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On Women As A Class: Materialist Feminism and Mass Struggle
Alyson Escalante, December 4, 2018
The relationship between gender and capital is complex, but a materialist approach to both requires us to recognize the centrality of proletarian revolution for the liberation of women, writes Alyson Escalante. Read Article.
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
Alyson Escalante, March 11, 2020
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by looking at the works of Karl Marx and Alexandra Kollontai while exploring the relation of colonialism to the family. Reading: Sam Wiles. Read Article.
COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Alyson Escalante, September 4, 2021
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 that a Marxist understanding of genocide must move beyond legalistic bourgeois definitions that rely on intent and look at the realities of systemic dispossession and extermination. Read Article.