Letter: Subject-less Marxism, A Reply to Kolya Ludwig
According to Kolya Ludwig’s letter “Retreating from the Subject,” my critique of Slavoj Žižek dispenses with his “political conclusions without addressing the deeper problem of …
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The Problem of Theory and Practice on the Left
Ayo Awujoola delineates the relationship between theory and practice, affirming Marxism as the key to the contemporary left’s ability to merge these elements into a …
Who Are the Workers, and Why Does it Matter?
Gary Levi responds to Joshua Lew McDermott’s “Two Myths About the Working Class,” arguing against dogmatist conceptions and articulating the conditions of ongoing class development. Indra …
Letter: Regarding MUG and the Democratic Republic
My thanks to Joseph P. for his intelligent reply to my article “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” …
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 …
Marxist Unity Group Debate On The “Democratic Republic”
The following three short articles by Luke Pickrell, Edward Varda, and Gil Schaeffer represent a recent debate on the democratic republic, political agitation, the minimum-maximum …
Letter: On Cosmonaut’s Supposed “Un-Marxism”
Comrades V. and Ashlar have successfully refuted much of comrade Lazare’s response to Cosmonaut’s editorial of October 15th. The following takes issue with something Lazare …
Letter: Lain’s Pessimism
While I can sympathize with the sense of urgency contained in comrade Lain’s recent letter to Cosmonaut, I must agree with comrade Villarreal’s assessment of …
Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
Nicolas D Villarreal tackles the question of artificial intelligence from a Marxist perspective, arguing against both utopian and dystopian prophecies regarding the emergence of these …
Why Socialism?
Amanda Levi of the Polish organization Akcja Socjalistyczna and Jan Żelazny put forward their conception of a socialist society. If you ask the average disengaged …
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx’s critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx’s offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. …
For a 21st Century Marxism
Steve Bloom considers what is living and what is dead in the corpus of Marxism with the intention of forging an adequate revolutionary theory for …
Karl Marx and Radical Indigenous Critiques of Capitalism
Nodrada explores the tensions and resonances between Marxism and Indigenous thought, putting the writings of Native theorists such as Vine Deloria Jr., Luther Standing Bear, …
Letter: Response to Dan Lazare
The way in which Marxists in the US understand our own history, especially the period of the American Revolution and early republic, has been underdeveloped …