Letter: Killing Marx on the Steps of Congress
Friends, It requires some mighty fine bait to lure a relatively quiet Marxist like myself out of my supposed ideological cave, but it seems that …
Letter: Why There Will be no Civil War in the USA
On the 24th of January, Governor Abbot of Texas issued an inflammatory statement mobilizing the National Guard to restrict migrants from entering the country, invoking …
On Capitalism and Class Rule: Moving Beyond the “PMC Debate”
Using recent debates over the role of the professional managerial class as a foil, Foppe de Haan argues that in order for the communist movement …
Letter: The Barbarism is Already Here
This letter was written in response to Seth Baker’s letter, “Barbarism is the Biggest Concern for the 2024 Elections” which you can read here. For …
Letter: Barbarism Is the Biggest Concern for the 2024 Elections
For a long time, a phrase on the left has been socialism or barbarism. Sadly, as we look towards the presidential election, socialism doesn’t seem …
Marx, Faraday, and the Spectral Objectivity of Value
What can Victorian table-turning tell us about Marx’s theory of value? Ian Wright investigates. The “Gypsy” Table In the early 1980s, my grandparents lived in …
Letter: On Lazare’s Mischaracterization of the Gaza Crisis
Lazare’s most recent letter, being a response to a response, et cetera, is somewhat disjointed, and any attempt to follow its own train of logic …
Seeds of Power: The Global Food System and The Green Revolution with Raj Patel
Rudy joins Raj Patel for a discussion on the global food system. We discuss how food serves as a powerful educational tool, the paradox of …
End of the Line
Javier Clark illustrates the contemporary social production of “non-subjects” and the conditions under which they evade traditional revolutionary formulae. Not even a dry statistic can …
Letter: Some Schemes Are Good
Comrade Bloom’s “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the dictatorship of the proletariat” makes the argument that the Marxist Unity Group has a …
Monotheism and Struggle: The Story of Iraqi Insurgency (2003-04)
In the first of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar surveys the history of Iraqi Insurgency from 1990 to 2004. Author’s Note: Page numbers in each …
Captives: the History of Rikers Island and New York City with Jarrod Shanahan
Isaac and Jack join Jarrod Shanahan, an activist, educator, and the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage, for a wide-ranging …
Sean O’Brien’s Pro-Business Unionism
Edgar Esquivel tells the story of how Sean O’Brien failed to end the Teamsters’ love affair with UPS. On July 25th, in an unprecedented turn …
Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought with Bruno Leipold
Donald and Luke talk with Bruno Leipold about his forthcoming book, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Bruno …