Letter: Some Schemes Are Good
Comrade Bloom’s “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the dictatorship of the proletariat” makes the argument that the Marxist Unity Group has a …
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Constructive Criticism: The Dialectics of Unity & Struggle
Jean, Jess, Annie and Rudy sit down to discuss Gracie Lyons’ Constructive Criticism: A Handbook based on their organizing experiences. They discuss the events that …
Socialism of the Oppressed: The Stakes of the Bowman Affair
Jean Allen and Marisa Miale, authors of For An Internationalist DSA, sketch out a strategy for building a left opposition committed to electoral discipline and …
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management. Introduction In comrade Davenport’s Organizing For Power, she notes a central problem with …
Materialist History or Critical History: A Reply to Jean Allen
Amelia Davenport responds to Jean Allen’s A Critical History of Management Thought, continuing the debate on scientific management. Before diving into the substance of this …
A Critical History of Management Thought
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 …
What’s At Stake in the Democratic Socialists of America?
Jean Allen discusses the factional infighting in the DSA and it what it says about the organization at large. On Friday February 8 the steering …
Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of ‘Inventing the Future’
Jean Allen reviews Srnicek & Williams’ ‘Inventing the Future’, which calls for an intellectual counter-hegemony to neoliberalism. Does this proposal for counter-hegemonic institutions really put …
Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman’s ‘Direct Action’
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman’s Direct Action, a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left …