Disarming the Magic Bullet
Renato Flores responds to Cam W‘s argument for Maoism and the mass line. Reading: Gabriel Palcic. Global warming is progressing. Millions are going hungry and …
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US Constitution: Hiding in Plain Sight
Daniel Lazare writes on the US Constitution, its inherent contradictions, and why socialists should oppose it. In order to theorize the United States, socialists must …
Beyond Work? The Shortcomings of Post-Work Politics
Mikael Lyngaas argues that post-work theorists ranging from Bob Black to Srnicek and Williams are utopian socialism for the current era. Reading: Sam Wiles. In 1845, Karl …
The Dialectic of Assimilation
How have Jews in the US have gone from an unwelcome immigrant group prone to left-wing radicalism to Zionists and beneficiaries of whiteness? Lane Silberstein …
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 …
For the Unity of Marxists with the Dispossessed: The Bolsheviks and the State, 1912-1917
A reply by Medway Baker to Sophia Burns’ article For the Unity of Marxists, or the Unity of the Dispossessed?. In a previous article, Comrade …
Neither Intersectionality nor Economism: For a Genuine Class Politics
Neither a politics of identity informed by theories of intersectionality nor reductive economistic readings of Marxism are adequate for a modern socialist project, argues Donald …
More Acid Than Communism
Contrary to certain advocates of “Acid Communism”, P.H. Higgins argues that a turn towards counter-culture, consciousness-raising, and psychedelic drugs are not a means to building …
Why We Still Need Pitchforks: A Critique of the Politics of Nora Belrose
Revolution is outdated and no longer a realistic means to achieve socialism according to Nora Belrose, a DSA member who writes a popular blog. Is …
Communists and the National Question in the 21st Century
Stani Bjegunac takes a look at different approaches to the national question by historical communists and how we may approach issues of national oppression in …
The Future is the Past: The Failure of Accelerationism
Rosa Janis takes on all the different tendencies of the intellectual fad of ‘Accelerationism’ and reveals the poverty of their visions of a better future …