In Review: Jeff Schuhrke’s ‘Blue Collar Empire’
Henry De Groot reviews Jeff Schuhrke’s new book ‘Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade’ and argues that, although Schuhrke …
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The Firm Ground of History and the Plateau of Politics
Luke Pickrell offers his latest polemic in the ongoing debate with Henry DeGroot around Marxist Unity Group’s call for a Democratic Republic. Leonid Aleksandrovich Golub, …
In Defense of Bolshevism: Hal Draper and the Spectre of the Socialist Petty Bourgeoisie
Henry De Groot argues that the ideas of Hal Draper, influential throughout the US left, are an obstacle to socialist labor strategy. DSA members have …
Dueling Slogans
Henry De Groot argues against the “ultra-political” tendency that forefronts agitation for the democratic republic. On Absurdity I am grateful to Luke Pickrell’s engagement (“The …
The Slogan of Our Time
Talking about socialism in the abstract is not enough, argues Luke Pickrell. We need a roadmap, and the slogan of the Democratic Republic shows the …
Letter: Words Won’t Slay The Hydra of Capitalism
56 citations into Luke Pickrell’s article Marxism and the Democratic Republic and I am still scratching my head. MUG has done a fantastic job of …
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 …