding the question of imperialism and affirms the importance of upholding strong anti-imperialist principles in electoral …
Conciliation and Insurrection in Bavaria 1918–19 (Part 1)
What political lessons can be learned from the failed Bavarian Soviet Republic? Alexander Gallus takes a deep dive into the history of this famous moment …
Letter: Comments on “Where Does Power Come From?”
(In response to ‘Where Does Power Come From?‘) Generally I really liked the article. It was a unique read and one which displayed views which …
Letter: Comments on “Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century”
I found the most recent article on the question of nationalities superior to the take of any ultra-lefts but still the victim of a certain …
Historical Narratives of the Red Terror
Donald Parkinson dives into the historiography of the Russian Revolution and argues that the Red Terror was not an ideological outgrowth of communist ideals. Rather, …