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Where Does Power Come From?
Amelia Davenport, September 3, 2018
What is power and how do we build it? Amelia Davenport argues that power must be built through the organization of mass communist institutions independent of the state. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Dispatch on Brazil
Amelia Davenport, October 14, 2018
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 a reactionary neo-liberal agenda, and advice for leftists in the USA. Read Article.
Organizing the Class: Interview with Two Members of Target Workers Unite
Amelia Davenport, August 15, 2019
Interviews by Amelia Davenport. Check out Target Workers Unite here. Read Article.
"Socially Organized Society: Socialist Society" by Alexander Bogdanov
Amelia Davenport, October 25, 2019
Introduction by Amelia Davenport. From A Short Course of Economic Science. Read Article.
Stealing Fire From the Gods: Interview with Amelia Davenport
Amelia Davenport, November 24, 2019
Organizing for Power: Stealing Fire From the Gods
Amelia Davenport, November 19, 2019
Amelia Davenport argues for leftist organizers to reclaim the ideas of Taylor's Scientific Management, making a broader argument for the relevance of cybernetics, cultural revolution in the workers' movement, and a Promethean vision of socialism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Listen to an interview with the author here. Read Article.
A Critical History of Management Thought
Jean Allen, May 8, 2020
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan Witzel’s A History Of Management Thought. Read Article.
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
Amelia Davenport, May 22, 2020
Amelia Davenport argues for the relevance of cybernetics to the project of developing a communism that transcends the modernist project. Read Article.
Walter Polakov and the Hidden History of Socialist Scientific Management
Amelia Davenport, November 10, 2020
Walter Polakov had a combined passion for two seemingly contradictory ideas: scientific management and socialism. How did these two combine? Amelia Davenport interviews Diana Kelly, author of The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov to bring light to this little known part of US history. Read Article.
Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport, January 6, 2021
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen's A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Read Article.