The Abolitionist Dirty Break
Abolitionists waged war on the two party oligarchy. Ben Grove suggests we can learn from their forgotten triumph. It’s looming before us: the dark road …
Electoral strategy
Towards a Marxist Stance on Electoralism
Assessing the foundational Marxist canon and the contemporary US landscape, Bluebird argues for strategic participation in Bourgeois elections to advance a revolutionary agenda and the …
Why Are They Like This?
With the 2024 elections in sight, Noah Emke argues that Democrats will always choose right-wing capital over left-wing workers, making the fight against Democratic fascist-enabling …
Letter: Let’s Vote For Nobody
Movements of popular discontent often manifest around anti-establishment underdog presidential campaigns. In the United States, these have resulted in the successful elections of Bill Clinton …
Letter: The Dirty Break is the Truly Realistic Strategy
In “A Realistic Partyist Strategy: Electoral Strategy and Organized Labor,” Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of Red Labor DSA call for a ‘clean break’ with …
Tribunes of the People
Ben Grove defends the ‘Tribunes of the People’ resolution promoted by the Marxist Unity Slate for the upcoming 2021 DSA convention, arguing that the Socialist …
Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz
Parker and Peter join August Nimtz, the author of Lenin’s Electoral Strategy (now reprinted as The Ballot, The Streets– or Both) to discuss how Lenin …
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 …
Debating Electoral Strategy in the Comintern, 1920: The Bulgarian Situation
Reviewing the debates over electoral strategy at the Second Congress of the Comintern, Donald Parkinson reviews the strategies of the Bulgarian Communist Party and their …