The Wars of Reconstruction with Douglas Egerton
Luke joins Douglas Egerton, author of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era, for a conversation about an epoch-defining …
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Race and Socialism: ‘People of Color’ and a ‘New’ Political Re-Alignment
Sudip Bhattacharya analyzes the multiracial voting bloc that has coalesced behind the Democratic Party under the umbrella term ‘People of Color,’ arguing that this coalition, …
Challenging the White Blindspot
Noel Ignatiev dedicated his life to challenging white supremacy, taking aim at the very idea of the white race as a positive community or identity. …
COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Is the current legal definition of genocide useful for Marxists? Alyson Escalante unpacks the history behind the concept as it is currently understood and argues …
Addiction Is Not a Crime
Beyond failing at preventing the ills of addiction, the War of Drugs has served as a war on those dispossessed by capitalism. Billy Anania argues …
Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense
Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott …
Food, Capitalism and the Necessity of a Socialist Program
Capitalist food production is based on ecological destruction, imperialism, inhumane labor practices, and the degradation of human health. A socialist program that guarantees healthy food …
The Dialectic of Assimilation
How have Jews in the US have gone from an unwelcome immigrant group prone to left-wing radicalism to Zionists and beneficiaries of whiteness? Lane Silberstein …
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter’s April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Normally we do not respond to letters …
The Family is Dead, Long Live the Family
With family abolition a controversial topic in the current-day leftist discourse, Alyson Escalante argues for a more nuanced and sensitive approach to the topic by …
Remembering Noel Ignatiev
Gus Breslauer commemorates Noel Ignatiev, a communist and race abolitionist who died this month while leaving behind a legacy that should serve as an inspiration …
Reparations and Self-Determination: Loosening the Black-Belt
Renato Flores argues for self-determination and reparations for Black Americans as a key part of the revolutionary struggle in the USA. Reading: Robert Fish. I …
Early American Socialism and the Poverty of Colorblind Marxism
The history of early American Marxism is one of a failed colorblind politics that was incapable of organizing the proletariat in post-Reconstruction United States, argues …