The US Proxy War in Ukraine and Socialist Anti-War Strategy
Matthew Strupp argues that revolutionary defeatism, not capitulation to imperialist war aims, must guide the response of the US Left to the Ukraine War. The …
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The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party with Matt Rothwell
Matt and Rudy join Matt Rothwell from the People’s History of Ideas podcast for a discussion on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on its 100th …
The Founding of the Haitian Communist Party
Translation and introduction by Matthew Strupp. The following text is a translation of sections from Schematic Analysis 1932-1934, the founding document of the original Haitian …
Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The “Three-Line Struggle” in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward
Matthew Strupp examines economic debates in China during the leadup to the Great Leap Forward and assesses comparisons made between Mao and Bukharin. Reading: Cliff Connolly. …
Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John Bellamy Foster’s seminal book Marx’s Ecology on its twentieth anniversary. Join Niko, Ian, Matthew, and …
Christopher Caudwell and the Crisis in Physics: A Discussion
To continue our series on the relation of Marxism to science, we read and discussed Christopher Caudwell’s Crisis in Physics. Join Donald, Matthew, Rudy, and …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
Gracchus Babeuf: From Jacobin to Communist
Matthew Strupp looks at the transformation of the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf from Feudiste to Jacobin to one of the first Revolutionary Communists. “The French …